Chapter 2: Sad people with fun colors

Question 1

Post Impressionism

Answer 1

• Rejection of the spontaneity and formlessness of impressionism
• Effort to deepen the meaning of art conceptually not perceptually.
• dissatisfaction with naturalistic accuracy
• focused on the subjective vision of the artist, and works of art became ways to see into the artists mind and soul
• symbolic and personal meanings in art were very important
• Artistic styles of the time leaned towards highly geometric abstraction or non-geometric but highly expressive abstraction

Question 2

Answer 2

• Bathers, Asnieres- Georges Seurat (1884)
• pointillism
• Young factory boys taking a swim, with industrial paris in the background. Contour lines are non existent, edges are informed by the contrast of colors next to each other. Very attentive to color and its proximity to other colors to create shades and gradients on the canvas without blending.

Question 3

Bec du hawk

Answer 3

• The Bec du Hoc at Grandcamp, Georges Seurat (1885)
• Pointillism
• The colored dots are clearly seen as separate from one another. The proximity of the colors are used to create the colors and gradients instead of blending.

Question 4

Babe gone a fishin

Answer 4

• Woman Fishing, Georges Seurat (1884-85)
• sketch for Sunday Afternoon
• creates effect on rough paper with conte crayon similar to pointillism

Question 5

Sunday afternoon with the fam

Answer 5

• Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat (1884-86)
• A noticeably still painting, the figures and activities are frozen in place. This was the result of how long the pointillism process took to complete a painting.
• Intense colors, and intense contrast between light and shadow.
• depicts a mix of upper and middle class people during leisure time.

Question 6

Dis bitch on a horse

Answer 6

• The Circus, Georges Seurat (1890-91)
• The Circus has much more movement following critique of the stillness of Seurat’s other paintings.
• Pointillism is used, with edges still defined by individual dots of color
• The image is cropped, and some of the curvilinear lines seem to be influenced by art nouveau

Question 7

Cezanne

Answer 7

• Most Important artist of the 19th century, Cezanne was from Aix en Provence in France. His family was Not well liked but powerful, and his father wanted him to be a lawyer.

Question 8

dead people cannot own property so idk why a hanged man gets to own a damn house

Answer 8

• House of the Hanged Man, Paul Cezanne (1872-73)
• Contained and Condensed spaces in the middle ground squeezed between the foreground and background, a characteristic of post-impressionist painting
• Ambiguous forms in space that are undefined as specific objects
• planes of color give structure the the buildings and landscape

Question 9

omg l’estaque is bae

Answer 9

• The Bay from L’Estaque, Paul Cezanne (1886)
• The vantage/viewing point of is high above the subject matter.
• Sections of color define the background and middle ground while the houses are defined by blocks of vibrant solid color.
• The water is a dense blue mass, a very different approach than the impressionists took where water was painted with every fleck of light and shadow.

Question 10

damn it paul i was gonna make pie but NO. you took all the fucking apples so you could PAINT THEM.

Answer 10

• Still Life with Basket of Apples, Paul Cezanne (1890-94)
• Multiple view points are fused in one image, which can be seen in the vantage point differences between the table, and the angle of the dish, basket, etc.
• objects are painted using blocks of solid color and dark contour lines which flatten the image.

Question 11

Ambroise BROllard lol

Answer 11

• Portrait of Ambroise Vollard, Paul Cezanne (1899)
• Vollard was an art dealer who bought impressionist paintings.
• Centered on the canvas, the subject is holding something with legs crossed.
• Legs are squished in reduced space of foreground
• the interior space is very ambiguous, and multiple vantage points may have been combined to create the image.

Question 12

french people like naming landmasses after saints or something, apparently this guys name was victor.

Answer 12

• Mont Sainte-Victoire, Paul Cezanne (1904-06)
• Outside Aix en Provence, this painting was created later in his life.
• The middle ground is ambiguous with visible brushstrokes, possibly abstracted forest.
• Mountains and sky are very close to the same color to show atmospheric blurring

Question 13

Still life, Apples, Pears, and the marijuana

Answer 13

• Still Life, Apples, Pears, and Pot, Paul Cezanne (1900-04) - still life sketch, focuses on use of charcoal

Question 14

no one calls me great when I shower.

Answer 14

• The Great Bathers, Paul Cezanne (1898-1906)
• Composition has a triangular formation, with the back ground in perspective.
• Water sky and trees all blend together
• the middle space is again condensed and collapsed.