IMPRESSIONISM and POST IMPRESSIONISM

(1836 - 1908 C.E.)

CONTENT: What do you see?

FORM: The details (what you see more exactly). How the artist delivers the content.

CONTEXT: Everything NOT observable.

FUNCTION: The intended purpose of the work.

Assignments:

READINGS: 

UNIT Sheet: 

SNAPSHOT Sheet:

APAH 250 Images:

Impressionism:

116. The Saint-Lazare Station, Claude Monet 

* Impression, Sunrise, Water Lilies series (Hay Stacks)

* Degas – ballerinas/bathers

* Renoir – Le Moulin de la Galette, Luncheon of the Boating Party

121. The Coiffure, Mary Cassatt 

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Post Impressionism:

120. The Starry Night, Vincent Van Gogh

123. Where Do We Come From? What are we? Where are we going?

         Paul Gauguin

125. Mont Saint-Victoire, Paul Cezane

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Vocabulary

Aquatint
Avant-garde
Caricature
Drypoint
Japonisme
Lithography
Modernism
Plein-air
Positivism
Skeleton
​Zoopraxiscope