Impressionists, Post Impressionists and Romantics

*Watercolor Painting

*What is Romanticism

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*Early decades of the nineteenth century

*Return to emotion/experience

*Emphasis on the imagination and emotion

*Disorder and tumult

*Nature and its unpredictability- potential for extremes, nature as violent/terrifying, mans struggle with nature/oneself

*The “sublime” in art Boxers, 1818Théodore Gericault (French, 1791–1824)Lithograph

*J.M.W Turner

* Landscape

* Nature- unpredictable, turbulent force

* SUBLIME: philosophy

* Something that cannot be described or have limits put on it, an extreme sense of beauty or wonder, a vast magnitude of greatness

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775–1851)The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October, 1834,

*Théodore Gericault

Interest in human nature, survival, hope

also interested in psychological states through portraits- painting psychiatric patients

darker sides of childhood through unconventional child portraits.

“Géricault believed that a face revealed more, especially in madness and at the moment of death. He made many studies of the inmates in hospitals and institutions for the criminally insane, and he studied the heads of guillotine victims”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insane_Woman

http://www.louvre.fr Raft of the Medusa

*Eugène Delacroix

Expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists

Illustrated works by wrtiers Shakespeare, Walter Scott and Goethe

Wanted to paint passion, with violent action

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugène_Delacroix

Mephistopheles in Flight, 1828Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863)From Goethe's Faust,

Liberty Leading the People

*Horace Vernet

Vernet quickly developed a disdain for the high-minded seriousness of academic French art influenced by Classicism, and decided to paint subjects taken mostly from contemporary culture

Battle of valmy

The Start of the Race of the Riderless Horses

*Contemporary Connections

*Collier Schorr* Photographs of wrestlers

* “At matches I’m not really looking for the pin. If I get it that’s a bonus, but it’s so fast and it may be across the room from you. You get it if it’s in front of you. I think I’m looking for introspection. I’m looking for the moment before the guy goes out there and he's warming up. The moment when he comes off, either exhilarated because he won or devastated because he lost. I’m looking for anyone that’s bleeding. Anyone that’s been beaten up a bit.”

*Impressionism

• Late 1800s, France• Vibrant color• Capturing the fleeting moment with quick brush strokes• Capturing nature as it was seen• Painting every day scenes from the world they knew• Cropping and framing became important• Paris, and city scenes were popular• Color theory was emerging so there was a lot of experimentation

with color• And the use of the camera became popular, influencing their use

of foreshortening, perspective, candid qualities, off center focus, spontaneity

• Painted plein-air (outside)• Painting people in their environment, working outdoors

*Claude Monet

sunrise

San giorgio at dusk

*AUGUST RENOIRhttp://www.pierre-auguste-renoir.org/

*Post Impressionism

• Because of the liberating experience of impressionism, other artists emerged with variations on the style such as Vincent Van Gogh- a post impressionist-

• Post impressionists use impressionist styles, but were using color, marks and the subject matter in a more abstract, symbolic and emotional way, thus influencing early expressionism.

*VINCENT VAN GOGH

Corridor in the asylum

http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2008/vangoghnight/flashsite/

Landscape at twilight

*GEORGES SEURAT