COA 2242 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Georges Seurat, Brushstrokes, Neo-Impressionism

• School: Georgia Tech
• Department: College of Architecture
• Course: COA 2242
• Professor: Medina

Document Summary

Impressionism (monet, impression: sunrise, 1872 // monet, waterlilies, 1900) content: painted light effects . Expressive language of colors, lines charles henry. Colors = mood // lines = mood. Techniques to generate the mood for the viewer within the painting. Colors: divided colors in divided brushstrokes = optical experience. Stephane mallarme: paint not the thing itself, but the effect it produces. Seurat, a sunday on la grande jatte, 1886, neo-impressionism: mood. Paul cezanne, self-portrait, early 1879 (failed painting) // late 1879 (successful painting) Realization of the motif > this is what he wanted to accomplish. To realize = to achieve in colors, textures. The paint the wallpaper in the face and the face in the wallpaper (continuity between background and his image) Everything is a diamond shape > diamond shape brushstroke. Cezanne in a red armchair, 1893 taking on qualities of armchair. Rounded shoulders = rounded back of armchair. Hands folded = upholstered stitching of chair.