Valencia High School AP/IB Art HistoryMrs. Schultz

Content Area: Later Europe and Colonial Americas

Unit #7

Chapter 28: Impressionism, Post- Impressionism, Symbolism

1870- 1900

Key Ideas

  • Symbolist painters seek to portray mystical personal visions.
  • The Skyscraper is a new type of building due to technological advances
  • Art Nouveau unifies painting, sculpture, and architecture with curvilinear lines and organic forms and motifs.
  • Artists were inspired by the past but rejected the traditional subject matter.
  • Almost all artworks are purely secular with no religious symbolism or intent.
  • Early Modernism developed out of political unrest in all parts of the world.
  • Artists had really developed their own styles and were quick to accept new technologies
  • Many artists published their own manifestos about their artworks and philosophies of their movement.

List of Required AP Works (10 works):

Cue Cards

1. Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night (1889). Oil on canvas. Museum of Modern Art, New York, (pg. 815)

2. Claude Monet, The Saint- Lazare Station (1877). Oil on canvas. (pg. 803-804)

3. Auguste Rodin, The Burghers of Calais (1884- 1895). Bronze. (pg. 826)

4. Mary Cassatt, The Coiffure (1890- 1891). Drypoint and aquatint on laid paper.

5. Edvard Munch, The Scream (1893). Tempera and pastels on cardboard. (pg. 822, 823, 840)

6. Paul Gauguin, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (1897-1898). Oil on canvas. (pg. 816-817)

7. Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building. Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Louis Sullivan (architect). 1899- 1903 Iron, steel, glass, and terra cotta. (pg. 832)

8. Paul Cezanne, Mont Sainte- Victoire (1902-1904). Oil on canvas. (pg. 817- 818)

9. Gustav Klimt, The Kiss (1907- 1098). Oil on canvas. (pg. 823)

10. Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki name ura), also known as the Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. Katsushika Hokusai. 1830- 1833 Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper. (pg. 1005, 1016-17)

List of Required IB Works (5 works):

Cue Cards

1.Georges Seurat, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884- 86). Oil on canvas.The Art Institute of Chicago. (pg. 812)

2. Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise (1872).Oil on canvas.MuseeMarmottan Monet, Paris. (pg. 802)

3. Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night (1889). Oil on canvas. Museum of Modern Art, New York, (pg. 815)

4. Edvard Munch, Anxiety (1894). Oil on canvas. Munch-museet, Oslo.

5. Sir Stanley Spencer, The Resurrection, Cookham (1924- 27). Oil on canvas. Tate Collection.

Vocabulary

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Valencia High School AP/IB Art HistoryMrs. Schultz

  1. Impressionism
  2. Post-Impressionism
  3. Symbolism
  4. Arts and Crafts Movement
  5. Art Nouveau
  6. Pointillism
  7. Japanisme
  8. Fin-de-siecle
  9. hue
  10. saturation
  11. primary colors
  12. secondary colors
  13. complimentary colors
  14. value
  15. simultaneous contrasts of colors
  16. successivecontrasts
  17. optical mixture
  18. cool colors
  19. warm colors

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Valencia High School AP/IB Art HistoryMrs. Schultz

Things to think about

Define modernism and explain the shared characteristics of the modernist movements. Explain the formal and iconographic characteristics of Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, Arts and Crafts, and Art Nouveau. Describe the history of photography and its relationship with other fine arts media. Define the material and formal characteristics of late 19th-century architecture. Explain the philosophies and theories that governed the modernist art movements of the later 19th century. Identify the social and historical contexts that affected the production of art and architecture. Identify the founders of psychoanalysis and the artists and movements that were affected by the psyche and dreams. Describe the utopian ideals ascribed to artistic movements and the effect those ideals had on art, architecture, and the crafts movements.

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