Post-Impressionism Flashcards
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Paul Cezanne
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- Took inspiration from Impressionism’s bold colour pallete
*Didnt like the lack of structure that Impressionism had - Painted the Mont Saint-Victoire over 60 times
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Cezanne Subject matter
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- He painted still lifes, portraits and bathers because they didnt move and he could arrange them as he pleased
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Cezanne Space and depth
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- Didnt have all lines meeting at one viewpoint
- Embraced the flatness of the canvas and created flat-space
- He didnt want to directly copy from nature but create constructions from nature
- His perspective was usually wrong or inaccurate
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Cezanne Colour
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- Same bright colours as Impressionism but more constructed
- Outlined his shapes
- Modulation-One colour area led or related to another colour
- Shadows were like solid shapes
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Cezanne Brushwork
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- Strokes were intentional and firm
- Rectangular and expressed rhythmic form over emotion
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Cezanne composition
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- Depicted the underlying shapes and forms of objects rather than the appearance
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Cezanne Approach
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- Considered a formalist because he respected structure through the arrangement of line, colour, shape
- Worked intellectually
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Still-life with basket of apples
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- Reflects his personality because he could the apples and other elements however he wished
- Everything is intentional, eventhough the placement looks random
- Took his 100 working days to complete
- Table is distorted as it disappears beneath table cloth at one level and reappeares at a different level
- Appearance of reality is denied over a pictorIal reality
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The Large Bathers
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- Figures fit in with their surroundings
- Ignores laws of anatomy and elongates the figures
- Removes them of sensual beauty
- Heaviness of forms is emphasised
- Wanted to emphasise his desire to portray the structure underneath appearances
- Grouped figures on the left and rigth form a pyramid-like composition
- Gave figures the same concrete, solid feel as his still-lifes
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Vincent van Gogh
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- Had sympathy for the poor
- Style was simplicistic with an informal technique
- Reflected his own personality and need to express hiimself
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Vincent van Gogh
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- Had sympathy for the poor
- Style was simplicistic with an informal technique
- Reflected his own personality and need to express hiimself
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Van Gogh subject matter
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- Landscapes, still-lifes, portraits
- Worked from nature but included his emotional response
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Van Gogh Space/Depth
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- Alsoo had depth and a large mass in the middle of the canvas
- Horizon was usually 3/4 of the canvas
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Van Gogh Colour
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- Colour was used very emotionally
- Placed complimentary colours next to eachother
- Yellows were often placed next to blues
- Use of colours started out as sombre then progressed to lighter
- Colours were pure and exaggerated
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Van Gogh Brushwork
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- Paint applied with brush, palette knife or from the tube
- Physical indication of his emotional state
- Created strong linear pattern that created rhythmic movement
