Art of the Late 19th Century and early 20th Century

Impressionism, Postimpressionism, Cubism Kagan, Ch. 24

Impressionism

“Don’t proceed according to the rules and principles, but paint what you observe and feel.”

Pissaro – changing effect of light on objects in nature

Monet – interplay of light, water and atmosphere

Morisot – women were not dilettantes but had a special sense of vision

Pissarro, The Stage Coach at Louveciennes 1870

Claude Monet, Water Lilies 1914 & Rouen Cathedral 1892-4

Berthe Morisot, In the Garden at Maurecourte 1884

Post-Impressionism

More attention to form and structure

Personal statement of realitySubjective realityCezanne – underlying geometric form

Van Gogh – the language of color

Paul Cezanne

Vincent van Gogh, Room at Arles 1889

Vincent van Gogh, Irises, 1889

Cubism and Abstract Painting

Picasso & Cubism – geometric design to recreate reality

Kandinsky & Abstract painting – avoid representation all together, concentrate on color

Pablo Picasso, Old Guitarist 1903

Pablo Picasso, Guernica 1937

Wassily Kandinsky, Autumn in Bavaria, 1908

Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VIII 1923

Modernism in Music

Focus on folk music/melodies; nationalistic feeling

Edvard Grieg – Norwegian nationalism, incidental music for Henrik Ibsen’s play

Claude Debussey – music inspired by visual arts

Igor Stravinsky Musical primitivism; irrational forces in

sound

Composers

Tchaikovsky

Rimsky-Korsakov