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Introduction

This module begins with photography and progresses to the end of the nineteenth century, culminating with the styles of Post-Impressionism. The Industrial Revolution and the invention of photography demonstrate a large impact on the directions of visual thinking as evidenced in the works form this time. As you read through this module, proceed to make comparisons between the concepts of photography and its relation to traditional fine arts.

Photography

The photographic impress was invented somewhere earlier the centre of the 19th century. In 1826, Joseph Niépce successfully fabricated permanent pictures of a cityscape from his window using a camera obscura and a light-sensitive metallic plate. Soon thereafter, in 1839, Louis JM Daguerre and Henry Fox Talbot announced the first photographic processes. The photographic process captured light, the very physical element that relates to our visual senses, and chemically replicated the image produced onto a surface. These methods of photographic production progressed rapidly equally one photographer after another filed patents to copyright their processes.

A debate grew inside the creative world, especially the earth of portraiture, as to the implications of these processes in relation to fine art. Could photographs exist used for sketch references? What was the worth of a painting of life when a photographic camera could simply capture the image? Artists throughout the nineteenth century, and even to today, debated the position of photography in art and what "real" meant in relation to fine art.

Eugène Durieu and Eugène DelacroixDraped Model, 1854

Eugène Durieu and Eugène Delacroix's partnership demonstrates the classicism of early photography and the relationship between painters and photographers at the fourth dimension. The lighting on the model creates a mood and the way the cloth is draped reminds the viewer of classical fine art. As photographs required the shutter to be open for long periods of time, models were required to concur withal just as they would when posing for a painter, limiting the applications of early photographs.

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1789-1851)

Louis-Jacques-Mandé DaguerreStill Life in Studio, 1837

Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre patented the Daguerreotype process, which was one of the two first processes for photographic press, the other existence the Calotype. The Daguerrotype requires latent development, bringing out the image through a chemical process and fixing the image to a surface.Still Life in Studio was one of the commencement successful images from Daguerre'due south process.  Given the process, Daguerre would take needed the objects to residuum in place for a long period of time then that the image would be fixed to the plate. But the still life is also a typical fine art subject matter; its appearance in early photography further evidences  the fact that from its beginning evolution, photography was conceived in relation to art, and not simply as a new engineering science .

Josiah Johnson Hawes and Albert Sands Southworth

Josiah Johnson Hawes and Albert Sands SouthworthEarly on Performance Under Ether, 1847

Southworth and Hawes were an American photographic crew. They ran a daguerreotype studio in Boston that specialized in portraiture. They also took the camera to places of interest in order to tape.Early Functioning under Ether continues the tradition of documenting the medical practices of the day. The photo recalls before portraits by Rembrandt. The epitome blurs are apparent from slight motion due to long exposures.

William Henry Fob Talbot (1800-1877)

William Henry Play a joke on TalbotThe Pencil of Nature, 1844

In 1839, William Henry Fox Talbot presented his "photogenic drawings" to the Purple Institution of London. He was the first photographer to make negative images past using sensitized paper. With a second sheet, he would create the positive images by exposing through the first sheet, allowing for multiple positive prints to be produced from a single photographic negative. His work and then influenced the Calotype, but, due to the expense from the heavy patents placed on the media, most other photographers elected to stick with Daguerrotypes for many years.

Nadar (1820-1910)

Henri DaumierNadar Raising Photography to the Superlative of Art, 1862

Nadar Raising Photography to the Superlative of Fine art is an engraving by Daumier prompted by a court conclusion that acknowledged that photography was indeed an art and entitled to legal protection under copyright. The image as well shows Nadar's personal passion for ballooning, which often influenced his compositional perspectives and distinguished his piece of work from that of his contemporaries. Nadar changed his name for his career, taking on a total artistic persona.

NadarEugène Delacroix, 1855

Nadar fabricated many portraits trying to catch the essence of the private. His portrait of Eugène Delacroix shows the presence of the artist. His photography further demonstrates an incredible range of tones past using drinking glass negatives and an Albumen printing newspaper.

Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879)

Julia Margaret CameronOphelia Study no two, 1867

Julia Margaret Cameron became ane of the most famous portrait photographers of Victorian England. She produced portraits of many famous people and also many women.Ophelia Study no twocreates a theme much like painting. The blurred focus adds to the dream-like quality. As she sometimes sought to photographically produce fictional characters, she tried to go along a visual distance from the idea of exact reality.

Timothy O'Sullivan and Alexander Gardner

Timothy O'Sullivan and Alexander GardnerA Harvest of Expiry, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1863

Timothy O'Sullivan and Alexander Gardner documented the American Ceremonious State of war.A Harvest of Death demonstrates the documentary effect of photography equally it creates a narrative regarding the high cost of the war in casualties. Though these photographs claim a documentary theme, the bodies were composed for most dramatic impact. Photographers and newspapers quickly found that photography was a more effective medium than the newsprint engravings used at the time.

Modernism

The nineteenth century was filled with industrialism and increased economical and political interaction worldwide. This produced an increased religion in science. There was too an astute sense of Western cultures' lack of fixity or permanence due to the rapid expansion, faster modes of transportation, and increased social mobility. Too during this fourth dimension, Charles Darwin put forth his ideas on evolution and Karl Marx emphasized the nature of the continuing sequence of conflicts and resolutions forming a shifting reality.

The creative direction referred to equally modernism presently developed out of this changing world. Modernism  refers to the many stylistic movements in fine art from the middle nineteenth century until the beginnings of the mail service modern move in the later twentieth century.Modernism in art thus coincides with the advent of what we call modernity, which is associated with the understanding of the impermanence of the world. Artists in catamenia were enlightened of the relationship between their fine art and those of previous generations. Art was produced to call attending to fine art, the flat surface of canvas, the shape of the back up, the properties of the media. Modern artists accustomed their precedents, just rebelled against the Academies that focused on the tradition of art based on previous generations rather than creating new and unique visions. Many modern artists thus took buying of the term avant-garde, a French military term referring to the front line in battle. Such artists thus associated themselves with those who push frontward, taking risks and breaking new ground.

Realism

The first modern stylistic turn was Realism, developed in the mid-19th century past Gustave Courbet. Realism is not a defined concept, but deals with the defining of the world effectually the artist. Realists argued that only the things of one's own time, what people tin encounter for themselves, are "real." Through realism, subjects that were one time non regarded as important enough to be painted became the focus of attention. Realists focused on experiences and sights of everyday gimmicky life and disapproved of historical and fictional subjects on the grounds that they were not real and visible. They also called attention to the painted surface, the existent nature of the medium, the fact that a painting is a painting.

Gustave Courbet (1819-1877)

To be able to translate the customs, ideas, and appearances of my time equally I see them – in a give-and-take, to create a living fine art – this has been my aim… The fine art of painting tin consist only in the representation of objects visible and tangible to the painter… who must utilize his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of the period in which he lives… I hold as well that the painting is essentially concrete fine art, and can consist simply of the representation of things both real and existing… an abstract object, invisible or non existent does non belong in the domain of painting… show me an angel, and I'll paint one.~Gustave Courbet (Kleiner ?)

The Rock Breakers, 1849

Courbet'sThe Stone Breakers is a directly forward painting demonstrating the arduous labor of the rural working class. The two figures are depicted in all their banal reality: apparel worn and tearing, bodies supporting the tools and materials of their job. The painting likewise held a symbolic association to the workers who rebelled against the bourgeois leaders of the newly formed 2nd republic.

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Gustave CourbetBurial at Ornans, 1849

Courbet was rejected from the Expositi on Universelle of 1855 Salon afterwards submitting fourteen paintings, including the monumentalBurial at Ornans. He rebelled by setting up his own exhibition, the Pavilion of Realism, just outside the grounds, where he showed his art on his terms. Burial at Ornans depicts a funeral in a bleak landscape. It contains many of the conventions of historical painting, only depicts the mutual people of his rural hometown of Ornans. The painting also assumes the monumental calibration of traditional history painting as it measures x anxiety past twenty-two feet. Courbet's depiction of a lowly rural community partaking in what was at the time a bourgeois rite was shocking to the Parisian audience for this picture, and reflected Courbet's lifelong exercise of prodding at social tensions.

Francois Millet (1814-1878)

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Francois MilletThe Gleaners, 1857

Millet was a painter of the Barbizon Schoolhouse, which focused on pictures of the woods and the countryside. Unlike most Barbizon painters, however, Millet took as his subjects everyday people in their workaday globe.The Gleaners depicts the lowest members of the peasant society. Gleaners were people allowed on the fields to take the leftovers after harvesting the grains. Like Courbet, Millet describes monumental characters against an empty field and broad heaven, elevating the figures thematically. The painting however is placidity and sentimental unlike Courbet'south work. Millet seems to speak to the ideas of social equality and political expression that was not approved of by many viewers.

Honoré Daumier (1808-1879)

With the many revolutions, too bold a statement in the press, literature or art could imprison a person. Honoré Daumier emerged as a defender of the urban working classes and confronted authority with social criticism. He produced many prints which could exist reproduced and distributed. He too did many satirical lithographs for a liberal readership.

Honoré DaumierRue Transonain, 1834

Daumier'due south lithographRue Transonian is a narrative of an barbarism. On a street in Lyon, an unknown sniper had killed a ceremonious guard member during a demonstration. The government responded by going into the building from which they believed the shot had been fired and massacred all the inhabitants. Daumier's print depicts the backwash with factualness rather than drama, like to that of a photograph and also like to the previous works by Goya.

Honoré DaumierThe Third-Grade Wagon, 1862

Tertiary Class Carriage is another work by Daumier. Though unfinished, the theme is of a grimy carriage. It depicts a glimpse into the reality of the lower class going near ordinary life. The painting is highly influenced by photography in its ways of capturing reality.

Marie-Rosalie Bonheur (1822-1899)

Marie-Rosalie (Rosa) Bonheur was one of the almost celebrated women artists of the 19th century. She was considered a naturalist with a passion for accurateness in painting. She resisted depicting the problematic social and political situations and turned to the creature world, spending long hours studying anatomy from carcasses in slaughterhouses.

Marie-Rosalie BonheurThe Horse Fair, 1853-55

The Horse Fair is a panoramic composition demonstrating her ability of observation from life and the ability of the horses beingness depicted. Pulling from preceding styles, in that location is dramatic lighting and a flowing sky. The painting is still somewhat heroic, merely depicts a scene that is actually quite ordinary.

Winslow Homer (1836-1910)

Winslow HomerThe Veteran in a New Field, 1865

Winslow Homer was an American who worked every bit an artist-reporter for Harper's Weekly during the Ceremonious War.The Veteran in a New Field is a commentary on the aftermath of the Civil War. The uniform and canteen are carelessly thrown on the basis as he assumes his duties. His duties have shifted, however, from harvesting men to harvesting wheat. This demonstrates the transition from state of war to peace. It is meant to reinforce the perception of the state's greatness in the fact that they could make such transitions. The reaper is further extended as a symbol of decease every bit he uses a single bladed scythe rather than the cradled scythes that were typically used.

Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)

Thomas Eakins was dedicated to showing the realities of human experience. He studied medical anatomy and it strongly influenced his work and teaching at the Philadelphia Academy of Art. He painted things as he saw them rather than in whatever ideal or emotional way, frequently leaving his portraits with a lifeless or bored feeling.

Thomas EakinsThe Gross Clinic, 1875

The Gross Clinic was rejected from a show where they were looking for more ideal works in honor of the centennial of American Independence. Much like Rembrandt's painting,The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, Doctor Gross lectures about the operation he is doing on the homo's leg. The patient's mother covers her face up and looks away from the scene as the just emotive quality in the piece of work. Eakins said of this work, "It is a picture that even strong men detect difficult to look at long, if they can expect at it at all (Kleiner ?)."

Eakins believed that knowledge was a prerequisite to art. He thus created his images with observations of anatomy, and perspective. He as well worked with Eadweard Muybridge in his studies on motion.

Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904)

Eadweard MuybridgeHorse Galloping, 1878

Eadweard Muybridge formed an international reputation for his studies of motility.Horse Galloping became a part of a legendary story that started this career. Two gentlemen were debating over the motility of a horse galloping and Muybridge was employed to prove the theory. He invented a arrangement of cameras to capture the horse in motion, assuasive them to see how the horse's legs motion as it gallops.

Muybridge'southward studies formed the beginnings of the movement moving-picture show. His photographs of the galloping horse were thrown into a loop through a Xoopraxiscope, where a series of images are placed on a cycle that, when spun, creates a sense of motion based on persistence of vision. Muybridge thus earned his place in both scientific discipline and fine art with such studies.

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)

John Vocaliser SargentThe Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, 1882

In contrast to the bored looking portraits of Eakins, John Singer Sargent'southward portraits demonstrate compositional authority and emotive affect with a looser, more dashing realist style. His paintings give the illusion of quickness and have a liveliness much in the vain of Velasquez. In his painting,The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, the girls all appear in the hall. The painting seems to be an informal narrative depicting the reality of what daily life would have been like, with a sense of spontaneity. The girls demonstrate their young innocence and the self consciousness of girls of that age.

Edouard Manet (1832-1883)

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Edouard ManetTiffin on the Grass, 1863

Edouard Manet demonstrated a strong commitment to realist ideas but drew on the past for his themes. InDejeuner on the Grass, Manet depicts a nude women and two clothed men enjoying a picnic, with another woman stooping in a pond or river in the background. Such a scene combining nude women with clothed men was not uncommon in past fine art, where the women represented allegorical figures, goddesses, or muses, and coexisted in scenes with historical or mythological figures. But here, the men are in contemporary dress and the woman is conspicuously a modern adult female, and she looks to the viewer unabashed. Further, the depiction of space is deliberately complicated: the figures appear virtually as two-dimensional cutouts confronting a apartment backdrop, rather than as fully modeled forms in a believable infinite.

The painting makes references to history painting, portraiture, pastoral scenes, religious allegory, etc. Specifically the scene alludes to Titian'sPastoral Symphony. The manner of rendering with a looser strokes also caught criticism as he emphasized the medium. Manet's piece of work thus takes a modernist plow equally he comments on history while emphasizing the nature of painting, the function of pigment to capture light, and the flatness of the painting surface.

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Edouard Manet,Olympia, 1863

Olympia was considered scandalous. The title refers to a typical "professional person" proper name of prostitutes. The nude besides meets the viewer'south eyes with indifference while a black maid presents flowers from a customer. Viewers were taken aback by the shamelessness and expect of defiance. The rough brush strokes and sharp shifts of tone were drastically different from the academic work which was widely accepted at the time, though the painting alludes to a long tradition of the female nude in painting and sculpture. The painting compositionally and thematically steals directly from some other of Titian's paintings,Venus of Urbino.

The Arts and Crafts Movement and the Pre-Raphaelites

Where the Realists were focused on pursuits of science and rational thought, some other camp of artists continued to rebel against the wholly rational in favor of the poetic and emotional. Looking back to the by, The Pre-Raphaelites looked to poesy and authors such as Shakespeare to influence their realistic illustrative paintings. Similarly, John Ruskin and William Morris began the Craft Movement. This movement was defended to bringing craft, artful sensibilities, and emotion back into a world where industrialization had sucked much of these qualities from the products that it produced. Their primary belief was that in paying attion to such qualities in objects, value is added. They similarly looked to the Medieval era and artifacts such as manuscript illumination as their inspiration.

John Everett Millais (1829-1896)

John Everett Millais founded a grouping of artists named The Pre-Raphaelite Alliance. These artists refused to exist limited to the contemporary scenes that Realists portrayed. They instead focused on fictional, historical and fanciful subjects with a pregnant degree of convincing illusion. They are thus considered visual poets of meticulous item.

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John Everett MillaisOphelia, 1852

Ophelia past Millais is considered one of the greatest Pre-Raphaelite pictures. Information technology was exhibited in the Exposition Universelle in 1855 where Courbet was rejected and prepare up his Pavilion of Realism. The theme is a subject from Shakespeare'sHamlet, and Shakespeare's works were often used as themes for these artists. Millais's painting displays the quote,

Her clothes spread broad,
And mermaidlike awhile they bore her up-
Which time she chanted snatches of erstwhile tunes,
Equally one incapable of her own distress.

The painting is thus visual reality in a poetic scene.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)

Dante Gabriel RossettiBeata Beatrix, 1863

Dante Gabriel Rossetti was known as both a painter and a poet. His numerous portraits of women portrayed an image of ethereal beauty and melded Victorian prettiness with sensual attraction.Beata Beatrix is a portrait of a literary effigy from Dante'southwardVita Nuova. The effigy overlooks Florence in a trance after existence mystically transported from earth to heaven. She served as a memorial to his wife who had died of an opium overdose shortly before he painted this picture show. The red dove is thus a messenger of love and death as information technology deposits a poppy into her hands. The painting is thus symbolic and poetic.

Gertrude Kasebier (1852-1934)

Gertrude KasebierBlessed Art Thou among Women, 1899

Photography could be manipulated by skilled photographers to be used to produce romantic effects and gave rise to a concept described equally Pictorialism. Gertrude Kasebier was an American woman who worked as a portrait painter and became famous for symbolic themes in photography. The title ofBlest Art One thousand Amongst Women refers to a phrase the affections Gabriel used in the New Testament to announce to the Virgin Mary that she would exist the mother of Jesus. The photograph thus draws a parallel between biblical and modern motherhood, every bit both mothers must protect and send forth their young. There is too a staged presence of calorie-free versus dark and a combination of an out-of-focus background with a sharp or almost-sharp foreground. Kasebier thus invests a scene from everyday life with a sense of the spiritual and the divine.

Impressionism

Impressionism is an artistic product of an industrialized, urbanized Paris. The stylistic motility deals with the realist concerns of timeliness, the changes in the globe, the idea of the transitory, the moving low-cal. The title of the movement was practical by a hostile critic in response to Claude Monet'sImpression: Sunrise in 1874. Impression is a term commonly practical to sketches. The Impressionists thus used the abbreviation of sketches and plein air painting to show speed and spontaneity, often with a lack of clarity. The speed is in directly comparison to the concepts of cameras in using pigment as a medium to capture light equally they saw information technology rather than in the studio.

Claude Monet (1840-1926)

Claude MonetImpression: Sunrise, 1874

The first Impressionist prove was in 1874, though at that time the artists simply referred to themselves as the Société anonyme, or the Anonymous Society. By the third show, the artists had adopted the term Impressionism to depict their work. In Claude Monet'southwardImpression: Sunrise, the brush strokes are conspicuously axiomatic. The painting, howevern is not a sketch but of a sketchy quality. Monet'southward painting farther demonstrates an interaction between the responses of what is seen and what is felt, both subjective and descriptive.

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Claude MonetSaint-Lazare Railroad train Station, 1877

Saint-Lazare Railroad train Staton shows the effects of urban evolution. The train station becomes a chief part of Parisian life. The painting demonstrates logs of energy and the application of paint attests to the energy of the moment, much like in the piece of work of JMW Turner.

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Claude MonetRouen Cathedral Series, 1894

Monet spent a couple of seasons in a studio across from the Rouen Cathedral in 1894 where he produced a serial of paintings of the façade. The paintings further demonstrate experiences of lite and color as he studies the light and not so much the class of the façade. The local color is normally modified past the qualities of low-cal in which it is seen. The shadows have color likewise modified by reflections or other conditions. In these paintings, Monet learned of the utilise of complementary colors to emphasize and intensify each other.

The Rouen canvases seemed blurry at close distances because of the lack of mixed pigments and choppy strokes fabricated up of pure, vibrant color. The critics claimed that they fired paint at their canvases with pistols. In them, notwithstanding, the chief idea was to forget the object in front end of them and its structures and paint what they were seeing. Monet painted some xl views of this church façade from nearly the same viewpoint at unlike times of the day or nether different weather conditions. He used calorie-free and color to attain a greater understanding of the appearance of form.

Gustave Caillebotte (1849-1893)

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Gustave CaillebotteParis: A Rainy Day, 1877

In that location was a redesigning of Paris that was begun in 1852 as the population rose to nigh one.5 million. The streets became wider to accommodate the flow of traffic and to relieve the overcrowded and unsanitary conditions of Paris'due south small medieval neighborhoods. In Gustave Caillebotte'sParis: A Rainy Day the image is not dissolved as with the other Impressionists that he showed with, but the informality of the composition and the cropping becomes of import. The painting is seemingly random in placement of figures, but there is a staged studio quality and structured composition again unlike the other Impressionists. For this reason, he was questioned by critics for the reasons he was showing with the others given that he could seemingly "describe." The painting withal captures an artist's "impression" of the urban city and still not a specific narrative or allegory equally the bookish painters were doing at the time.

Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)

Camille PissaroLa Place du Théâtre Français, 1898

Camille Pissarro inLa Place du Théâtre Français depicts a metropolis street similar to Caillebotte, just here records a panorama of dark against light from his window. He as well provides the sensation of a crowded Parisian square and paints it from a view from several stories above. The presence of fourth dimension is important equally it seemingly captures a random snapshot much like a camera. Pissarro demonstrates a deliberate casualness of the arrangement of figures. He often was noted for using photography to supplement piece of work straight from a model.

Hippolyte Jouvin, The Pont Neuf, Paris, 1860-1865

The photo above ofHippolyte Jouvin, The Pont Neuf, Paris is similar to many photos that were taken at the time for tourist amusement. Pissarro probably did not apply this detail paradigm but it shows much similarity. The epitome portrayed is an early example of an insert for stereoscopic glasses to give an effect of 3D.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)

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Pierre-Auguste RenoirLe Moulin de la Galette, 1876

Industrialization led to regimented schedules and many people found time for leisurely activities. Pierre-Auguste Renoir'sLe Moulin de la Galette depicts a pop Parisian dance hall. The painting shows a lively atmosphere dappled with sunlight and shade. The result of the fleeting light is of import to the concepts of the Impressionists. There is as well a continuity of space spreading from the picture show frame every bit suggested by the cropping of figures. This is a new compositional concept stressed by the photographic camera and its cropping of the natural globe in the capturing of its image. Where the classical is timeless, impressionism is momentary.

Edouard Manet (1832-1883)

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Edouard ManetA Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1882

Edouard Manet produced and showed along with the Impressionists equally well.A Bar at the Folies-Bergère displays a café with music-hall performances. Manet provides the viewer with a seemingly disinterested barmaid, but calls attention to the surface as he bends perspective and space. He forces the viewer to scrutinize the work and brand sense of the scene. The mirror backside the barmaid creates defoliation: are we seeing a woman in the back of the barmaid or a reflection? Who is the human being reflected in the mirror (is it us?), and where is he standing? Manet hither shows a radical break from the traditions of pictorial space and suggests that the artist has the ability to altar such space to suit his/her pictorial priorities.

Edgar Degas (1834-1917)

Edgar DegasBallet Rehearsal, 1874

Edgar Degas uses compositional devices to bring the viewer into the pictorial infinite. The wide expanse of bare floor in theforeground invites us to feel like nosotros are in the room. The frame cuts off the composition in interesting places -- cropping igures and architecture indescriminately. Figures are non centered, and diagonals drive the viewer around the composition between the positive and negative spaces. The floor plane is also tilted up slightly, emphasizing these diagonals influenced past "Japonisme," or the fascination with Japanese artifacts influencing western fine art. Degas's paintings of ballet rehearsals too describe his interest in single moments in time and his fascination with photography with the asymmetrical cropping of infinite.

Edgar DegasThe Tub, 1886

Degas demonstrates his mastery of line and form in drawings such every bitThe Tub. His pastel drawings focused on figures in rapid movements and informal situations. The drawings give an impression of arrested motility. The drawings besides show an exploration of the premises of painting and 2D surface and the angles of the composition. Degas is once again borrowing compositional devices from Japanese prints, including the birdseye view and the sharp geometry created by the cropped table.

Edgar DegasThe Little 14-Year-One-time Dancer, 1879-lxxx

Multi-talented, Degas too worked in sculpture, often wax given the speed of such production. Many of these accept been turned to bronze for collectors, justThe Little Fourteen-Yr-Old Dancer was originally displayed in its wax form, with flesh-similar coloring adding to its realism. Smaller than a real daughter, but yet insinuating reality, the sculpture stood in stark realistic contrast to the heroic bronzes and marble sculptures displayed at the fourth dimension. Degas dressed the sculpture in a existent fabric tutu and put a real ribbon in her hair, thus mixing illusionism (the girl made of wax or statuary) with reality (actually clothing and accessories). Critics abhorred the work for its realism, chiding it as "ugly," just the sculpture stands as a testament to the pursuit of realism that these "impressionists" were after.

Berthe Morisot (1841-1895)

Berthe MorisotVilla at the Seaside, 1874

The impressionists also welcomed several female person artists into their circle. The female artists escaped criticism and were said to have "sensibility, grace, and delicacy" associated with their femininity. Berthe Morisot painted many outdoor leisure activities and especially the seaside that had get a popular destination due to the availability by train. Her subjects and manner deal with impressionist concerns. Her paintings also demonstrate the plein air, or outdoor painting, and the lighting is typical of impressionist works as they looked to low-cal every bit regulatory of form.

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)

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Mary CassattThe Child's Bath, 1892

Another of the women working within the Impressionist movement, the American Mary Cassatt was greatly influenced greatly by Degas. She exhibited regularly with the Impressionists, but her subjects were limited due to personal restrictions of family unit. She principally depicted women and children. Her compositions besides oftentimes incorporated flattened patterning and compositional devices that call back Japanese art.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec became a pop artist for his poster designs. He produced a satirical edge based on his cocky-exiled nature because of his affliction due to polio and his still aristocratic name. His aristocratic proper name immune him to travel in high circles, rubbing elbows with the social elite. He had a fond interest in the night world of Paris.

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Henri de Tolouse-LautrecAt the Moulin Rouge, 1892-95

At the Moulin Rouge shows influences of Degas, the Japanese print, and photography. He stresses diagonals and odd colors every bit he exaggerated elements to add emphasis to the mask-similar faces. Unlike Renoir's image of solar day-time dances, there is an off-putting nature to these night-club scenes. Toulouse-Lautrec'southward design sense, seen in this painting and his graphic designs, is characterized by bold color and line and went on to accept a large impact on time to come generations and the Fine art Noveau style at the turn of the century. Toulouse-Lautrec also places himself in his scenes, the tiny man with a derby chapeau.

James Abbot McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

James Abbot McNeill Whistler was an American creative person who provided a mixture of some of the Impressionist concerns as well as his own artistic concepts. His painting were often subjects of gimmicky life and sensations of color. He had an involvement in creating harmonies paralleling music. He stated, "nature contains the elements, in color and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the artist is born to pick, and choose, and group with scientific discipline, these elements, that the result may be cute – as the musician gathers his notes and forms his chords, until he brings forth from anarchy glorious harmony (Kleiner ?)." In a motility toward emphasizing the painting and composition to be read in such an abstract, scientific way, he began calling his paintings "arrangements" or "nocturnes."

James Abbot McNiell WhistlerNocturne in Black and Gold (The Falling Rocket), 1875

Whistler was interested more in the atmospheric affects than the details of an actual scene in his painting,Nocturne in Black and Golden. The painting angered viewers and critic John Ruskin accused Whistler of "Flinging a pot of pigment in the public's face." Whistler sued Ruskin for libel and stated during the trial:

"It is a dark piece and represents the fireworks at Cremorne."
"Not a view of Cremorne?"
"If it were a view of Cremorne, information technology would certainly bring near nothing but disappointment on the part of the beholders. It is an artistic arrangement… it is as impossible for me to explicate to y'all the beauty of that picture as it would be for a musician to explain to y'all the beauty of a harmony in a particular piece of music if you have no ear for music."

Whistler won the case, but was awarded merely 1 farthing in damages and was required to pay the courtroom costs which bankrupted him. The example, withal, was a major accomplishment in terms of debating publicly aesthetic theory and the meaning of art.

Post-Impressionism

Past 1886 the Impressionists were considered serious artists. Notwithstanding many younger artists were concerned that Impressionism was neglecting too many traditional elements of the picture: line, pattern, form and color. A group of artists, now termed mail-impressionists, explored the expressive capabilities of formal elements or orientation.

Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)

Probably the best known of the mail service-impressionists, Vincent Van Gogh used color and distorted forms to express his emotions. He was the son of a Protestant pastor and his brother, Theo, was a major fine art collector and dealer, dealing in many of the Impressionists' artwork. Van Gogh's story has become i of legend as his professional and personal failures brought him to despair. He had suffered from epileptic seizures and turned to painting, which gave him a power to create and a reason for living. He himself wrote much about his artwork and procedure, stating, "instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I have before my optics, I use color more than arbitrarily and then as to express myself forcibly." Many of his concepts of artistic cosmos take led to modern day art therapy.

Van Gogh's expressive painting contains a signature brush stroke and thick, tactile property that is a counterpart to his expressive color schemes. He seemingly attacks his canvases with his slap-dash marking, producing his paintings at speed given that he produced hundreds of works within his concluding few years of life, often on meridian of paintings or the backs of canvases due to a limitation of materials.

Vincent Van GoghNight Café, 1888

Night Café was meant to convey an oppressive temper, "a place where i can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime." Van Gogh writes,

I have tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green. The room is claret read and dark yellow with a green billiard tabular array in the middle; there are iv citron-yellow lamps with a glow of orange and greenish. Everywhere there is a clash and dissimilarity of the most disparate reds and greens in the figures of the little sleeping hooligans, in the empty, dreary room, in violet and blue. The blood-red and the yellow-light-green of the billiard table, for instance, contrast with the soft, tender Louis XV dark-green of the counter, on which there is a pink nosegay. The white coat of the landlord, awake in a corner of that furnace, turns citron-yellow or pale luminous green (Kleiner ?).

The painting'south tilted perspective, oft employed by Van Gogh, places the viewer in an odd place in the painting. This is influenced highly by Japonisme, while his assuming colors set up Van Gogh apart from his contemporaries.

Vincent Van GoghStarry Night, 1889

Starry Night has get an iconic prototype. Van Gogh painted this picture from the asylum where he had committed himself, and completed it the year earlier his death. All visual objects in the painting are removed of form and expressed in a unique vision. The night dejection, swirling lines, and turbulent brush strokes suggest his anxiety and depression. He wrote of this painting, "Peradventure decease is no the hardest thing in a painter'due south life… Looking at the stars always makes me dream, as but as I dream over the blackness dots representing towns and villages on a map. Why, I inquire myself, shouldn't the shinning dots of the sky be as accessible as the black dots on the map of French republic? Just as we take the railroad train to get to Trascon or Rouen, we have death to reach a star (Kleiner ?)." He was thus contemplating death and transcendence, much in dissimilarity to how viewers often chronicle to the painting.

Paul Gaugin (1848-1903)

Paul Gaugin, an associate of Van Gogh, rejected objective representation in favor of subjective expression. He broke with impressionistic studies of closely contrasted hues because he believed color should exist expressive and the artist'southward power to determine colors in a painting was a seminal element of inventiveness. Professionally, he resigned from a brokerage concern and left his family in 1883 to devote his fourth dimension entirely to painting. He presently moved to Pont-Aven in the Brittany region, seeking to escape into emotion and brand paintings that rejected realism and impressionism.

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Paul GauginVision after the Sermon, or Jacob Wrestling with the Affections, 1888

Attracted to Brittany's unspoiled culture and the medieval catholic piety of the area, Gaugin immersed himself in their civilisation, creating paintings such asVision after the Sermon, or Jacob Wrestling with the Angel. He ignored the drastic changes that transformed the area during that time to a profitable market economy. In the painting, Breton women wearing their Sun caps and black dresses are visualizing a sermon they had merely heard at church on Jacob's encounter with the Holy Spirit. They seemingly pray devoutly before the apparition. The painting demonstrates no sense of optical realism and instead focuses on color and a twisted perspective to separate the spaces of existent and imaginary. Wrestling matches were a typical form of entertainment after loftier mass and this comments on that likewise.

Gaugin briefly lived with van Gogh and then looked for an economical identify to alive. He after settled in Tahiti in the South Pacific because it was a life far removed from materialistic Europe and allowed him to reconnect with nature. His paintings turned to an association with native motifs besides as class and colour.

Paul GauginWhere do we come up from? What are we? Where are we going?, 1897

Gaugin's artwork was not well received. In 1897 he attempted to kill himself just to live to 1903.Where do nosotros come from? What are nosotros? Where are we going? can be read as a summary of his artistic methods with its flat forms and pure color. The painting shows a tropical mural with an ambiguous message. Gaugin stated,

Where are we going? Most to expiry and erstwhile woman… What are we? Day to mean solar day existence… Where exercise we come from? Source. Child. Life begins… Behind a tree two sinister figures cloaked in garments of sombre color, innovate, near the tree of knowledge, their note of ache caused by that very knowledge in contrast to some simple beings in a virgin nature, which might be paradise as conceived by humanity, who requite themselves up to the happiness of living (Kleiner ?).

The image is pessimistic of the life cycle's inevitability, but demonstrates Gaugin'southward delivery to colour.

Georges Seurat (1859-1891)

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Georges SeuratA Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884-86

Georges Seurat's paintings speak to science more than art. He produced a stylistic process he called "divisionism." The process required observing color and breaking it autonomously into pure component colors, much similar pixels or the modern impress process. Seurat showed an interest in recreational themes and light. His paintings are often rigid and remote every bit the systematic way of colour had to be carefully equanimous. The paintings thus go adequately abstract as he simplifies figures to shape forms.

Conclusions

The Industrial Revolution and the invention of photography freed artists to think more abstractly about the nature of art and the purpose of painting moving forward. Many artistic movements began to comment on their predecessors under modernist goals and an avant-garde sense of exploration. Moving into the twentieth century, the stride accelerated every bit the world became smaller through technology, trade, and exploration. More cultures became influential on the aesthetic sensibilities of the western globe and the concepts of progress entitled artists to comment on the world effectually them.

Notes

This module was produced by Professor Josh Yavelberg utilizing a mixture of open educational resources and notes from:
Kleiner, Fred. Gardner'due south Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective,|. Vol. two. Cengage Learning, 2013.

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