Chapter 27-3

19th Century Art in Europe and USA!

Britain Late 19th Century

Artist: William Holman Hunt Title: The Hireling Shepherd Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 30 ⅛ X 43 ⅛" (76.4 X 109.5 cm) Date: 1851 Source/ Museum: Manchester City Art Gallery, England

Painted landscapes that he would add figures to

Man flirts with women

Political statement lamb in lap is cute

Artist: BACKGROUND: William Morris Title: Peacock and Dragon Curtain Medium: Handloomed jacquard-woven woolen twill Size: 12' 10 ½" X 11' 5 ⅝" (3.96 X 3.53 m) Date: 1878 Source/ Museum: Manufactured at Queen Square and later at Merton Abbey / Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Alternative to industrial furniture

Hand woven seat and simple

lines

Impressionism

Boycotted the Salon and were called “impressionist”, not realist,

impressionism gives you a taste or an impression of the subject

Artist: Édouard Manet Title: Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (The Luncheon on the Grass) Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 7' X 8'8" (2.13 X 2.64 m) Date: 1863 Source/ Museum: Musée d’Orsay, Paris

A radical artist

Lead the rejected salon exhibit

Not very appropriate art subject matter

Artist: Édouard Manet Title: Olympia Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 4'3" X 6'2 ¼" (1.31 X1.91 m) Date: 1863 Source/ Museum: Musée du Louvre, Paris

Olympia was a prostitute in a novel by Aleixandre Dumas, passed on a Titian

painting. She is angular and flat, cold and indifferent

cat doesn’t like you

she glares down at the view as if saying you are subordinate

Artist: Claude Monet Title: On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 32 X 39 ⅔" (81.5 X 100.7 cm) Date: 1868 Source/ Museum: Art Institute of Chicago. Potter Palmer Collection, 1922.427

Strong light, rich shadows, bold colors, paint conveys freshness of the day

Paint is loosely placed around the canvas to create the allusion of the objects

Artist: Claude Monet Title: Gare St-Lazare Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 29¾ X 50" (75.5 X 104 cm) Date: 1877 Source/ Museum: Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Photo: Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY

When you painted don’t think of the objects but think of the colors

Artist: Camille Pissarro Title: Wooded Landscape at L’hermitage, Pontoise Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 18 5⁄16 X 22 1⁄16" (46.5 X 56 cm) Date: 1878 Source/ Museum: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Nicholas S. Pickard

Later painter but reflects monet style

A lightening of colors and a loose way in which they handled the brush

Enjoyed painting for the sake of painting

Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir Title: Moulin de la Galette Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 4'3½" X 5'9" (1.31 X 1.75 m) Date: 1876 Source/ Museum: Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Combined the light and air monet painting with a impressionist figure painting of

his own

Attractive middle class and innocent flirtation, underscored by children, painting

is knit together by the overall mood

Artist: Edgar Degas Title: The Rehearsal on Stage Medium: Pastel over brush-and-ink drawing on thin, cream-colored wove paper, laid on bristol board, mounted on canvas Size: 21⅜ X 28¾" (54.3 X 73 cm) Date: c. 1874 Source/ Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1929 (29.160.26) Arranged his own visual choreography

More academic than the other impressionists

Inspired by Japanese prints, intended to delight the eye

Viewed from opera box, the men…. KNOWN FOR HIS

RED HAEDED MODELS AND BALLERINA PRINTS

Artist: Mary Cassatt Title: Woman in a Loge Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 31 ⅝ X 23" (80.3 X 58.4 cm) Date: 1879 Source/ Museum: Philadelphia Museum of Art. Bequest of Charlotte Dorrance Wright

American women painter

Degas invited her to exhibit with the

impressionist

Studio painter, known for her brilliant

color , fluent brushstrokes, and urban

subject matter

Artist: Berthe Morisot Title: Summer’s Day Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 17 13⁄16 X 29 5⁄16" (45.7 X 75.2 cm) Date: 1879 Source/ Museum: The National Gallery, London. Lane Bequest, 1917

Married to Manet’s brother, very

loose painterly style, she like

Cassatt devoted herself to painting

the women at the time

Artist: Édouard Manet Title: A Bar at the Folies-Bergère Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 37 ¾ X 51 ¼" (95.9 X 130 cm) Date: 1881–82 Source/ Museum: Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery, London. (P.1934.SC.234)

Manet followed the lead of the painters around him and loosened his brush stokes

Last major painting, contrast the other happy lady paintings

You are the customer, she is a barmaid, who looks strong and lively but her dreamer

reflects not,

Late Impressionism

Artist: Mary Cassatt Title: Maternal Caress Medium: Drypoint, soft-ground etching, and aquatint on paper Size: 14 ¾ X 10¾" (37.5 X 27.3 cm) Date: 1891 Source/ Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Chester Dale Collection (1963.10.255) Japanese influence with her introduction to print making Madonna and child reference Simplified and clean Harmony of apricots and browns

Artist: Claude Monet Title: Rouen Cathedral: The Portal (in Sun) Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 39 ¼ X 26" (99.7 X 66 cm) Date: 1894 Source/ Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915 (30.95.250)

Painted more than 30 views of the

cathedral

Tried to capture the fleeting affects of light

To put impressionist on the art historical

maps Monet began painting French

historical things

Post- Impressionist

Art after the impressionists

Artist: Paul Cézanne Title: Mont Sainte-Victoire Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 25 ½ X 32" (64.8 X 92.3 cm) Date: c. 1885–87 Source/ Museum: Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery, London. (P.1934.SC.55)

Wanted to develop more abstract styles

In Manet’s circle, early work rejected by salon

sensations of nature brush strokes

Painted this mountain more than 30 times before it died

Artist: Paul Cézanne Title: Still Life with Basket of Apples Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 24 ⅜ X 31" (62.5 X 79.5 cm) Date: 1890–94 Source/ Museum: The Art Institute of Chicago. Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection

Right side of table is

higher than the left

Wine bottle has 2

different silhouette

Tumbling effect

More about the colors

than the perspective

Artist: Paul Cézanne Title: The Large Bathers Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 6'10" X 8"2" (2.08 X 2.49 m) Date: 1906 Source/ Museum: Philadelphia Museum of Art. The W. P. Wilstach Collection

Later work,

Left unfinished,

died

Did not work with

models

2 pyramidal groups

Colors layed over

white in patches

Artist: Georges Seurat Title: A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 6'9 ½" X 10'1 ¼" (2.07 X 3.08 m) Date: 1884–86 Source/ Museum: The Art Institute of Chicago.

Divisionism/ pointillism

Dot painting using Chevreul’s law- blue next to yellow, you can detect the

complement

Optical mixing. Grainy appearance,

Different interpretations