Unit 5 Individual Project

HUMA 205-1402A
4/27/2014

Impressionist art is a style in which the artist captures the image of an object as someone would see it if they just caught a glimpse of it. They paint the pictures with a lot of color and most of their pictures are outdoor scenes. Their pictures are very bright and vibrant. The artists like to capture their images without detail but with bold colors. There were many great impressionist artists.
Artist of the impressionist period Edourard Manet was an artist in the years of 1832-1833. He was a founding father of Impressionism and was a crucial part of Salon des Refusés in 1863. Edourard Manet was an artistic influence to many impressionist artists. He claimed to not be himself as an Impressionist though. He said he would not be labeled as that and did not exhibit with the others. Many impressionists borrowed from his style also. Manet influenced development of Impressionism.
Olympia which was created in 1863 was a famous painting that Manet created. His style in this period was characterized by loose brush strokes, simplification of details, and the suppression of transitional tones. Adopting the current style of realism initiated by Gustave Courbet, he painted The Absinthe Drinker and other contemporary subjects such as beggars, singers, Gypsies, people in cafes, and bullfights. After his early years, he rarely painted religious, mythological, or historical subjects such as his Christ Mocked, now in the Art Institute of Chicago, and Christ with Angels, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

The roughly painted style and photographic lighting in these works was seen as specifically modern, and as a challenge to the Renaissance works Manet copied or used as source material. His work is considered 'early modern', partially because of the black outlining of figures, which draws attention to the surface of the picture plane and the material quality of paint. He also created the paintings Singer at the Café concert in 1878 and also in 1873 La Parisienne Study of Ellen Andree. He completed painting his last major work, A Bar at the Folies-Bergere in 1882 and it hung in the Salon that year.1875 a French edition of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven included lithographs by Manet. In 1881, with pressure from his friend Antonin Proust, French government awarded Manet the Legion d'honneur.
Another art form was abstract art. Abstract Impressionism is Art of abstract painting where the artist expresses themselves through the use of colors, with no need of objective representations. In Abstract Impressionism small brushstrokes builds large area of painting. They exhibit control of large abstract areas, expressing the artist's mental focus on inner emotions and wisdom. Abstract painting is very similar to regular impressionist art but shape, texture or color of painted object is not important in abstract impressionism. Any detail of panted object can be ignored.
While in the Abstract Expressionism are brushstrokes large and bold and paint was applied in a rapid outpouring of emotion and energy, the Abstract Impressionist's short and intense brushstrokes or non-traditional application of paints and textures is done slowly and with or without purpose.
Mante was also an abtract artist as well but we’re going to focus on someone different such as Claude Monte. Claude Monet was raised in Normandy, and was initially introduced to painting by Eugene Boudin, who was known for his work that depicted the Channel Coast. Early on in his career, Claude Monet only enjoyed a limited amount of success for the works he created. Many of these depicted landscapes and seascapes, and certain portraits of his were accepted into exhibits, in the 1860s. However, many of the famous pieces that became well known later on in his career, were not accepted early on, due to the fact this his style of art had not been accepted in his time.
Claude Monet turned to figures that he was familiar with, and would paint people and figures that he knew in the works he was creating. He would also test models and test subjects for the new creations and pieces of art that he was creating on through and in his career. Monte followed the Barbizon painters style and took close approach with nature, outdoors, and natural elements in general. The Barbizon painters worked on a small scale while Monte focused on large easels and canvases and when he had a base sketch he would later perform the art in his studios. European conventions rejected Claude because he wanted to capture nature at its purest form and exactly as it was. European approach was to bold colors, design styles and abstract art which were something he turned away from. Real life images were what he saw and images he created were realistic as well. Two dimension assortment and asymmetrical arrangements with his work was inspired by Japanese wood block prints and he abandoned the notion of 3d element worked with linear for when he painted and did his creating. He used broad ranges of colors and light colored primers were also a main tool used on canvases rather than dark that was used for traditional paintings.
Baroque painting defines as Architecture and sculpture. One of the greatest exponents of Spanish painting, the artist Diego Velazquez was a court painter to King Philip IV during the period of the Spanish Baroque. He has completed over 20 portraits of the King along with others of the Royal Family and their friends. The naturalistic style in which he was trained provided a language for the expression of his remarkable power of observation in portraying both the living model and still life. Stimulated by the study of 16th-century Venetian painting, he developed from a master of faithful likeness and characterization into the creator of masterpieces of visual impression unique in his time. With brilliant diversity of brushstrokes and subtle harmonies of colour, he achieved effects of form and texture, space, light, and atmosphere, that make him the chief forerunner of 19th-century French Impressionism.
He was the only painter then working in Spain who knew that colour pigments which are a dry insoluble substance, usually pulverized, which when suspended in a liquid vehicle becomes a paint, ink, etc, may and should be convertible into coloured light; that modeling is merely the registration of the significant degrees of light reflected to the eye from the form under observation. He was Spanish so we do know that he had to be very creative just as the other artist but wanted to add a zest to his paintings. All of the artist made an great impact on the era’s upon which they created art. They have made their marks and went on with their lifes. They all have passed away. One thing I can say that it’s not just one in particular type of art. There are many different art forms as well as styles and types all around the world. You just have to go out and search and look to explore what we as the younger generation do not know.

References

www. Visualarts.com www.baroque.org www.claude-monet.com * Unit 4: Baroque, Enlightenment & Romantic Age * Unit 4: The Baroque Period * Unit 4: Impressionism * Unit 4: Post-Impressionism & Art Nouveau * Unit 4: Avant-garde * Unit 4: The Belle Époque

Claude Monte Self potriait 1886
Claude Monte Self potriait 1886

Olympic 1863
Olympic 1863
Las Meninas 1656
Las Meninas 1656