Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Chapter 23 Study Guide


Europe and America, 1870-1900

Impressionism
  • Monet, Impression: Sunrise, 1872
  • Monet, Rouen Cathedral: The Portal (in Sun), 1894
  • Renoir, Le Moulin de la Galette, 1876
  • Manet, A Bar at the Folies Bergere, 1882
  • Degas, The Tub, 1886
Post Impressionism
  • Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge, 1892-1895
  • Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte, 1884-1886
  • Van Gogh, Starry Night, 1889
  • Gauguin, Vision after the Sermon, 1888
  • Gauguin, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? 1897
  • Cezanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1902-1904
Symbolism
  • Moreau, The Apparition, 1874-1876
  • Redon, The Cyclops, 1898
  • Munch, The Scream, 1893
  • Rodin, The Gates of Hell, 1880-1900

  1. How did the term ‘Impressionist’ come to be applied to the group of painters that included Monet, Renoir, and Degas?
  2. What was the primary goal of the Impressionist painters?
  3. What are the two major influences on Impressionist composition?
  4. What does the term ‘local color’ mean?
  5. What did Monet hope to achieve with his many series paintings (such as the grainstacks, Rouen Cathedral, and the waterlilies)?
  6. Who was Baron Georges Haussmann and what role did he play in the modernization of Paris?
  7. Why is the term ‘Post Impressionism’ problematic?
  8. What sets the paintings of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec apart from those of the Impressionists?
  9. What is Pointillism (also referred to as divisionism or Neo Impressionism)?
  10. Where was Vincent van Gogh when he painted Starry Night?
  11. How does Gauguin’s use of colour differ from the Impressionists?

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