ART HIST 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Le Moulin De La Galette (Van Gogh Series), Aerial Perspective, Brushstrokes

• School: UW-Madison
• Department: Art History
• Course: ART HIST 202
• Professor: Dan Fuller

Document Summary

First exhibition was in 1874; rejected by the academy/salon of paris. Impressionism is the art of industrialized, urbanized paris; art of the modern world, not feelings/emotion. Expansion on realism, but wants to depict a moment in time. Degas, monet, cezanne, renoir organized the first in series of exhibitions; 7 total (cid:862)i(cid:373)pressio(cid:374)is(cid:373)(cid:863) (cid:373)ea(cid:374)t (cid:862)unfinished(cid:863); loose, (cid:271)ig (cid:271)rushstrokes = spo(cid:374)ta(cid:374)eit(cid:455: claude monet, impression: sunrise, 1872, oil on canvas. Big focus on the landscape separated from the city; the resort spots. Paris doubled in size; old buildings knocked down to accommodate space. Impressionists were pioneers with painting in the outside; oil paint portable. Depicts a sketchy, loose look of a morning scene. Orange sun above horizon; reflecting on the water. Industry depicted in the background; hard to tell what specifically. Silhouette representation of people on the water. Acknowledges that the painting is an object, not a (cid:862)look through the (cid:449)i(cid:374)do(cid:449)(cid:863) a(cid:374)d draws attention to the paint.