ARTH 112 1st Edition Lecture 31 Art is an important position in the bourguoisee Art is now becoming experimental Human need to make art is being emphasized Artist is now sometimes inside the fourth wall project the viewer into the scene Perspective also inites the viewer in GustaveCaillebotte Paris Street Rainy Day 1877 Steep plain is peculiar and is not accurate in perspectival Composition projects you into the painting o At eye level with the man on your right o People become less easy to distinguish themselves as the eye moves further into the horizon No typical subject matter it is quotithian regular daily activity o Flaneur gentleman distinguished by his clothes Seems condescending o About daily life seeing and how the artist can represent daily life Georges Seurat A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte 1884 86 Indifferent representation of a moment Shadows are nonsensical they go in irrational ways o Does not appear so on the onset Looks natural but is not o Makes it impossible to determine the time of day Experimental colors Pointillism Also uses separation of complimentary colors to frame the picture Vincent Van Gogh 1853 90 Very intelligent man who did not succeed as a minister Plagued by psychotic episodes and eventually killed himself Painting was a means of healing for him but it was unsuccessful Vincent Van Gogh Starry Night Painted during a psychotic episode in an asylum Christian image of an apocalypse The sun is shining in the night The tree in the foreground waving back and forth becomes a looming presence The town looks threatened by a cosmic tower Edward Munch The Scream 1910 Norwegian artist contemporary of Van Gogh I hear the scream in nature the scream coming from the earth A terrified version of existentialism Color of the sky is as in the last judgment Skewed perspective warps the land Blood raining down into the land Water is twisting The face is not a person it is a skull a demonic figure blown by almost a nuclear explosion Psychological August Rodin The Burghers of Calais 1884 89 Edward Matisse The Woman with the Hat 1905 Combined romanticism and modernism and impressionism and post impressionism Just in a primitive way Intense blurs of color Fauvism wild beasts of the subconscious mind The ID Henri Matiss Le Bohnheur de Vivre The Joy of Life A Pastoral scene rendered very simply 2 dimensional
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