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- Impression: Sunrise
- Artist: Monet
- Era: Impressionism
- Techniques:
- clearly seen brushstorkes
- no attmpt to make it optically accurate
- some attempt to blend paint
- subjective and personal response to nature of the artist
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- Sainte-Lazare Train Station
- Artist: Monet
- Era: Impressionism
- Techniques:
- centrally located
- energy filled
- train emerges from the steam and the smoke
- tall buildings in background = urbanization, part of Parisian landscape
- agitated paint application - short and choppy brushstrokes
- constantly moving
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- Rouen Cathedral
- Artist: Monet
- Era: Impressionism
- Techniques:
- series of about 40 different times of the day
- trying to capture the passing of time
- trying to capture light and color - painting colored light*
- how light dematerializes solid structure
- graduated tones as they caress the building- destroying form and order for fleeting atmospheric effect
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- Water Lilies
- Artist: Monet
- Era: Impressionism
- Techniques:
- capture reflecting, shimmering light
- different times of day and different images
- not meant to distinguish between lillies and reflection
- some have the actual nature next to the reflected nature
- short choppy brush strokes
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- Paris: A Rainy Day
- Artist: Caillebotte
- Era: La Place du Theatre Francais
- Techniques:
- a lot sharper than Monet
- significant to the development of Paris
- junction of spacious boulevards as a result of the redesign of Paris beginning in 1892
- mid-century Paris had 1.5 million people so Napoleon ordered that it be redesigned
- wanted to facilitate the movement of his troops in case of revolution
- Haussman - city superintendent to oversee the entire project - Haussmanization
- sewers, wide boulevards, streetlights, new buildings - symbols of urbanization
- demolished thousands of ancient buildings and streets
- wanted open vistas and wide uninterrupted arteries
- use of informal and assymetrical composition
- figures that seem randomly placed - some are cropped to suggest the transitory nature of the scene-
- rying to capture the impression of urban city life
- shows well-dressed Parisians
- sharing the viewer's space
- atmospheric condiditions - captures cobblestone street filled with water to capture light and color
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- La Place du Theatre Francais
- Artist: Pissaro
- Era: Impressionism
- Techniques:
- panoramic scenes capturing spacious boulevards
- light toned backgrounds - streets with dark accents
- lots of room for pedestrians
- how light is a fugitive and how the colors change according to how the light reflects off of it
- light is part of the busy energy of Paris
- deliberate causalness of figural arrangement
- sense of motion, alters color of pavement to show motion
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- Le Moulin de la Galette
- Artist: Renoir
- Era: Impressionism
- Techniques:
- outdoor cafe/dance hall
- lively atmosphere
- movement of lighting filtering through the trees
- light blurring into figures createing fleeting light
- space spreads out in all direction- casually posed figures
- viewer is a participant because frame is cropped- blues and oranges - repeats colors to move eye
- gentle loose brushstrokes
- lots of white
- emphasis on texture
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- Luncheon of the Boating Party, Bougival
- Artist: Renoir
- Era: Impressionism
- Techniques:
- young women with dog is Renoir's fiance
- free brushstrokes which helps reflect light
- composition controlled by underlying geometry - contrast to impressionism
- figures are very informal
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- A Bar at the Follies Bergere
- Artist: Manet
- Era: Impressionism
- Techniques:
- cafe concert hall
- urban life was stagnant
- bartender is not lively, vacant - become part of still-life in foreground
- her sillhouette mimicks bottles and fruit bowls
- roughly applied brushtrokes in background - relect light
- chandeliers reflect light in hazy quality
- ligth dominates the piece how it reflects off of bottles and in mirror
- flat plane with patches of color
- bar is set frontal and horizontal and is slightly angled to get the reflection of the woman
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- Ballet Rehearsal
- Artist: Degas
- Era: Impressionism
- Techniques:
- frame cuts off spiral staircase and ballerinas - brings viewer into space
- windows in background create dancing shadows
- groups of figures
- more open space in center so that we can focus on lighting and color
- diagonals in floor boards create movement, spontaneous, and off-center
- capture colored light
- rapid brush strokes
- faces seem blurred or hazy
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- The Tub
- Artist: Degas
- Era: Impressionism
- Techniques:
- pastels, dry - rougher texture
- rapid and informal action with the use of dry pastels, linear hatching
- importance of line
- structure is almost geometric
- body in circle in square
- shelf is sharply tilted- little bit of foreshortening
- tension between 2-dimensional surface area and 3-dimensional depth
- not a lot of volume of figure
- shimmery colors
- colors are still autonomous and others are blended
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- The Morning Bath
- Artist: Degas
- Era: Impressionism
- Techniques:
- simple line
- contour of spine is one easy line that defines her form
- areas of shade and color
- continuous curve broken by the line of the tub
- diagonal of bed influenced by angles and planes of Japanese prints
- lighting
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- Villa at the Seaside
- Artist: Morisot
- Era: Impressionism
- Techniques:
- setting is a shaded veranda
- elegant but not ostentatious dress
- gazing out the railing to a sunlit beach below
- beach dotted with umbrellas
- child has discarded a boat that is dominantly red and draws attention to boats in back
- mood is relaxed
- open brushwork
- outdoor painting to capture light - pleinair painting - lighting is characteristic of Impressionism - more outdoor scenes
- no lingering contours or details
- soft focus
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- The Bath
- Artist: Cassat
- Era: Impressionism
- Techniques:
- child's feet underwater
- tenderness between mother and child
- looking down on image - Japanese print influence
- mother is protecting her child due to her position
- diagonals in the position of the woman and the stripes of her clothing
- floral print
- oriental rug alludes to influence of Japanese prints
- space is light because of lighting on child
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- Nocturne in Blue and Gold
- Artist: Whistler
- Era: Impressionism
- Techniques:
- see very little objects because we're so close to pylon of pedestrian bridge
- night time scene - not typical of Impressionism
- touches of yellow and red in buildings and fireworks
- elegantly simple color harmony
- hazy silhouettes
- calm water reflects buildings and light
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- The Falling Rocket
- Artist: Whistler
- Era: Impressionism
- Techniques:
- see very little objects
- night time scene - not typical of Impressionism
- touches of yellow and red in expolsion
- elegantly simple color harmony
- hazy silhouettes
- calm water reflects light
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- Arrangement in Black and Gray: The Artist's Mother
- Artist: Whistle
- Era: Impressionism
- Techniques:
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