"Show me an angel, and I'll paint one."
                                                       -Gustave Corbet

" I wouldn't exactly have chosen madness...but once one has something like that one can't catch it any more. However, in addition there will still perhaps be the consolation of being able to continue to work on some painting.
​             -van Gogh to his brother Theo, April 21, 1889

Student Resources
Study Cheat Sheet
Artist Review (updated 3/23/16)
Key Ideas
History
Artworks List
Vocabulary
PowerPoint
Artist Review (coming soon)
Flashcard Images

• Article: Romanticism to Realism (from The Visual Arts: A History 4th ed.)
• SmartHistory's How the Impressionists' Got Their Name and (a little slow but good clarifying info) a short look at Impressionism.
• From the National Gallery of Art, take a look into the life of van Gogh 
• The Greatest Artist: van Gogh
• Great website and full of images of Redon's impressive collection of paintings.
• Read more on Whistler's Nocturne in Black and Gold
• Don't know what a miniature Japanese woodblock print looks like? Visit this site that has many images of different themes and Ukiyo-e prints
• The Horse in Motion
• YouTube: Ukiyo-e master at work
• Crash Course: Industrial Revolution 
• Gaudi, Church of the Sagrada Familia
• Post-Impressionism 

*Please note there are A LOT of important artworks for this time period of the later 19th century. Obviously, we can't look at every artwork from every artist and many artists have several iconic/important works that move the art world into the next "-ism." I HIGHLY suggest not only watching and reading about artworks that are specific content area requirements for this class, but also for others as well. Spend the night looking at multiple van Gogh paintings, works by Monet, Cassatt, Gauguin, and Cezanne. 

Key Ideas

• Realism was based on the theory of being positive (positivism)
• Japanese art had a profound impact on late 19th century painting.
• Impressionist art is all about painting "en plein-air"
• 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 tradtional subject matter.
• Almost all artworks are purely secular with no religious symbolism or intent.

History

• Europe was in a move from aristocracies to democracies = Revolutions in Sicily, Venice, Germany, Austria, and Lombardy. 
• Franco-Prussian War of 1870
• Concept of positivism fueled by Comte (knowledge must come from proven ideas based off science)
• Darwin and Marx = Human evolution and social equality
• Invention of telephones, motion pictures, bicycles, and cars!
• The avant-garde
• New excavation begins in Greece, Turkey, and Europe

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The late 19th century, when there was new open trade with Japan between the US and Europe, artists were strongly influenced by this new technique of woodblock printing- ukiyo e, or "floating world" prints.  These prints also captured the fleeting moment and focused on Japanese culture including dance, theater, daily moments in life. 

Mary Cassatt said in a letter "You must not miss it... You couldn't dream of anything more beautiful. I dream of it and don't think of anything else." 

Hokusai's The Great Wave, 1829-1832

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Artworks

Realism
The Stone Breakers
Nader Raising Photography...
Olympia
The Valley of Mexico from the    
​         Hillside of Santa Isabel
The Horse in Motion
Impressionism
The Sainte-Lazare
The Coiffure
The Starry Night
Where Do We Come From?
Mont Saint-Victoire
Symbolism
The Scream
Art Nouveau
The Kiss
Architecture
Carson Pirie Scott
Sculpture
The Burghers of Calais

Vocabulary

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

Flashcard Images