Aspects of Landscape Painting

CompositionHorizon line Focal pointBalanceForegroundMiddle groundBackground

Berthe Morisot, Landscape of La Creuse (1882)

Art Appreciation 2013-2014

The Natural World

Color, composition & light …

By the early 1800s artists began to experiment with color and how colors change according to those

beside them.

Claude Monet: Regatta at Argenteuil (1827)

Attention to color

Claude Monet, Branch of Orange Bearing Fruit (1884)

The French Impressionists

Claude Monet

Pierre Auguste Renoir

Alfred Sisley

Camille Pissarro

Paul Cezanne

Berthe Morisot

Edgar Degas

En pleine aire In the open air….

Claude Monet: Les Paves de Chailly (1865)

Bold close-ups

Claude Monet: On the Beach at Trouville (1870)

The Floating Studio

Edouard Manet: Monet in his Floating Studio (1874)

Monet: La Grenouillere, 1869

Japanese Influence: composition and mood

Ando Hiroshige: Tsukauda Beneath a Full Moon (1830s)Claude Monet: Red Boats (1875)

Elements of Photography

Edgar Degas: Four Dancers (1899)

Alfred Sisley: Flood at Port-Marly (1876)

Aspects of modern life

Innovation and scandal:The Birth of Impressionism

Claude Monet: Le soleil levant (1873)

Impression, Sunrise

The 1874 exposition

The term “Impressionism” is coined…

Beyond Impressionism

Vincent Van Gogh: Olive Trees with Yellow Sky and Sun (1890)