Art History 110 1st Edition Lecture 10Outline of Last Lecture I. Beginning of the Impressionist Movement in EuropeOutline of Current Lecture: Impressionism/Vincent Van GoghI. Discussing works by Van GoghA. – Starry Night II. What is Post-Impressionism? Current Lecture1. Starry NightII. Artist: Vincent Van Gogh.III. Made in 1889.IV. One of the greatest examples of the Post-Impressionism movement.V. Painted from careful observation and the artist’s imagination.VI. Painting medium is oil on canvas. Dimensions of the canvas are 28 ¾ X 36 ¼ inches.VII. The painting is a riot of brushwork with many rail-like strokes of intense color used in thepainting.VIII. Van Gogh’s brushwork is immediate, expressive, and intense. IX. During the time when Van Gogh made this painting he was in an insane asylum and was going mad and wanting to hurt himself because he was going through many psychotic episodes and psychological crisis. After Starry Night was finished Van Gogh Committed suicide the next year in 1890. 2. Post-Impressionism: a term coined by English critic Roger Fry, it is meant to describe a diversegroup of painters whose work he had collected for an exhibition. He acknowledged that these artists did not share a unified style or approach to art, but they all used Impressionism as a springboard for their individual expressions of modernity in art. A very important example of 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.one of those artists is Vincent Van Gogh. Other artists unclude: Georges Seurat, Paul Gaugin, and Michel-Eugene
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