HIST - Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, Synthetism

Question 1

a movement in French painting sometimes called “optical realism” because of its scientific interest in the actual visual experience and effect of light and movement

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Impressionism

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a landscape impressionist and leader of the pleinarists; adapted the practice of painting a single subject a number of times in varying lights and seasons

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Claude Monet

Question 3

people who believed in working outdoors

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Pleinarists

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painted with full brush and full strokes; placing a concentration of light on an important feature of the picture to record the impression of the eye naturally and immediately receives

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Edouard Manet

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worked with pastels and oil; favorite subject was ballet

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Edgar Degas

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artist of genre and portrait of real people; interested in the interplay of colors caused by flickerings of sunshine and shadow; tone harmonies by light refractions

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Pierre August Renoir

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a sculptor; interested in conveying dynamic experimental process rather than in the finished work itself

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Rodin

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a movement in French painting that reacted against the empirical realism of Impressionism by relying on systematic calculations and scientific theory to achieve predetermined visual effects

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Post Impressionism

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originated the pointillism technique (also confettiism)

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George Pierre Seurat

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the skillful putting side-by-side touches of pure color; the practice of applying small strokes or dots of color to a surface so that from a distance they visually blend together

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Pointillism

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a movement providing an intellectual alternative to the purely visual painting of the impressionists, inspiring surrealists

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Symbolism

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he applied paint smoothly; colors are bright in flat, unmodeled shapes; he painted tropical landscapes and brown-skinned natives

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Paul Gaugain

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a theory of art that posted works of art ought to blend three primary elements: the outward appearance of the subject, the artist’s emotional reaction, and artistic choices of color, form, and line

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Synthetism

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pre-cubism: simple handling of masses and planes given depth by structure, color, and unconventional perspective

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Paul Cezanne