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Claude Monet |
Founder of french impressionist painting; 1840-1926 did landscape paintings and Woman with Parasol, Gare St. Lazare, and a series of cathedral paintings. |
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Gustav Caillebotte |
Impressionist painter, did Paris Street: A Rainy Day. Focus on the lack of connection brought on the industrial revolution. He did not identify with impressionist painters but is associated with them anyways. |
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Gare ST. Lazare |
Railway station in Paris, designed by Juste Lisch, opened 1837 |
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En plein air |
French impressionist term which means 'open air' in which the painters would paint outside |
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Baron von Hausmann |
Renovated Paris and made the streets much wider, the center was the wealthy and working class was placed near the edge. |
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Woodblock Print |
Two dimensional way to print text, images, and patterns often used in Asia, originated in China. |
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Japonisme |
Japanese printing blocks. The beauty and aesthetic that inspired many french impressionist artists |
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Mary Cassatt |
1844-1926, painted The Bath, had works displayed in the Salon of 1874. Mostly painted women and children and the relationship between mother and child. |
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Edgar Degas |
Impressionist painter with a fascination for patterns of motion. Did The Rehearsal and used diverging lines to direct the viewers eye. |
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Meisho |
Sites in Japan associated with poetry or literary references |
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The communist manifesto |
1848 political pamphlet by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels calling for the working class to rise against the capital. |
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Impressionism |
Paintings often painted outside with little care for specific lines, focused heavily on light and shadows and colors. |
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The Barbizon school |
Painters part of the art movement towards realism, active 1830-1870. Well known for tonal qualities, loose brushwork,and softness of form (the Gleaners) |
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Olympia |
Edward Manet painting of a shameless nude prostitute looking directly at the viewer, a slave tending to her in the background |
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The Great Wave of Kanagawa |
Woodblock print by Hokusai published 1830-1833, part of a 36 series of views of Mount Fuji. Done in 1831. |
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Ukiyo-e |
Golden age of Japanese prints, pictures of the floating world, end of Edo period |
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The Treaty of Kanagawa |
Commodore Matthew Perry signed with the Japanese to open a port for trade wih the US, 1854 |
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Edo |
Former name of Tokyo during the Tokugawa era-- urban center of fuedal Japan where the emperor resided |
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Bijin |
Beautiful woman in Japanese prints |
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Hokusai |
Artist of the Great Wave, ukiyo-e painter of the Edo period. Created the 36 views of Mount Fuji series |
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Hiroshige |
Utagawa Hiroshige was a Japanese ukiyo-e painter, he did the 100 views of Edo series and was considered the last great master of the tradition. |
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Rue Transnonian |
Honore Daumier, the aftereffects of a sniper shot killing a civil guard and the execution that followed the act. Lithograph, freedom of press limited the year after this was published. |
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The Stone Breakers |
1849, Gustave Courbet-- one old man, one young,meant to portray the endless cycle of those born into the poor lifestyle. Realism painting. |
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Jean-Francois Millet |
1814-1878, painted the Gleaners due to the landowners resisting gleaning rights. Realism painting |
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The Gleaners |
1857, depicting 3 women gleaning the fields after harvesting. Realism painting done by jean-francois millet |
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Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre |
Creator of the daguerreotype photography process in 1839 |
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Daguerreotype |
One of the first two forms of photography; 1839, made by LJM, captured Still Life in the Studio. |
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Julia Margaret Cameron |
Portrayed more men than women, photographer who used blurry and soft edges to capture her subjects. Created Ophelia Study 2 in 1867 |
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Berthe Morisot |
French impressionist painter who did laintingsof domestic subjects and outdoor scenes like Villa at the Seaside and Summer's Day |
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir |
Painted scenes of Parisian nightlife with en plein air lighting such as Le Moulin de la Galette of 1876 |
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The Folies-Bergere |
A cabaret music hall in Paris, France established in 1869 by plumerete |
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The Moulin Rouge |
Henri De Toulouse Lautrec impressionist painting, satiric edge on the line of caricature edges. A scene at the music hall based on observation and familiar scenes |
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Georges Seurat |
Impressionist painter who did pointillism/divisionalsim technique on his painting A Sunday on LA Grande Jatte. Paintings were focused on color theory and the gestalt theory. |
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Divisionism |
Basically pointillism. Observing color and breaking it down into its component parts which are placed on the canvas as dots |
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Starry night |
Created by Vincent van Gogh in an expressionist manner. Painted in 1889. Communicated his feelings about the vastness of the universe |
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Arles |
Van Gogh moved there in 1888 where he painted Night café |
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Paul Gauguin |
Student of Camille Pissarro and painted subjective expression using bright color and abstract patterns. He created vision after the sermon (Jacob wrestling with the angel) and Where do We Come From. He eventually killed himself. |
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Paul Cezanne |
Impressionist painter. He lacked any real form or color in his works and used primarily basic shapes used with wildly abstracted brushstrokes and did works such as Mont Sainte-Victorie and Baskets of Apples. |
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Mont Saint Victoire |
Painting done by Paul Cezanne who used depth, perspective, and unfinished brushstrokes to get the form of the scene down. |
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36 views of Mount Fuji |
Landscape ukiyo-e prints by Hokusai, The Great Wave is a part of them. 1830-1833 |
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100 views of Edo |
Hiroshige was the artist of this woodblock print series of genre life in Japan during the impressionism period. 1856-1859 |
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Mangas |
Hokusai was the first one to use sequential comic style known as mangas in 1811-1820. Focus of movement present |
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Millard Filmore |
1800-1874, 13th president of the United States. |
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Hanshita-e |
Black outlined woodblock prints of the ukiyo-e era |
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Monet La Japonaise |
1876, Claude Monet's wife dressed as a Japanese woman to comment on the culture appropriation happening in France at the time. |
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Suruga Cho (No 8.) |
1856, Hiroshige part of 100 views of Edo, color woodblock print |
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The Bridge In The Rain |
Van Gogh, 1887, after a print of Hiroshige's 100 views of Edo series. A painted copy of a woodcut in a somewhat impressionist manner |
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Plum Estate, Kameido #30 |
Hiroshige color woodblock print from 100 views of Edo. Made in Japan. 1857. Edo period, ansei era. View of the most famous tree in Edo. 'The sleeping dragon plum' killed in 1910 |
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The Noble Savage |
Literary stock character who embodies the concept of an idealized outsider who has not been corrupted by civilization. Also a book regarding Paul Gauguin. |
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French Revolution of 1830 |
'July Revolution' overthrow of Charles X and the Bourbon monarchy. Supporters of the Bourbon would be known as legitimists, of Louis Phillipe Orleanists. The July Ordinances came out the day before it started. |
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Grande Odalisque |
Jean-Auguste-Ingres, 1814, reclining nude Venus with a small head and long limbs. Drew lots of criticism. Unnaturally long leg and hints of the exotic present |
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Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters |
Francesco Goya; 1798, etching and aquatint, from Los Coprichos. Goya being attacked by owls and cats; reason suppressed is meant to appeal to the enlightenment. |
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Third Class Carriage |
Jean Honore Daumier, 1862, glimpse of common folk riding a carriage. Anonymous and insignificant people, those with no plans. A genre setting. |
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Le De'jeuner sur I'Herve |
Luncheon on the grass, 1863. Edward Manet. Two clothed men and one naked woman, references to historical works to show he knew of them. Victorine Meurend was the female model. Brought lots of criticism. |
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The Birth of Venus |
Alexander Cabanel, 1863. Follows the mythology of Venus' birth out of the sea foam, putti are flying around in the sky. Shown at the salon of 1863 |
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Still Life in a Studio |
Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, 1837, daguerreotype, considered a vanitas photo. Created through use of wet plate technology and the first of two methods of photography. Symbolism is hinted at through use of objects. |
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Ophelia Study No. 2. |
1867, Julia Margaret Cameron, photographed with is short focal length for slightly blurred images. Shows a woman with a sunhat looking distant. |
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Paris Commune |
Radical socialist and revolutionary government that ruled Paris from March until May 1871 |
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Flaneur |
The act of strolling, lounging, or loafing. |
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Charles Baudelaire |
French poet and art critic. 1821-1867. Wrote the Flowers of Evil expressing the nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris. Coined the term modernity. |
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Impression, Sunrise |
Claude Monet, 1872, loose and sketchier, a painter of light. Focused on the color and light off the water. A seascape in the morning. |
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St. Lazare Train Station |
1877, Claude Monet. Cut in half between train and people, very hazy and sloppy in brushwork. A scene of the train station. |
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Boulevard des Capucines |
1873, a busy genre scene painted en plein air, leaves a space for the viewer to enter. Done by Claude Monet |
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Paris: A Rainy Day |
Gustave Caillebotte, 1877. A genre scene from a street in Paris, almost realism but associated with the impressionist period. |
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Summer's Day |
Berthe Morisot, 1879. Two women in a boat on a lake. |
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Le Moulin de La Galette |
Pierre Auguste Renoir, 1876. Typical Sunday afternoon at Moulin de La Galette, a genre painting of the impressionist period. |
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A Luncheon at Bougival |
Pierre Auguste Renoir, 1881, a scene of interacting people at a lunch party consisting of some famous people and models. all overlapping and touching with silvery brushwork. |
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The Rehearsal |
Edgar Degas, 1874, part of a series done in different perspectives. Blank space to enter (Japanese concept) |
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The Tub |
Edgar Degas, 1886, inspired by Japonisme print, young woman crouching in the tyb. Important things outlined, everything covered in hatch marks |
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Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte |
Georges Suerat, 1884-1886 divisionism painting, Parasian leisure life, everyone is very aloof and distant with one another. This painting marks the start of post impressionism. |
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The Boating Party |
Mary Cassatt, 1893-1894, created after the impressionist era but stuck closely to the ideals of that era. Mother or nurse holding a squirming infant as a male rows the boat out. |
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Henry Toulouse Lautrec |
1864-1901, did At Moulin Rouge, often painted scenes of night life and questionable characters with a satirical sense to them. |
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Moulin Rouge |
Painting done by Henry Lautrec, a scene of a bar with the artist depicted in the back of the bar. |
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The Potato Eaters |
Van Gogh's first painting done at age 35, 1885, a dark monotone scene of the potato famine in Ireland. People sitting around a table eating potatoes. |
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Starry Night |
Van Gogh, 1889, swirling sky over a night scene, focus on motion and color. He used his brushstrokes to express his emotion. Quiet and pervasive depression present in the painting which was done in an asylum. |
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The Yellow Christ |
1889, Paul Gauguin, shows the Crucifixion of Christ in 19th century northern France. Breton women gathered in prayer, bold lines and cartoonish features |
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The Scream |
1893, Edward Munch, skeletal man screaming with a dark color pattern. His friends have left him and motion is focused on. |
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The Kiss |
Gustav Klint, 1907-1908, embracing figures done in nearly strict abstract patterns with gender contrasts between men and women (rectangles vs circles) |