Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Symbolism Flashcards
Impressionism
mainstream, simplistic aesthetic, pleasing and calming
revolutionary cut edge not accepted by artists and reject by Paris Salons, modern
away from academic paint and thick brush strokes full force in Monet
critics say half hazard, unfinished look
Optical Color
color as it appears to the eye and how eye perceives color
Impasto Brush Stroke
thick brush stroke, texture and can be seen rests eye on the surface (Modernists)
Post-Impressionism
sketchy like and loose brush work, indistinct lines, flat space,
Impressionism work style and subject matter
Sub: modern life
Style: sketchy
influenced with artists interest and experience
Post Impressionism:
public more accepted it
artists wanted to look at line, color, pattern, and form. Thought impressionists focused too much on light and color (optical color and light)
Interest in expressive capability of formal elements and abstract
push beyond color and light and use formal elements into a more expressive way to express an image and express themselves so viewer can understand content
look for possibilities of formal elements look for works very expressive and abstract shows how artists see the world
infuse work with artists own thoughts, feelings, subjective not objective
Abstract
purposeful distortion and exaggeration as way to dive content and meaning of work
Expressive
post impressionism interest in expressive capability of the formal elements
Arbitrary Color
any color you want it to be
subjective, expressive it can be to determine color of something
subjective not objective
Pointillism
new innovative science: dots of color that the eye will mix and pure composition of color to create the shades
Simultaneous Contrast
2 colors side by side interact with each other to change out perception of that color and do not see color in isolation red next to color.
Synthetism
synthesize observation of subject in nature look at the natural world and synthesize with feelings on subject matter
ideals for post impressionism
Symbolism
Realist/Modernism: realists subject matter show poor in society and show how poor experience the world
Style: local it is what it is color
reject physical world and interpert the world through artist imagination not reality
use formal elements: L + C +line to express artist person response to the world
world of fantasy interior life and of spirit and intuition of the arts
reject factual representation of realists against materialism and valuism from industrial saw it as trival
visionary, mysterious, Sigmund Freud of psychoanalysis, unconscious and subject experience, dreams
is theory of Aestheticism
Local color
it is what it is color
Aestheticism
rid art of literature of anything utilitarian and cultivate exaggerated aesthetic and pleasing to the eye
interest in fantasy, dreamlike world
like romantic as means of circumventing reason and rationality
dreams go into subconscious and imagination
