Post on 27-Dec-2015
Impressionism - a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists. …Was:
1 . a reaction against industrialization and even photography
2. prominent during the 1870s and 1880s
3. characterized by the soft pastels, nature driven settings, pastoral living, creates impression rather then realism.
4. received harsh opposition from the conventional art community in France.
5. The style derives its name from the title of a Monet work, Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise)
Louis Leroyto coin the term in a satirical review published in the Parisian newspaper Le Charivari.
Impression—I was certain of it. I was just telling myself that, since I was impressed, there had to be some impression in it ... and what freedom, what ease of workmanship! Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape.[12]
Louis Leroy Le Charivari
Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890)
Dutch painter from Netherlands Amsterdam. post-impressionist painter notable for its radiant colors , high emotional,
swirling brush strokes.
He struggled with mental illness, and remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life. Van Gogh died in France on July 29, 1890, at age 37, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Georges Seurat (1859–1891) and Neo (new) -Impressionism ... pioneer of technique of painting in
softly flickering, small dots or strokes of color, called Pointillism.
Romanticism - Cultural Movement During Industrial Revolution Romantic themes:
Freedom, Imagination, sensuality, emotion and movement
Appeals to emotion not reason!
Ludwig van Beethoven German Composer combined Romanticism and classical works adding strings and full orchestras
Most known for 5th symphony
Going deaf at the height of his career.
Realism - Movement during Industrial Era that depicts Life as it was Charles Dickens – a Christmas Carroll
and Tale of Two Cities Often showed harsh existence of Life
in industrial cities and class Class inequalities
Robert Owens - 1771 -1858
Believed in Socialist Utopian communities
Worked for social reform of factories New Lanark mills in Lanarkshire,
Scotland, incorporated social and industrial welfare programs
sponsored or encouraged many experimental “utopian” communities, including one in New Harmony, Indiana, U.S.