Modernism

Modernism and Impressionism

©Jolien De Ridder, 2014

Starter©Jolien De Ridder, 2014

Start: (the given - the reality)A realistic reproduction. - As we percieve it in nature- Imitating


To deduce:The realistic reproduction becomes more abstract BUT Keeps referring to reality



To deduce:The realistic reproduction becomes more abstract BUT Keeps referring to the realistic image


Abstract:Leaving out references to reality.- This is possible by using a total new imagery/visuallanguage.


MODERNISM


SETTING

• When: 1870 - 1914

• Why: Changes in society• Industrial Revolution

• Consumerism

• Social inequalities

• Invention and spreading of photography


• Exposition in Paris annually since 1673

• Organised by l’Académie des Beaux-Arts

• During two centuries the most important exposition for artists in France

Les Salons de peinture et sculpture


Pietro Antonio Martini, etching, Salon du Louvre, 1787



• These artworks were very ‘academic’

– Style: how it was taught at the Académie des Beaux-Arts

– Neoclassicism and Romanticism

– “The official taste”

– The artworks shown at the expo had to beapproved


Dantan, Edouard, Un Coin du Salon en 1880©Jolien De Ridder, 2014

Salon des Refusées

• Paris, 1863

• Next to the official salon

• The works of art that were refused at the official salon


Impressionism• 1860-1900

• En plein air

• The impressions of reality

• Volatile effects

Monet, Claude, Impression soleil levant, 1873

To deduce:The realistic reproduction becomes more abstract but references to reality are still present




To deduce:The realistic reproduction becomes more abstract but references to reality are still present




Manet, Edouard, Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe, 1863©Jolien De Ridder, 2014

Manet, Edouard, A bar at the Folies Bergere, 1882


Pissaro, Camille, Boulevard Montmartre morning grey weather, 1897


Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The theater box, 1874

Sorolla, Joaquin, The bath Javea, 1905©Jolien De Ridder, 2014

Neo-impressionism• Technical aspects of

color and light

• Pointillism

• Divisionism

Post-impressionism• 1880-1900

• Own personal styles

• Structures: e.g. geometricshapes

• Gauguin, Van Gogh, Cézanne



Gauguin, Paul, Landschap met pauwen, 1892

Cézanne, Paul, Corner of the quary,


Stevens, Alfred, The Paris Sfinks, 1867

Manet, edouard, The reading, 1869


Pissaro, Camille, The climbing path l’hermitage, 1877

Corot, General view of the town of Saint-Lo, 1833


Bonnat, Leon, William Thompson Walters, 1883

Paul Cézanne, Portrait of Ambroise Vollard, 1899

Leighton, Frederic, de idylle, 1880

Caillebotte, Gustave, The nap, 1877


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Modernism