Edouard Manet, 1832-83
"From now on I will be of our times and work with what I see,..."
He destroyed his older paintings and took up the techniques of the "Impressionists"
Characteritistics:
- Painted with pure colors
- Used more black than the other impressionists
- Used light as his subject
- Abandoned Renaissance perspective
- More interested in optical sensations than with humanity
- Detached and non-judgemental
- More traditional brush strokes than the other Impressionists
Dejeuner sur l'erbe
Olympia
Berthe Morisot (1841 - 1895)
- first woman to join the circle of the French impressionist painters
- exhibited in all but one of their shows
- Born into a family of wealth and culture. Went firmly against convention by choosing to make painting and drawing her life's work.
- Having studied for a time under Camille Corot, she later began her long friendship with Edouard Manet, who became her brother-in-law in 1874 and was the most important single influence on the development of her style.
Unlike most of the other impressionists, who were then intensely engaged in optical experiments with color, Morisot and Manet agreed on a more conservative approach, confining their use of color to a naturalistic framework.
- Carefully composed, brightly hued canvases are often studies of women, either out-of-doors or in domestic settings.
Cache et Cache
La Lecture
The Artist's Sister
In a Park
Claude Monet 1840 - 1926
" No objects - only light"
- Mechanics of vision a mjor concern
- Pigments combined on the canvas not on the palatte
- contended that black was not a color (scientifically it is the absence of color)
- Painted many objects in different lights (i.e. Rouen Cathedral, Haystacks)
- His painting "Impression, Sunrise" gave the movement it's name
- Broken brush strokes
- Build up of paint on the canvas - texture
- Often no composition in the classical sense
- Not popular during his lifetime
Auguste Renoir 1841 - 1919
- Popular during life and now
- Started as a painter of china
- Loved painting people - women in particular
- Ability to create the illusion of soft, glowing flesh
- Also painted the affects of light
- Used bright color
- Broken brush strokes
- Definite, subject matter
- Often captures a moment - life a photograph
Edgar Degas, 1834 - 1917
- Also specialised in women - graceful - Dancers
- Horses
- Painted in his studio, used models to create illusion of spontainaity
- Paintings looked like snapshots of life
- Often off-center, or from an unusual angle
- Part of the subject cut off from the picture (as in a photo)
- Used photographs in his work
- Painted in oils and pastels
- Chauvinists
Mary Cassatt, 1844 - 1926
- American
- Female
- Influenced by two-dimensional Japanese wood-cuts
- Often subject was mother and child
- Paintings are scenes in which we may look but are not invited into
- Intimate
- Smoother texture than the others
Auguste Rodin, 1840 - 1917
- Greatist sculptor since Bernini
- Spontaneity and immediacy of Impressionism in three-dimensions
- Bodies always moving or under stress
- Sometimes no head to distract from the body
- Bronze sculptures - surfaces glimmer with light and add to the visual statement
- Similar to Michelangeo - super human pose
- Enigmas
