ARTH 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Post-Impressionism, Georges Seurat, Brushstrokes

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Art History
• Course: ARTH 226
• Professor: Allison Morehead

Document Summary

Primitivism = a way of speaking not just relevant to art, centered on notions of the so-(cid:272)alled (cid:862)pri(cid:373)iti(cid:448)e(cid:863) as opposed to the so-(cid:272)alled (cid:862)(cid:272)i(cid:448)ilized(cid:863). A discourse, a set of cultural practices assigning stereotypical values to (cid:862)(cid:272)i(cid:448)ilized(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)u(cid:374)(cid:272)i(cid:448)ilized(cid:863) or (cid:862)pri(cid:373)iti(cid:448)e(cid:863) ppl, pla(cid:272)es a(cid:374)d things. We will be looking at the values of each and how these values are reversed. Primitivism being a form of appropriation, a key feature of modernism. When images can circulation it opens the flood gates for appropriation, this exposes the power balance. Mythic speech: not one speech, a whole body of utterances, texts images, that combine to make up a cultural myth. Postimpressionism = coined in dec 1910 by english art critic roger fry to refer to the art produced, above all by gauguin, cezanne, van. These 4 artists and others were taking impressionism and do something else with it, extend impressionism, go through it.