VPHA46H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Paul Gauguin, Cloisonnism, Pointillism
6 Dec 2017
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Exam format: list to study for the exam; art pieces, key terms will be posted on bb, study chapter 19; timeline of history; and images on the list; modern evolves. Women and impressionism: marie cassatt, morisot: marries manet"s brother; cradle" quiet snapshots, domestic interiors; women spent more time indoors, outside but behind railing; closed off, cassatt: actively viewing, not averting the gaze, powerful female character. Caillebotte: paris street , rainy day haussmann: uniform look, re create the city, rebuilt. Impressionist exhibit; launched their own exhibitions: emergence of art critic; press, catalogues and art market. No hierarchy (equalized and modernized: what does it mean to be modern, the everyday has significance, fleeting, break through in technology and enlightenment. Decentralization of art, access to materials, mass produced, not specialized cosmopolitan (worldly) Democratic image: light through the day: made into one image le bec du hoc, pointillism: made out of many little dots/ points complementary colours; science of the eyes, colour and light.
