Final Paintings (One Prompt) Flashcards
Rouen Cathedral: The Portal (in Sun)
by Monet, 1895, Impressionism
Painting on Prima: first attempt to get colors right,
Impasto and quick brush stroke
Liked doing iterations of the same painting
Capture the fleeting moments of light and shadow
Very unified style
A Sunday on La Grande
by Seurat, 1885, Post-impressionism
Reacting to impressionism by taking various elements farther (subject, light, color, etc.)
Not unified like impressionism so tons of variations
Modernity is not the peak of art
Seurat had a very scientific approach to color to push color to be more real
Pointillism entirely made of dots
Small border around the painting to give your eyes a break
Loss of freedom, less feeling, more strategy
Represent what we’re seeing
The Kiss
by Klimt, 1910, Symbolism
Movement against the uncoupling of spirituality and being (reaction against empiricism and the scientific approach to art.
Klimt is the black sheep of his academy and leads young artists to do a new thing (vienna secession)
Influenced by freud, byzantine
Focused on emotions and the unconscious
Not worried about depth, but interested in spacing
Metro Entrance Porte Dauphine
by Guimard, 1905, Art Nouveau
Glass curtain constructions with steel bars, creating an exoskeleton look
Art Nouveau font is popularized
Part of the modernization of Paris, first metro entrance, People thought the underground metro was like going into a beast, so Guimard played off of that.
Wanted to help people accept modernization
Woman with a Hat
by Matisse, 1905, Fauvism
Fauvism championed by Matisse, reaction to post-impressionism
Wanted to express instead of represent
Express through color, so he claimed that color was arbitrary
Matisse was called a wild beast with color
Lots of different blues and greens and very saturated
