What is different in POST-Impressionism?? Look at the two paintings below. On the back of your notes sheet give 3 comparisons and three contrasting ideas between the two art movements. (Impressionism vs. POST-Impressionsim) Impressionism (last week) POST-Impressionism (this week)

Post Impressionism Post-Impressionists extended Impressionism while rejecting its limitations. (rebel artists!) They continued using: vivid colors, often thick application of paint real-life subject matter, More Inclined To: emphasize geometric forms, distort form for expressive effect, unnatural or arbitrary colour.

Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890 The Potato Eaters 1885 Van Gogh was very troubled and did not begin his career as a painter early in life: banking , preaching etc. In 1880 he decided art would be how he gave back to humanity. Van Gogh's early pictures are coarsely rendered images of Dutch peasant life `I have tried to emphasize that those people, eating their potatoes in the lamp- light have dug the earth with those very hands they put in the dish, and so it speaks of manual labour, and how they have honestly earned their food'. The Potato Eaters 1885

Van Gogh The Night Café 1888; Impasto-Term for paint that is thickly applied to a canvas or panel so that it stands in relief and retains the marks of the brush or palette knife Van Gogh His new mission, painting, he attacks with a single-minded frenzy, and although he often suffered from extreme poverty and undernourishment he creates about 800 paintings and a similar number of drawings Gogh became obsessed by the symbolic and expressive values of colors and began to use them for this purpose. “ I have tried to express with red and green the terrible passions of human nature….I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad or commit a crime. So I have tried to express, as it were, the powers of darkness in a low public house, by soft Louis XV green and malachite, contrasting with yellow-green and harsh blue- greens, and all this in an atmosphere like a devil's furnace, of pale sulphur..' The Night Café 1888;

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Vincent Van Gogh After his voluntary commitment to an asylum in 1889, he painted several pictures with agitated lines, brilliant colors, and distorted perspective His mental illness is well known. He painted furiously in the last 70 days of his life making 70 paintings He committed suicide shooting himself in the chest in a wheat field and dying 2 days after. Starry, Starry Night 1889 29 x 36 1/4"

He sold only one painting during his lifetime. In 1990 this painting sold for 82.5 million dollars!

Georges Seurat 1859-1891 Bathing at Asnières; 1883-84 79 x 118 1/2 in -sometimes called a “Neo-Impressionist” -was interested in optical and color theories. Seurat believed that by placing tiny dabs of pure colors adjacent to one another, the eye "mixed" the colors visually. Simplified human forms to get the “feeling” of the summer bathers Bathing at Asnières; 1883-84 79 x 118 1/2 in

Pointillism ( this optical painting with dots) was first used by art critics in the late 1880s to ridicule the works of these artists, and is now used without its earlier mocking connotation Georges Seurat men, women and children enjoying the sun on the island in the Seine (river in Paris) Many figures have bourgeois propriety though the lady may show eccentricities of `high life' by having a pet monkey on a lead. It took Seurat two years to complete this 10- foot-wide painting, Under a blazing midafternoon summer sky, we see the Seine flooded with sunshine, smart town houses on the opposite bank, and small steamboats, sailboats, and a skiff moving up and down the river. Under the trees closer to us many people are strolling, others are sitting or stretched out lazily on the bluish grass. A few are fishing. There are young ladies, a nursemaid, a Dantesque old grandmother under a parasol, a sprawled-out boatman smoking his pipe, the lower part of his trousers completely devoured by the implacable sunlight. A dark-colored dog of no particular breed is sniffing around, a rust-colored butterfly hovers in mid-air, a young mother is strolling with her little girl dressed in white with a salmon-colored sash, two budding young Army officers from Saint-Cyr are walking by the water. Of the young ladies, one of them is making a bouquet, another is a girl with red hair in a blue dress. We see a married couple carrying a baby, and, at the extreme right, appears a scandalously hieratic-looking couple, a young dandy with a rather excessively elegant lady on his arm who has a yellow, purple, and ultramarine monkey on a leash. A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, 1884 81 3/4 x 121 1/4 in. (about 7’ x 10’)

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