Impressionism

• A style movement in painting originating in

France in the 1860’s.
• A literary or artistic style that seeks to capture
a feeling or experience rather than to achieve
accurate depiction.
• Concerns with shifting effect of light and color
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 Pre-Impressionism
• Emerged in France
• Combination of influence and rejection of
Impressionism.
• Rise of individual style, emphasizing use of
broken colors and short brush strokes.
Famous pre-impressionism
artists include:
• Paul Cezanne
• Georges Seurat
• Paul Gauguin
• Vincent Van Gogh
 Paul Gauguin

Miraculous Source
 Paul Cezanne

• The Bay of Marseille, Seen from L'Estaque (1885)

• In scale and resolution, this is the culminating
work of a series of landscapes that Paul Cézanne
painted at L'Estaque, a Mediterranean fishing
village a few miles from Marseilles. During the
early 1880s, he came to cherish L'Estaque as a
retreat from the complexities of family life. It
inspired some of his grandest landscapes, which
are remarkable for the sense of deliberation and
structure in every brushstroke and the finely
balanced palette of blues and ochers.
Vincent Van Gogh
• The Starry Night is an oil on canvas by the Dutch 
post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. Painted in June
1889, it depicts the view from the east-facing window of his
asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise,
with the addition of an idealized village]. It has been in the
permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New
York City since 1941, acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest
. Regarded as among Van Gogh's finest works,[4] The Starry
Night is one of the most recognized paintings in the history of
Western culture.
 Neo-Impressionism
• Response to empirical realism of
impressionism
• The movement rely on a systematic and
scientific technique predetermined visual
effects not only on the artwork itself but
also how the audience perceived the art.
Artists in neo-impressionism
• George Seurat (Leading figure)
• Henri-Edmond cross
• Maximillien Luce
• Camille Pissaro
 George Seurat
• The leading figure of neo-impressionism.
• Young Woman Powdering her Face
• is a portrait of Seurat's mistress Madeleine Knobloch. It is an
adoring likeness that jokingly contrasts the classical monumentality
of the figure against the flimsy Rococo frivolity of the setting. It is
also strongly marked by Seurat's increasing interest in caricature
and popular art, sources which lent a new expressiveness to his
work which accorded with the growing contemporary interest in
Symbolism. Knobloch was a working-class woman with whom
Seurat maintained a long term secret relationship, keeping her
separate not only from his bourgeois family but also from his
bohemian friends. When the painting was shown in 1890, her
identity remained concealed. Knobloch was given some of Seurat's
paintings as an inheritance but she cut off all communication with
his family after his death.
 Camille Pissaro

Road to Versailles at Louveciennes

• Henri-Edmond cross • Maximillien Luce

• Ponte san trovaso • Pointillism. "La Seine a Herblay