Impressionism

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Dispatch Copy in sketchbook.
Cubism
Impressionism
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Impressionism

• A style of painting begun in France about 1875.
• It stresses a candid glimpse of the subject
• An emphasis on the momentary effects of light on
  color.

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Mary Cassatt
Self Portrait 1878 gouche on paper
23x17in Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
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Vincent Van Gogh
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Claude Monet
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Pablo Picasso
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A post-impressionist school of painting from
19th century France, characterized by the
application of small dots and brush strokes.
Pointillism
G E O R G E S S E U R A T
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BATHING AT ASNIERS GEORGES SEURAT
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Characteristics of Impressionism

• Study of light on color.
• Very little to no neutrals, tints, shades, and
  tones.
• Small brush strokes or pastel marks you can see.
• No blending or smudging with fingers instead
  layering of colors and your eye blends it when
  you stand back.
• Meticulous or detailed applications of paint or
  pastels.

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3 Impressionism Portrait(copy master artwork)

• Choose an Impressionism portrait from box.
• Use a ruler and draw a 1 border all the way
  around using a pencil.
• Copy impressionism portrait with pencil (LIGHTLY)
  on manila paper.
• Color it in using OIL PASTELS.

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• Art Criticism
• 1. Description
• Please describe in detail what you see.
• Make a list of the things you see in the work.
• DO NOT state your opinion, interpret, or judge
  the work.

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• Art Criticism
• 2. Analysis
• How is the work organized?
• How are art elements used?
• LINE, SHAPE, FORM, COLOR, VALUE, TEXTURE, SPACE
• How are principles of design used?
• RHYTHM, MOVEMENT, BALANCE, PROPORTION, VARIETY,
  EMPHASIS, UNITY

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• Now you write about
• FORM
• VALUE
• TEXTURE
• COLOR
• SPACE

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Georges Seurat The Circus 1891 Oil on
Canvas 185.5x152.5 cm
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CUBISM EXERCISE 1 DRAW BIG!
THIS IS TIMED!

• Choose 3 color markers.
• Draw a line horizontally to represent the table
  top.
• Observe the object in front of you and do a blind
  contour drawing of one side or view of it. Use
  the lightest color you have.
• Now look at object and draw another view of it on
  top of the drawing you just did.
• From your imagination without looking at object,
  draw another and different side on top of the
  other drawings.
• Connect some lines to make interesting shapes.
• Fill in some areas with color. Leave some areas
  with just the outlines.

Still life
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Project 6 CUBISM Portrait
USE YOUR IMAGINATION!
Criteria

• On whole manila paper (18x24) draw a 2 border
  all the way around edge.
• Choose someone to draw could be yourself, friend,
  famous person.
• Overlap 3 different points of views (front,
  side/profile, top looking down, bottom looking
  up) on same paper.
• Incorporate collage (cut and paste) construction
  paper, newspaper, magazines, or sketches in your
  artwork.

5. Give it a title and write your name, period,
and date on back
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Dispatch Copy in sketchbook. Write the date
Cubism
Impressionism

• A style of painting begun in France about 1875.
• It stresses a candid glimpse of the subject
• An emphasis on the momentary effects of light on
  color.

Pointillism post-impressionist school of
painting from 19th century France, characterized
by the application of small dots and brush
strokes.

• Study of light on color.
• Very little to no neutrals, tints, shades, and
  tones.
• Small brush strokes or pastel marks you can see.
• No blending or smudging with fingers instead
  layering of colors and your eye blends it when
  you stand back.
• Meticulous or detailed applications of paint or
  pastels.

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Cubism

• Followed Impressionism and Post Impressionism
• Began in 1907 by Pablo Picasso and George Braque

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• They used Paul Cezannes ideas and his way of
  building up the surface with small squarish
  brushstrokes.

Paul Cezanne Mont Saint-Victoire 1902-04
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Paul Cezanne
Self Portrait 1879-82 (140 Kb) Oil on canvas,
25 5/8 x 20 5/8" Tate Gallery, London
In his still life paintings and landscapes or
work done outdoor in early 1900s, he tried to
capture the underlying geometry of the natural
world (World Art The Essential Illustrated
History)
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Pablo Picasso
Self Portrait
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Pablo Picasso

• Said to have been the most versatile and
  influential artist of the 20th century.
• 1907 painted Les Demoiselles d Avignon, the most
  influential painting of the 20th century.
• He was inspired by African masks and sculpture.

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African Masks
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• Named after Avignon Street, a red light district
  in Barcelona.

DETAIL
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Cubism
A style of art in which the subject is broken
apart and reassembled in an abstract form,
emphasizing simple geometric shapes and forms.
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2 kinds of Cubism
Analytical Synthetic
Pulling image or subject apart into planes or
pieces.
Building up or pushing together of objects.
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A N A L Y T I C A L
UBISM
What are the Cubist doing with color here?
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Synthetic Cubism
Wall paper
Constructed from objects and shapes cut out of
paper or other materials to represent parts of a
subject in order to play visual games with
illusion and reality. No longer
from observation, now use Imagination.
Sheet music
Paper resembling wood grain
Drawing/ sketch
newspaper
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Did you know Picasso is credited with inventing
COLLAGE?
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Look closely,What parts of the following
painting by Picasso do you think is collage?
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First Cubist Collage May 1912 by Pablo Picasso
Piece of rope
Fragment of oil cloth painted in order to give
illusion of a chair seat
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The Three Musicians
What parts do you think are collage in this
painting by Pablo Picasso?
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Characteristics of Cubism

• Subjects based on idea or from imagination not
  perception of people, objects, or landscapes.
• Subjects are not painted to look like
  photographic replicas or realistic.
• Subjects are treated in a simplified manner
  stylized or ABSTRACTED.
• Uses straight geometric lines, angles, shapes,
  forms to break up the picture plane.
• You can see more than one side, plane, or point
  of view of a subject at the same time.
• May include text or collage glued items onto the
  canvas.

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Frida Kahlo
What do you know about her?
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Dispatch

• 1. Frida Kahlo is known for her self portraits.
  Make a list of TEN things you see.
• 2. Next to that list describe what you think
  those things mean or symbolize.

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Homework
Directions Put your self in the place of Frida
Kahlo in this painting. -Tell us your story.
Describe what you see, feel, smell, taste, touch,
think.
Due FRIDAY 1/9/09