Revision: Peintures/Atget

Semester 1 FinalFrench 3

Les peintres “anti-académie”:Les peintres de BARBIZON.

• The French Academy had insisted painters be trained in the “Neo Classical” tradition.

• Landscapes were not considered a noble subject matter. They were seen only as a backdrop to historical paintings.

• Barbizon painters LOVED landscapes!

Jean-François MILLET

• He was a “Realist/Naturalist” painter.• Loved to paint the humble peasant farmer.• The Gleaners, 1857

MILLET, L’ Angelus, 1857

Monet

• Father of Impressionism• He loved to experiment with the effect of light

on subjects-would often paint the same object over and over at different times of the day

Painted outdoors, “en pleine-aire”.

Cézanne

• Cézanne was the father of modern art.• His work was rather abstract, based on the

cylinder, cone and sphere.• He loved still-lifes, landscapes and portraits.

Nature Morte=Still life

Paysage=landscape

Portraits

Matisse

• He loved to experiment with wild colors.

• He was one of the “Fauves” (Wild Beast) artists.

• Towards the end of his career, he used cut paper to “paint with scissors”.

Papiers découpés=cut paper

Eugène AtgetMaker of “documents” of

Paris,Late 1800’s, early 1900’s

Café, Avenue de la Grande-Armée, 1924–25

“Versailles”1923

“Le Cirque” 1920