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Transcript of Impressionism, Postimpressionism, Cubism Kagan, Ch. 24.
Art of the Late 19th Century and early 20th Century
Impressionism, Postimpressionism, Cubism Kagan, Ch. 24
Impressionism
“Don’t proceed according to the rules and principles, but paint what you observe and feel.”
Pissaro – changing effect of light on objects in nature
Monet – interplay of light, water and atmosphere
Morisot – women were not dilettantes but had a special sense of vision
Pissarro, The Stage Coach at Louveciennes 1870
Claude Monet, Water Lilies 1914 & Rouen Cathedral 1892-4
Berthe Morisot, In the Garden at Maurecourte 1884
Post-Impressionism
More attention to form and structure
Personal statement of realitySubjective realityCezanne – underlying geometric form
Van Gogh – the language of color
Paul Cezanne
Vincent van Gogh, Room at Arles 1889
Vincent van Gogh, Irises, 1889
Cubism and Abstract Painting
Picasso & Cubism – geometric design to recreate reality
Kandinsky & Abstract painting – avoid representation all together, concentrate on color
Pablo Picasso, Old Guitarist 1903
Pablo Picasso, Guernica 1937
Wassily Kandinsky, Autumn in Bavaria, 1908
Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VIII 1923
Modernism in Music
Focus on folk music/melodies; nationalistic feeling
Edvard Grieg – Norwegian nationalism, incidental music for Henrik Ibsen’s play
Claude Debussey – music inspired by visual arts
Igor Stravinsky Musical primitivism; irrational forces in
sound
Composers
Tchaikovsky
Rimsky-Korsakov