Art at the turn of the century

ART AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY
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Impressionism: The style of painting in this period
placed a lot of emphasis on the play of light and how
it could alter a scene and the objects within it.
To better capture an impression painters observed
reality by painting “en plain air”.
Colour took precedence over form.
Short and quick brushtrokes were placed side by side
so that a distance faded into one.
Impressionism started in France with artists Edouard
Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and
Alfred Sisley.
Le Chemin de Fer (The Railroad)
1872-73 (170 Kb); Oil on canvas, 93 x 114
cm (36 1/2 x 45 in); National Gallery of Art,
Washington
On the Beach
1873; Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Claude Monet, San Giorgio
Maggiore at Dusk, 19081912, Oil on canvas,
National Museum of
Cardiff, Wales
Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil
levant), 1872; the painting that gave its
name to the style. Musée Marmottan
Monet, Paris
Renoir, Dance at Le Moulin de la
Galette (Bal du moulin de la
Galette), 1876
Pierre Auguste Renoir, Luncheon of the
Boating Party, 1880–1881, The Phillips
Collection, Washington, D.C.
POST-IMPRESSIONISM
In the mid 1880s several artists began to
distance themselves from impressionism to
explore geometry, colour, lines, etc.
 Edgar Degas, Georges Pierre Seurat, Paul
Cézanne, Vincent Van Gogh, Henri
Toulouse-Lautrec and Eugène Henri Paul
Gauguin
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Edgar Degas, A Cotton Office in New Orleans, 18
La Clase de Danza (La Classe de Danse),
1873–1876, óleo sobre lienzo, Edgar
Degas
L'Absinthe, 1876, óleo sobre lienzo, Edg
Degas
Les joueurs de cartes (The Card Players), 1892-95, oil on canvas, 60 x 73
cm, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Self-Portrait, Spring 1887, Oil on
pasteboard, 42 × 33.7 cm., Art Institute of
Chicago (F 345)
The Potato Eaters, 1885, Van Gogh Museum