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
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
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:
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
Images
Degas
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Bellelli Family Horse Races (Longchamp) Orchestra at the Opera Absinthe Dance Lesson/Dancers (watercolors, chalks, pastels) 1876 1879
1881
Renoir
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Monet painting in his Garden La Loge Port.-Mlle Charpentier and daughters Luncheon on the Boating Party 1874
1873
1876 1881
Pissarro
o o
1867 1873
Caillebotte
o o
1876 1877
Morisot
o o
1875-1880
Cassatt
o
Tea
1880
1893
Manet
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Monet
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La Grenouillere Grainstack (Snow, Sunlight, Dawn) Rouen Cathedral (Sunlight, Dawn, Dusk) Water Lilies Lily Pond-Giverny
COMPARISONS:
Renoir Monet
Grenouilliere Grenouilliere
1869 1869
Monet Manet
1873 1874
Monet Manet
Argenteuil Argenteuil
1874 1874
Manet Cassatt
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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