MUAR 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Polytonality, Christian Liturgy, Art Music
4 Feb 2017
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French movement developed by painters who tried to capture a first, fleeting image of a subject through innovative use of light, color and perspective. Demonstrates a fascination for continuous change in the appearance of places and things, in the play of changing light, in presenting more or less distinct images and moods with minimally sketched detail. Reaction against the grandiose imagery, dramatic action and heroic historical themes that inspired much late romantic art. Self-consciously oppositional to the aesthetic of photographic realism currently in vogue in much of europe in the late 19th century. In painting: monet, renoir, impressionist paintings are characterized by: Soft, pastel hues, creatively mixed washes of color. Very pretty and pleasant subjects (nature, water, nudes) Debussy has traditionally been described as an impressionist" (he himself disapproved of the term); he wrote many piano pieces with titles evocative of nature, for example reflets dans l"eau; writing music is like painting a canvas.
