 1870s-1890’s

 Industrial Revolution  Franco-Prussian War  London ‘Tube’ is built

 Asymmetrical balance, Odd angles  pure colors with shadows, arbitrary colors  thick paint, subject matter  Lacking finished details  Influenced by photography and Japanese prints  Main media was paint  Used ‘Broken Color’ technique Captured light as a moment of time  Realistic impressions of what was seen, imperfections in subject matter (Rodin)

 Claude Monet: French painter. Captured light as a moment of time  Vincent Van Gogh: Dutch painter, used bright colors and line to show emotion.  Mary Cassatt: American painter, painted domestic scenes of women and children  Auguste Rodin – French sculpted the Thinker

 Was the start of the modern era and 1800s art movement that began as an organization of Paris- based artists  These artists were ridiculed for creating ‘unfinished’ paintings.