Post-impressionism/Symbolism Flashcards
Artist: Rodin
Title: The Gates of Hell
Date: 1880
Style/Country: Post-impressionism, France
Significance: Based upon Dante’s Inferno, figures are meant to be tortured, twisting, falling, chaotic, people didn’t like it because it looked too real.
Artist: Rodin
Title: The Thinker
Date: 1880
Style/Country: Post-impressionism, France
Significance: very severe mood, meant to look like he is looking over hell, used people he knew for models.
Artist: Georges Seurat
Title: Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
Date: 1885
Style/Country: Post-impressionism, France
Significance: uses pointilism to mix colors together by dotting primary colors together. harmony, as all the dots are the same size.
Artist: Henri de Toulouse- Lautrec
Title: Moulin Rouge: La Goulue
Date: 1891
Style/Country: post-impressionism, France
Significance: example of a lithograph that captures the night life of Toulouse
Artist: Van Gogh
Title: The Night Cafe
Date: 1888
Style/Country: post-impressionism, France/ Netherlands
Significance: skewed perspective with lots of clashing colors (red and green) to make viewers feel uncomfortable similar to the different personalities within the tavern
Artist: Van Gogh
Title: Starry Night
Date: 1889
Style/Country: Post-impressionism, France/Netherlands
Significance: abstract, observing nature in an abstract way, purpose was to express emotion through color.
Artist: Gaugin
Title: Vision after the Sermon
Date: 1888
Style/Country: Symbolism, France
Significance: the people on the left side have blurred faces as they can’t see the sermon, whereas those on the right are able to see. The tree seperates the two levels of reality, biblical story vs. real life. Gaugin paints himself as the preacher.
Artist: Cézanne
Title: Mont Sainte Victoire
Date: 1887
Style/Country: post-impressionism, France
Significance: focuses more on the technical process of painting, and how light breaks down forms, uses planes of color.
Artist: Cézanne
Title: Still life with Apples
Date: 1895
Style/Country: Post-impressionism, France
Significance: not linear perspective, but rather the combination of many different perspectives. Weird distortions of space, and unrealistic looking bowl.
