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Impressionismand Fin de Sicle

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French Nationalism

After the Franco-Prussianwar

Defeated and embarrassed

Culture was a point of pride

Language (how it was said justas important as what was said)

Food (how it was produced andpresented as important as taste)

Art/literature/music (techniquewas critical)

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Principles of the Classical

Forms Classical themes

Static style

International

Principles of the Romantic

Expansion of forms

Personal emotions

Dynamics

National

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New Art Direction in 19th C

Art centered in Paris

Belle poque

Architecture from this timeprevalent today

New subjects, styles,techniques and meanings

Criticized as departingfrom the classical and,therefore, suspect of

degrading French values

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douard ManetLe Dejeuner sur lHerbe

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douard ManetA bar at the Folies-Bergre

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douard Manet

The Fifer

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Claude Monet

Impression: Sunrise

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Claude Monet

Rouen Cathedral:

Full Sunlight

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Claude Monet

JapaneseBridge at

Giverny

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Renior

Girls at thePiano

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Edgar DegasRehearsal of a Ballet on Stage

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Edgar Degas

The Glass of Absinthe

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Post-impressionism in painting

Not an art school (rather, amovement of individuals)

Rejected impressionism in different

ways

Grouped together today for historicalpurposes

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Paul Cezanne

Self

Portrait

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Georges SeuratA Sunday on La Grande Jalette

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Vincent van GoghThe Starry Night

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"I dream of painting and then I paintmy dream."

Vincent Van Gogh

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Vincent van GoghSunflowers

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Paul Gauguin

La OranaMaria

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Henri de Toulousse-Lautrec

At theMoulin-

Rouge

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Fauvism and Expressionism

Inspired by Van Gogh

Depart more from tradition

Emotions of the artists

Means wild beasts

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Henri Matisse

The RedRoom

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EdvardMunch

The Scream

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Erich Heckel

Two Men at a Table

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Sculpture

Auguste Rodin

Brought new life

Classical style with

modern technique The Thinker

The Kiss

Balzac

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Rodin's "The Burghers of Calais"

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I choose a block of marble and chopoff whatever I dont need.

-Francois Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

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Architecture

Frame construction

Crystal Palace

Eiffel tower

Parisian stylebuilding

Mansard roofs ofmoderate height

Copied by other cities

Style and feeling ofbeauty