HOA 106 1st Edition Lecture 14 Outline of Last Lecture II Historicism continued III Realism a Ideas i Industrialism ii Socialism iii Urbanism iv Social Activism v Literature and Documentary Photography IV Painting a France b America Outline of Current Lecture V Architecture Realism VI Late 19th Century Styles New Unit a Academic Realist Painting b Impressionism i Monet Renoir c Post Impressionism Current Lecture Lecture 3 17 15 Architecture o New medium of cast iron and steel from industrialization Joseph Paxton the Crystal Palace London 1851 First international industrial exposition held in London 1851 Cast iron framework supported a curtain of glass walls resembling a giant greenhouse Built in only 9 months Burned down in 1936 These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Gustave Eiffel Eiffel Tower 1889 Built for the Paris World Exhibition of 1889 John Augustus Roebling Brooklyn Bridge 1880 1600 foot span suspension bridge Steel cables hold roadway Suspension bridges have to be thoroughly maintained Marriage of modern steel and historical form Louis Henry Sullivan Guaranty Building Buffalo New York The skyscraper is a multi story building and reflects structural form Made possible by invention of the elevator by EG Otis Sullivan s belief form should follow function the appearance of a building should reflect its purpose Late 19th Century Styles Academic Realist Painting o o Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema Women of Amphissa 1887 English painter whose dazzling realist style appealed to the educated upper classes Women of Amphissa is an ancient Greek story John Singer Sargent Madame X 1884 Stylish American society portrait Strap was originally painted hanging off shoulder that was too sexual Sargent repainted it with strap replaced Impressionism o About sensation not perception Optical realism Scientific parallels o Impressionist painters were not allowed in official painting salons Hermann von Helmholtz physicist Discovered that light divided into colors via prism Light is all seven colors and can be divided Claude Monet Impression Sunrise 1872 o First impressionist painting Spontaneous blurred rapid brushstroke Unfinished appearance people didn t like this Urban renewal in Paris o Baron Hausmann renovated the medieval city widening streets and replacing ancient buildings with modern stores Camille Pissaro the Boulevard Montmartre on a Saturday Morning Pierre Auguste Renoir Le Moulin de la Galette Subject is leisure life of urban population o Impressionists didn t want any thinking just wanted to make an impression Effects of different types of light on stationary object Monet Rouen Cathedral Series A gothic cathedral depicted as a painting of light Monet Water Lillies Series o Huge painting Post Impressionism o Elements of Impressionism examined by individual artists o The Nabis Believed that a painting is first a surface of colors arranged in a certain order Paul Serusier The Talisman Painted on a cigar box Doesn t represent anything just colors arranged in a certain order Paul Gauguin the Day of the God He traveled in search of a pure source of artistic inspiration unpolluted by civilization He settled in the French colony of Tahiti where he died Compared with Maori visual tradition Edouard Vuillard the Suitor o Woman putting table cloth on table Patterns combined in different ways Colonialism Vincent Van Gogh Self Portrait blue green yellow white Starry Night 1889