Post-Impressionism

George Seurat, Bathers at Asnieres, 1883-84.

Pointillism (Divisionism, Chromoluminarism)

George Seurat, Bathers at Asnieres, 1883-84.

Renoir, The Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1881.

Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884-86. Oil on canvas, 6’ 9’’ X 10’.

Camille Pissarro, Spring Sunshine in the Meadow at Eragny, 1887

Cezanne, The House of the Hanged Man 1872-1873

Cezanne, Bay from L’Estaque, 1886

Still Life with a Basket of Apples, 1890-94

Paul Cezanne, Mont St.-Victoire, 1904-6

Gustave Moreau, Salome, 1874-6

Symbolism

Paul Gauguin, Vision After the Sermon/ Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, 1888.

Gauguin, Aha oe feii? (What? Are you Jealous?), 1892.

Gauguin, Annah, the Javanese, 1893.

Gauguin, Manao-Tupapau (Spirit of the Dead Watching), 1892.

Manet, Olympia, 1863

Gauguin, Manao-Tupapau (Spirit of the Dead Watching), 1892.

Where Do We Come from? What Are We? Where are We Going? 1897

Vincent van Gogh, The Potato Eaters, 1885

Van Gogh, Portrait of Père Tanguy, 1887-88

Vincent van Gogh, Self-portrait dedicated to Paul Gauguin, 1888

Van Gogh, The Night Café, 1888

Van Gogh, Starry Night, 1889

Van Gogh, Wheat field under threatening

skies, 1890

Edvard Munch, The Sick Child, 1886

Edvard Munch, The Scream/The Cry, 1893

Fauvism and Expressionism

Fauvism

• fauves (wild beasts)• Salon d’Automme, 1905

– “…wild and naïve sport of a child who plays with a box of colors he has just got as a Christmas present”

Henri Matisse, Open Window, 1905

Henri Matisse, Woman with Hat,

1905

Matisse, Portrait of Madame Matisse, 1905

Matisse, Joy of Life, 1905-6. 5’ X 7’ 9’’

Matisse, Joy of Life, 1905-6

Nicolas Poussin, Bacchanalia with Lute

player, 1630.

Fang mask used for the ngil ceremony, an inquisitorial search for sorcerers. Wood, Gabon, 19th century

Female figure, ca. 1920

Matisse, Blue Nude: Souvenir of Biskra, 1907

Jean-Auguste Ingres, Odalisque with Slave, 1842

Matisse, Blue Nude: Souvenir of Biskra, 1907

“If I met such a woman on the street, I would run away in terror. Above all, I do not create a woman, I make a picture”

Matisse, Blue Nude: Souvenir of Biskra, 1907

Matisse, Harmony in Red (1908)

Matisse, The Dance, 1910

Matisse, The Red Studio, 1911

Matisse, The Red Studio, 1911Courbet

Gustave Courbet, The Painter’s Studio: A Real Allegory of the Last Seven Years of my Life, 1854-55

Expressionism

• Interested in expressing the artist’s interiority rather than representing the outside world.

• German expressionism: – Die Brücke (The Bridge) – Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider)

Die Brücke (The Bridge)

“With faith in progress and in a new generation of creators and spectators we call together all youth. As youth, we carry the future in us and want to create for ourselves freedom of life and movement against the long-established older forces. We claim as our own everyone who reproduces that which drives him to creation with directness and authenticity”

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Brücke Manifesto, 1906, woodcut

Kirchner, Bathers under Trees (Bathers at Moritzburg), 1909

Kirchner, Girl Under Japanese Umbrella, 1909

Kirchner, Self Portrait with Model, 1910

Paula Modersohn Becker, Self Portrait with Amber Necklace, 1906

Erich Heckel, Young Woman, 1913, woodcut

Käthe Kollwitz, Bread! 1924

Käthe Kollwitz Sleeping Child and Child’s Head, 1903

Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider)

Wassily Kandinsky, Blue Rider, 1903

The Blue Rider

Kandinsky, Cover for Blauer Reiter Almanac, 1912

Wassily Kandinsky, Composition No. VII, 1913

Kandinsky, Black Lines, 1913