La Belle ÉpoqueLa Belle Époque

Culture between1870 and 1914.

Index The Sculpture,by David Carrasco.

The new types of popular culture,by Juan Carlos Ramos.

The Architecture,by Pablo Quevedo.

The Painting,by Antonio Torres.

The Sculpture

In the impressionist sculpture the artists tried to reflect the light in their arts.

In the post-impressionist sculpture the artist tried to reflect their senses or their vision of the real world.

The best sculptor was Rodin. Rodin did the model of the

Impressionist sculpture.

The sculpture had not fished surfaces that, when the light shone there sculpture saw finished.

Examples of sculptures of this time were:

El pensador

El beso

New types of popular culture

In this time appeared new forms of artistic expression:

Born the cinema in 1895. Edison invented the phonograph in

1878. Later appeared the gramophone. Born the music industry, in 1900 had

record stores in all major cities.

Fonograph

Gramophone

The Architecture

The development of the Industrial Revolution made possible that we could use new materials in the construction of buildings, like the iron, the glass, the steel and the reinforced concreted.

The symbol of the new architecture was the “Eiffel Tower”, in Paris.

Was in this time when born the skyscraper, with the elevators.

At the end of the XIXth century appeared a new architectonic style, the Modernism.

The architects of the Modernism paid special attention to the aesthetic of their buildings.

The most famous architect was Antonio Gaudí. These are some of his works:

The Painting

The Impressionism painters, around 1870, tried to reflect the light effects in the pictures.

In the following decade, the post-impressionism painters tried to show their own feelings and their own point of view about the society.

These are some Impressionism and Post-Impressism painters and their works:

Monet

Renoir

Pizarro

Van Gogh

Cézanne

Gaugin

Questions

1.- Who isthe most famous sculptor? 2.- What was invented by Edison? 3.- What was the symbol of the new

architecture? 4.- What tried to reflect the

Impressionism painters in their pictures?

5.- What is the name of this work?

Answers

1.- Rodin 2.- The Fonograph 3.- The Eiffel Tower 4.- The light effects of the objects. 5.- La Belle Èpoque

Credits

Pablo QuevedoDavid Ruiz Carrasco

Antonio Torres GallegoJuan Carlos Ramos