Impressionism

Ingres/Delacroix Retrospectives, 1855 Franco Prussian War, 1870 First Impressionist Exhibit, 1874 Last Impressionist Exhibit, 1886 Electric Light Invented, 1879 First Post Impressionist Exhibit at MOMA, by A. Barr, 1903/1929 Terms:
Japonisme

Interest in Japanese Woodblocks/Prints Exhibition showing work refused by the Salon

Salon des Refuses in 1863

Barbizon School Landscape painting school in which the realists worked Ukiyo-E En Plein Air
Monotype

Colored Woodcuts of the floating world, Japanese Painting out of doors (utilized by Monet)

Rubbing a plate with ink, putting it through a printing press for a caricature like effect

Academie Suisse Art school where Monet began, concentrated on classical figure drawing Ecole d. Beaux Arts taught
Absinthe

Classical Art school where history painting was

Bitter liquor-associated with prostitutes and Fashionable Parisian man (Baudelaire) Train station in Paris

alcoholics
Flaneur Gare St. Lazare

Places:

 Fontainebleu Brittany

Where the Barbizon school originated (Pissarro) Birthplace of Merlin (associated with Arthurian

Legend)
Honfleur, LaHavre, Ste. Addresse-areas where Monet worked Longchamp Giverny Pontoise Grenouilliere

Racetrack outside of Paris where Degas painted Northwest of Paris, Monets retirement area Area in France where Pissarro painted-River Oise

Park in Paris where Degas and Monet paintedswimming, dancing, bands-means lily pads Rocky area on Normandy coast where Monet painted Sailing center where Impressionists went to

LEtretat LArgenteuil

paint

People: Victorine MeurantModel utilized by Manet-Olympia Nadar Louis LeRoy Papa Tanguy Van Gogh Boudin Photographed aerial views of Paris coined the term Impressionism art dealer for the Impressionists, painted by Monets teacher in Honfleur

Writers:

Emile Zola Friend of Degas/Cezanne/Manet and writer of various daily reviews-LEvenment-contemporary magazine Baudelaire Duranty intimate Wrote On Modern Life-friend of Impressionists New Painting-changing history painting to be more

Important Quotes:

o Cezanne: o Renoir: with it o Degas:

Monet is nothing more than an eye; but what an eye it is (1885) Impressionism is a blind dead alley and Im done Art is not a sport

Important Influences/Sources/Impacts: Delacroix influence on Seurat/Manet-Colors (swirling colors) Turner influence on Monet (vagueness of forms) Renaissance influence on Renoir (subject matter and lines) Ingres/Daumier influence on Degas (anatomist/realist) Corot influence on Pissarro (light landscapes) Monet becomes important to Rothko/Warhol (series paintings) Modern Life vs. non Modern Life (Paris vs. locations) Degas-charcoal and chalk

Places to see works by Impressionists: Musee DOrsay MFA London Art Institute Philadelphia National Gallery Williamstown Chicago Museum of Art Paris Boston MOMA Courtauld Institute NYC

Washington, D.C. Clark Institute

Images

Degas
o o o o o

Bellelli Family Horse Races (Longchamp) Orchestra at the Opera Absinthe Dance Lesson/Dancers (watercolors, chalks, pastels) 1876 1879

1858 1866 1868

The Little Dancer bronze, ribbon, tulle

1881

Renoir
o o o o

Monet painting in his Garden La Loge Port.-Mlle Charpentier and daughters Luncheon on the Boating Party 1874

1873

1876 1881

Pissarro
o o

LHermitage in Pontoise Factory in Pontoise

1867 1873

Caillebotte
o o

Floor Cleaners Paris Street in Rainy Weather

1876 1877

Morisot
o o

Woman at her Toilette The Cradle 1873

1875-1880

Cassatt
o

Tea

1880

The Childs Bath

1893

Manet
o o o o

Guitarist Dejeuner Sur LHerbe Olympia Emile Zola in his Studio

1860 1863 1863 1868

Monet
o o o o o

La Grenouillere Grainstack (Snow, Sunlight, Dawn) Rouen Cathedral (Sunlight, Dawn, Dusk) Water Lilies Lily Pond-Giverny

1869 1890, 1891 1892 1900s 1920s

COMPARISONS:
Renoir Monet

Grenouilliere Grenouilliere

1869 1869

Monet Manet

Blvd Capucines Caf Concert

1873 1874

Monet Manet

Argenteuil Argenteuil

1874 1874

Manet Cassatt

Boating The Boating Party

1891 1893

Good resources: Japonisme in Western Painting Pissarro and Pontoise 12 Views of Manets Bar Monets Table; Cooking Journals Klaus Berger Rich Brettell Bradford Collins Claire Joyes

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