(LEA2) Art Gallery

Art Gallery

AP Art Gallery

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Characteristics of Realist Paintings

  1. The subject must be viewed or experienced by the artist.
  2. The viewer must be made to feel that the artist has presented the subject exactly as he saw it. Even if he changes the scene or creates it out of whole cloth, it can't look like it.
  3. The Realist painting is made in a way that shows the "hand" of the artist--it looks like a painting, not a photograph.

Characteristics of Impressionism

  1. Small canvas, painted out of doors
  2. Canvas primed in white instead of the traditional red-brown
  3. Black is eliminated from the palette unless it is the color of an element in the composition
  4. Rapid brush strokes to record the reflection of light off of surfaces
  5. Unblended patches of color, side-by-side, that was thought to blend in the eye
  6. Scenes of outdoor recreation, modern urban subjects

Impressionist Art Reflects the Artist's Interest In

  • Science, especially the study of optics and how light is reflected and received by the eye
  • How the brain processes the information it receives from the eye
  • The principles of color theory; and, the influence of Positivism
  • Other influences on art include photography and Japanese wood block prints, and the writings of Charles Baudelaire, who urged "the painting of modern life"

Post-Impressionism Is

  • a broad reaction against Impressionism. The works continued to use the bright Impressionist palette, but rejected Impressionism's emphasis on the recording of light and color.
  • a focus on the personal experience of the painter, versus the faithfulness to record the object like in Impressionism.
  • based on presenting the style of the work, developing a new method of paint application or viewing the piece from multiple angles.
  • more personally expressive, with bright colors.

Review the Later Europe and Americas II works in the Art Gallery presentation below.

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