1. Realism
A reaction to Romanticism. Not escapist. No idealization or sensationalism of subjects. It’s got a “hard edge.”
19th Century.
Representation of real life. Facts of the modern world as personally experienced.
Gods and goddesses and heroes are out. Peasants and working class are in
Represented people as they saw them.
Used the medium itself to represent reality.

2. Honore Daumier. Third Class Carriage. 1862.
Working class passengers represented as dignified, despite the de-humanizing effect of modern mass transportation.

3. The Sower
Millet, Jean -Francois
1850 ca.
Again, focus on the quiet and sturdy dignity of the lower classes--peasant.
Before, peasants represented as doltish

4. Caillebotte, Rainy Day Paris (1870s)
Technology--electric light; Hausmann’s reconstruction of Paris

5. Impressionism Closeness to nature.
Worked on the spot in nature rather than from studios.
Capturing an instant or moment.
Interested in light and color.
Soft outlines.
Increased the brightness of the canvas.
Blurred unclean lines.

6. Manet, Bar at the Folies-Bergere 1882
Renoir, Le Moulin de la Galette 1876
Manet, Bar at the Folies-Bergere
1882
Monet, Rouen Cathedral
Degas
L'absinthe (The Glass of Absinthe 1876
Subject matter: Parisian street and café scenes, outdoors, seaside
Purpose: to portray immediate visual sensations of a scene

7. Manet, Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) 1863
SCANDALOUS!!! Why?

8. Pointillism Used small dots. Allowed the eye to blend the colors.
(PART OF POST-IMPRESSIONISM))
Used small dots.
Allowed the eye to blend the colors.
No actual lines.
Very calculated placement of colors.
Careful composition of dots.

9. Seurat, “Un dimanche après-midi à l'Ile de la Grande Jatte”
; ("Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte“)

10. Details and enlargements

11. Paul Gauguin. Tahitian Women on South Beach. 1891-92. Oil on canvas.

12. Vincent Van Gogh. Starry Night over the Rhone.

13. Claude Monet. Impression, Sunrise. 1872. Oil on canvas.

14. Vincent Van Gogh. Self Portrait with Bandaged
Ear Oil on canvas.

15. Vincent Van Gogh. Dr. Gachet. 1890.
Oil on canvas.
Vincent Van Gogh. Mme Roulin
Oil on canvas.

16. Vincent Van Gogh. The Night Café. 1888.
Oil on canvas.
Vincent van Gogh. Café Terrace. 1888
Oil on canvas.

17. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. At The Moulin
Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Moulin Rouge.
1891. Lithograph.

18. Edgar Degas. Four Dancers. c. 1899.
Oil on canvas.
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Rue des Moulins: The Medical Inspection Oil on cardboard

19. Expressionism Emphasis on emotion. Over exaggerated figures.
Expressive concern for psychology.
Less concerned with objects.
More concerned with the effects produced.
Concern with personal experience.
Personal emotion.

20. Edvard Munch. Ashes. 1894. Oil on canvas.

21. Edvard Munch. Anxiety
Oil on canvas.
Edvard Munch. The Scream
Oil on canvas.

22. The Fauves:
Bold colors.
Exaggeration of forms.
Un relatable shapes and forms.
Classic subjects.
Henri Matisse. Woman in a
Purple Coat Oil on canvas.

23. Henri Matisse. Decorative Figure
On and Ornamental Ground
Oil on canvas.

24. Andre Derain. The Bathers. 1907. Oil on canvas.