Post-Impressionism

Or, Fixing Impressionism

St. Lawrence, 12/6/2015
Sunday, December 06, 2015
Course Outline

Post-Impressionism

Cézanne

Seurat

Van Gogh

Gauguin

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Key Notions

-Color sensation
-Flat tint
-Pointillism
-Symbolism

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 Baroque (1600-1750)
Rococo (1715-1775)
Neoclassicism (1750-1824)
Romanticism (19th)
Realism (Mid to end of 19th)
Impressionism (End of 19th, start of 20th)
Post-Impressionism (End of 19th, start of 20th)
Cubism (start of 20th)
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 Stabilizing the moment

 Beyond impressions
 Time period
 Variety of experimental avenues
 Variety of techniques
 Portraits, genre scene, landscape, still-life

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Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)

Or, Artistic Truth

 Self-Portrait
c. 1875, Oil on canvas, 64 × 53 cm, Musée d'Orsay

Post-Impressionism
• Color sensations to express reality
• Urban, industrial and rural themes
• Space acquires life
• Freedom from academic knowledge
• Capturing the fleeting moment

Post-Impressionism
• More of a time period, not a unified movement
• Form/color has to be bound
• Stabilizing the fleeting moment
• Different perspectives, not just times
• Going beyond sensations
• Patience in painting
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La Montagne Sainte-Victoire

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 Ginger Jar and Fruit
c. 1895, Oil on canvas, 73 x 60 cm, The Barnes
Foundation, Pennsylvania

Source: 8 Seurat Van Gogh Gauguin Post-Impressionism, St. Lawrence, 06/12/2015, Beaudoin
 Apples and Oranges
1895-1900, Oil on canvas, 73 × 92 cm, Musée
d'Orsay

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 Large Bathers
c. 1906, Oil on canvas, 208 × 249 cm,
Philadelphia Museum of Art

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Georges Seurat (1859-1891)

Or, Painting Vibrancy

 Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
1884-86, 225x340, Art Institut, Chicago

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 The Models
1888, Oil on canvas, 39 x 49 cm, Private
collection

Source: 7 Cézanne Van Gogh Gauguin Post-Impressionism, St. Lawrence, 06/12/2015, Beaudoin
 The Circus
1891, Oil on canvas, 180 x 148 cm, Musée
d'Orsay, Paris

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Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)

Or, Emotional Intensity

 Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear
1889, Oil on canvas, 60-49 cm, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London

Post-Impressionism
• Space acquires life
• Freedom from academic knowledge
• Different perspectives, not just times
• Going beyond sensations
• Form/color has to be bound
• Stabilizing the fleeting moment

Van Gogh
• Color sensations to express feelings
• Very quick painting (opposes Cézanne)
• Intense (opposes Cézanne)
• Form expressed by brush stokes
(opposes Cézanne)

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 Le père Tanguy
1887, Oil on canvas, 74 x 60 cm, D’Orsay, Paris

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 The Night Café
1888, 70 x 89 cm, Yale University Art Gallery,
New Haven

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 Bedroom in Arles
1890, 57 x 74cm, D’Orsay, Paris

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 Bedroom in Arles
1890, 57 x 74cm, D’Orsay, Paris

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 Wheat Field with Crows
1890, 51 x 101 cm, Musée Van Gogh, Amsterdam

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Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)

Or, Rational Symbolism

 Self-Portrait
1893, Oil on canvas, 45 × 38 cm, D’Orsay

Post-Impressionism
• Space acquires life
• Freedom from academic knowledge
• Different perspectives, not just times
• Going beyond sensations
• Form/color has to be bound
• Stabilizing the fleeting moment

Gauguin
• Color sensations to express the idea
• No texture (opposes Impressionism)
• Thought must be found in painting
(opposes Impressionism, but echoes Cézanne)
• Savage attitude (opposes Classicism)

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 The Vision after the Sermon
1888, Oil on Canvas, 73 × 92 cm, National
Gallery of Scotland

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 The Spirit of the Dead Keep Watch
92,4 x 72,4 cm, Oil on canvas, 1892, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo

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 Ta Matete (We Shall Not Go to Market Today)
1892, Oil on canvas, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland

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 Night Café
1888, Oil on canvas, 73 × 92 cm, Puschkin Museum, Moskow

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Suggested reading
-Gombrich, The Story of Art, p. 413-427
-Cleaver, Art, an Introduction, p. 517-523
-Fiero, The Humanistic Tradition, vol. 5, p. 133-139
-Kleiner, Gardner’s Art through the Ages, p. 879-886

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Bibliography and Sources
1. Adams, Exploring the Humanities
2. Cleaver, Art, an Introduction
3. Davies, Janson’s Basic History of Western Art
4. Fiero, The Humanistic Tradition, vol. 5
5. Gombrich, The Story of Art
6. Kleiner, Gardner’s Art through the Ages
7. www.wga.hu
8. www.wikipedia.com

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