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Edouard Manet
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Edouard Manet (January 23, 1832 – April 30, 1883) was a French painter.
One of the first nineteenth century artists to approach modern-life
subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to
Impressionism. His early masterworks The Luncheon on the Grass and
Olympia engendered great controversy, and served as rallying points for
the young painters who would create Impressionism—today these are
considered watershed paintings that mark the genesis of modern art.
Claude Monet Art
Paintings
Claude Monet also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet
(November 14, 1840 – December 5, 1926) was a founder of French
Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific
practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's
perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape
painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his
painting Impression, Sunrise.
Claude Oscar Monet (Claude Oscar Monet) (1840-1926), French painter, one
of the founders of Impressionism. Born Nov. 14, 1840 in Paris, in the
family grocer. Five years later his family moved to Le Havre. Around
1856, under the leadership of Louis Eugène Budena wrote landscapes in
the open air. In 1859 Monet moved to Paris.
Transfer to a canvas of light variability, the diversity of atmospheric
phenomena and changes of nature at different times of the year brought
Monet to 1890, worldwide fame and wealth. By this time he began working
on several canvases at once, passing on every light and the state of the
species in some fairly short period of time, working on a canvas often
no more than half an hour.
From 1899 until the death in 1926 (these years were marred by
deteriorating vision) Monet created a vast canvas depicting a pond in
the garden at different times of the day. 14 panels from the series
"Water lilies" in Paris and designed the artist exhibited in two oval
rooms of the Tuileries Rooflights. Monet died at Giverny 5 December,
1926.
Paul Cezanne Art
Paintings
Paul Cézanne (January 19, 1839 – October 22, 1906) was a French artist
and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the
transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a
new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne
can be said to form the bridge between late 19th century Impressionism
and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism. The
line attributed to both Matisse and Picasso that Cézanne "...is the
father of us all..." cannot be easily dismissed.
Cézanne's work demonstrates a mastery of design, colour, composition and
draftsmanship. His often repetitive, sensitive and exploratory
brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognisable. Using
planes of colour and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex
fields, at once both a direct expression of the sensations of the
observing eye and an abstraction from observed nature, Cézanne's
paintings convey intense study of his subjects, a searching gaze and a
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From Monet to
Van Gogh: A History
of Impressionism
Professor Richard Brettell creates a vivid, "virtual" museum through
which to appreciate the genius and enduring accomplishments of the
Impressionists: the men and women who, in a few short decades, forever
changed the art of painting.
Who Were the Impressionists?
They appeared in a period of upheaval. They saw the rebuilding of Paris,
the rise of industrialism, the ruin of the Franco-Prussian war.
They displayed their works—paintings that were startlingly, even
shockingly, new—in a series of exhibitions from 1874 to 1886.
And by the 1890s this "loose coalition" of artists who rebelled against
the formality of the French Academy had created the most famous artistic
movement in history. "They" were the Impressionists, and Professor
Brettell is your expert curator and guide to a movement that created a
new, intensely personal vision of the world.
Whether the subject was a city street, a holiday beach, a harvest field,
or a demoiselle's boudoir, they virtually invented the
sensibility—urbane, contemporary, ever-changing—that today we take for
granted as the "modern."
Who were the Impressionists? What's the difference between a Manet and a
Monet? How does a Pissarro landscape differ from one by Cézanne? Were
they really as personally scandalous as the Establishment alleged?
And why is Impressionism, a 19th-century phenomenon, still so appealing
in the 21st?
What You Will Learn
These artists documented life in the latter half of the 19th century and
provided models of behavior, decorum, and urban beauty that persist to
this day. This series of lectures will introduce you to the style,
subject, and function of Impressionist painting by artists including
Monet, Renoir, Cassatt, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, and van Gogh.
Separate analysis is given to the important Impressionist exhibitions
and their contemporary critics like the writer Baudelaire. Among key
topics covered are the public and private worlds of Parisian modernity,
life in the countryside, the new leisure class, and the influential
legacy of Impressionism.
Dr. Brettell, Professor of Aesthetic Studies at The University of Texas
at Dallas, is a teacher and curator of international renown and is
widely published on 19th- and 20th-century art. His lectures are
designed as a way for you to view and discuss the Impressionist
revolution with a deft mix of history, biography, and art:
* You'll learn how the Impressionist aesthetic was driven by the
rise of the railroad and suburban tourism.
* You'll learn how Mary Cassatt painted the lives of wealthy
expatriates, while Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec scoured the dives of
Montmartre to draw Paris by night.
* You'll learn about technique: Degas's use of lighting effects.
Renoir's plump, sensuous brushstrokes. Pissarro's use of slabs and
pieces of paint. Gauguin and Van Gogh's bold, bright colors.
* You'll see how Berthe Morisot could convey women's sense of
boredom, sadness, and frustration.
* You'll see how Monet's approach changed in his later years from
one in which the subject was in flux and motion to one of constancy and
stability.
* You'll learn what happened to this radical movement as its leaders
grew older—and more successful—by century's end.
"We will take a chronological, and oftentimes biographical, approach to
studying the artists rather than looking at each career separately,"
says Professor Brettell. "This is due in large part to the fact that
there was a certain amount of collectivity among them, visible not only
in the Impressionist exhibitions but in the artistic tours/retreats that
pairs of painters took in order to study modern life and its environs.
"As the life and career of each painter unfolds, we are introduced to
their families, friends, and colleagues, all of whom become subjects in
and influences on their work. The careers of many of the artists are
discussed from their early exposure to art, their teachers, travels, and
later stylistic influences."
Great Impressionist Works You Will See
Presented with these absorbing lectures are more than 200 vividly
reproduced artworks for your study and enjoyment, including:
* Ballet Rehearsal on the Stage, by Edgar Degas. This sepia-toned
painting, done in the style of a photograph, was part of the first
Impressionist exhibition and raised questions about how visual images
were created.
* Impression: Sunrise (Marine), by Claude Monet. This painting of a
sailboat at dawn may have given Impressionism its name, along with
Monet's well-known Impression Sunrise. Light, freely painted, about
color and immediacy, it is one of the most radical paintings in the
history of modern art.
* Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), by Edouard Manet.
This depiction of Manet's favorite model, Victorine Meurent, as a nude
on a picnic with two clothed men was considered scandalous. It
exemplifies Manet's tendency to shock, provoke, and raise more questions
than he answers.
* The Beach at Trouville, by Claude Monet. Painted on Monet's
honeymoon, this canvas depicts his wife and Madame Boudin at Trouville,
on the Normandy coast. The dots on Madame Boudin's dress are actually
grains of sand that blew onto the canvas as Monet painted.
* The Garden, by Berthe Morisot. Morisot executed this work, her
career masterpiece, with an incredible gestural abandon that few male
artists could match.
* Vision after the Sermon, by Paul Gauguin. One of the most bizarre
and powerful paintings in the history of art, this painting combines
elements of high art, Japanese art, and religious imagery.
Trace the Beginning of "Modern Art"
The Impressionists were the first formal group of professional artists
to include women: Berthe Morisot and the American, Mary Cassatt.
Morisot, in fact, participated in seven of the eight Impressionist
exhibitions, more than any other member of the movement except Pissarro.
In their first exhibition in 1874, the "Société Anonyme des Artistes"
(the name Impressionists came later) took an approach that was not only
modern, but unprecedented.
We tend to think of the history of art as one of individual geniuses who
acted as teachers for subsequent groups of artists. But the
Impressionists worked very differently. They chose to develop their
craft as equals, painting and learning from one another in small groups.
Rather than promoting sameness, this way of working highlighted the
unmistakable differences among the groups and artists.
Impressionist painters often painted the same scenes, at times
simultaneously, with their easels side by side. These occasions present a
fascinating opportunity to compare technique and to see the
Impressionist approach at work. Renoir's and Monet's 1869 studies of La
Grenouillère (The Frog Pond), a well-known spot for swimming,
socializing, and renting boats, offer a notable case in point.
One of the legacies of Impressionism is to leave the viewer with a
profound sense of life—of life captured on the canvas, through motion,
light, and color, and life lived by these remarkable artists, always
seeking to experience and to learn, to better capture the reality before
their eyes.
This course is an absorbing lesson in the marvelous cultural,
historical, and visual experiences that great paintings provide.
Post-Impressionism
to World War II
Post-Impressionism to World War II is an exciting anthology of the best
art history writings of the Post-Impressionist period. Several key
essays by critics including Benjamin, Greenberg and Bürger knit together
primary sources and classic, “canonical” criticism.
* Collects the most important writings on art history from
Post-Impressionism to the mid-20th century, covering both canonical and
contemporary perspectives
* Offers a chronicle of avant-garde practice during an especially
creative, if volatile, period of history
The Judgement
of Paris: The Revolutionary
Decade that Gave the
World Impressionism
(illustrated)
Unencumbered by the dogma of conservative institutions such as the École
des Beaux-Arts, the Americans happily embraced what the French had been
reviling for two decades as scandalous profanations of art. Paintings
of modern life—ballet dancers, Parisian street scenes, and the sunlit,
willow-draped riverbanks at Pontoise or Argenteuil—endeared themselves
to a new generation of American collectors and museum-goers much more
than did moralistic interpretations of Greek myths, Roman history, or
indeed Napoleonic battle scenes.
Edouard Manet
Art
Edouard Manet (January 23, 1832 – April 30, 1883) was a French painter.
One of the first nineteenth century artists to approach modern-life
subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to
Impressionism. His early masterworks The Luncheon on the Grass and
Olympia engendered great controversy, and served as rallying points for
the young painters who would create Impressionism—today these are
considered watershed paintings that mark the genesis of modern art. |
