2. The invention of photography strongly
hit painting and reflecting reality was
not a priority any more.
Many artists started experiencing with
colours, atmosphere, sensations and
representing their subjective point of
view in their works. This marked the
beginning of the avant-garde styles of
the 20th
century.
Boulevard du Temple (1838),
one of the firts daguerrotypes
3. ÉDOUARD MANET
- He admired Velázquez and Goya.
- Transition painter between realism and impressionism
- Some of his works are considered watershed paintings, which mark the beginning of modern
art.
- Impressionist painters admired him
Music in the Tuileries
10. Impression, sunrise
CLAUDE MONET
-The name comes from “impression”. A
critic gave name to the new style from
Claude Monet’ s painting Impression,
Sunrise
- Impressionist artists tried to capture the
moment in their paintings, reflect reality
not as it was, but as they watched it at a
specific moment.
-Painters used loose brush-strokes, fast
colour stains, colour dominated over
drawing and painted mainly in the open air,
not in the studio
IMPRESSIONISM
11. CLAUDE MONET
Woman with a parasol
Argenteuil
He was really interested on how light could change a landscape and he made different
series of the same theme
48. PAUL GAUGUIN
He was one of the representatives of Cloisonnism (painting with flat forms separated by
dark contours). He spent most of his life in Tahiti (French Polynesia)
The yellow Christ
Vision after the sermon
51. Where do we come from? What we are? Where are we going?
52. The potato eaters
VICENT VAN GOGH
He was a genius with a troubled life. His paintings reflected his tortured personality:
twisted brush- strokes, use of colour… He only sold one painting in his whole life
68. The card players
He was the precursor of Cubism. He used colour to give volume to objects and his
paintings became geometrical coloured shapes
PAUL CÉZANNE