_Arts

The Cliffs at Etretat Title: The Cliffs at Etretat Technique: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 65 x 81,1 cm Location: Williamstown Gallery: Clark Art Institute Year: 1885 Artist: Claude Monet (1840–1926)

Post-Impressionism (1885 - 1905) Post-Impressionism in Western painting, movement in France that represented both an extension of Impressionism and a rejection of that style's inherent limitations. The term Post-Impressionism was coined by the English art critic Roger Fry for the work of such late 19th-century painters as Paul Cézanne, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and others. All of these painters except van Gogh were French, and most of them began as Impressionists; each of them abandoned the style, however, to form his own highly personal art. Impressionism was based, in its strictest sense, on the objective recording of nature in terms of the fugitive effects of colour and light. The Post-Impressionists rejected this limited aim in favour of more ambitious expression, admitting their debt, however, to the pure, brilliant colours of Impressionism, its freedom from traditional subject matter, and its technique of defining form with s...

Woman with Seashell (Femme au Coquillage) Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905) Title: Woman with Seashell (Femme au Coquillage) Year: 1885 Source: http://www.goodart.org/blog/WilliamBouguereau-FemmeAuCoquillage-1885Large.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bouguereau,_William_-_Femme_au_Coquillage_-1885.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nude_kneeling_women http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nude_women_by_posture http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nude_women

Impressionism (1865 - 1885) The history of modern art begins with Impressionism, a movement founded in Paris as an opposition to the rigid traditions favored by institutions such as the Academie des Beaux-Arts. In 1863, Edouard Manet exhibited his painting Dejeuner sur l’herbe at the Salon des Refuses. The painting caused commotion, thus founding the Impressionist movement. Although Manet is the proclaimed leader and founder of the group, he was not present at the first group exhibition or any of the other eight collective Impressionist shows. The movement gained more attention in April of 1874 when a group of artists called Societe Anonyme des Artistes, Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs began exhibiting outside of the official Salon. The same year, the term Impressionism was coined by criticizing journalist Louis Leroy, who worked for the magazine, Le Charivari. The Impressionist style of painting emphasized loose imagery rather than finely delineated pictures. The artists of the movem...