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Modern Art History
Neo-Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Art Nouveau, Sculpture
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Undergraduate 1
02/05/2013

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Neo-Impressionism (Pointillism)

A Sunday Afternoon on the Isle of La Grande Jatte

Seurat 1885

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Neo-Impressionism (Pointillism)

Portrait of M. Felix Feneon in 1890

Signac

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Post-Impressionism

Grandes Baigneuses (The Large Bathers)

Paul Cezanne 1898-1905

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Post-Impressionism

Boy in a Red Vest

Cezanne 1890-95

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Post-Impressionism

Still-Life with Basket of Apples & Petits Pains

Cezanne 1890-94

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Post-Impressionism

Mt. St-Victoire

Cezanne 1904

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Post-Impressionism

Gulf of Marseilles from L'Estaque

Cezanne 1885

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Post-Impressionism

Vision After the Sermon: Jacob Wrestling with the Angel

Gaugin 1888

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Post-Impressionism

D'ou venon nous? Qui sommes nous? Ou allons nou?

(Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we going?)

Gaugin 1897

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Post-Impressionism

Self-portrait Dedicated to Gaugin

Van Gogh Sept. 1888

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Post-Impressionism

Starry Night

Van Gogh 1889

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Post-Impressionism

The Night Café

Van Gogh 1888

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Post-Impressionism

The Nabis

Woman in Blue with Child

 Vuillard 1899

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Post-Impressionism

The Nabis

Moulin Rouge, La Golue

Toulouse-Lautrec 1891

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Art Noveau (Jugenstil)

Death and Life

Klimt 1908-11


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Art Nouveau (Jugendstil)

The Scream (The Cry)

Munch 1893

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Art Nouveau (Jugendstil)

The Dance of Life

Munch 1899-1900

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Art Nouveau (Jugendstil)

Self-Portrait Surrounded by Masks

Ensor 1899

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Art Nouveau (Jugendstil)

The Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889

Ensor 1888-89

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Sculpture Leading to the 20th Century

The Age of Bronze

Rodin 1876

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Sculpture Leading to the 20th Century

The Gates of Hell

Rodin 1880-1917

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Sculpture Leading to the 20th Century

The Burghers of Callais

Rodin 1886

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Sculpture Leading to the 20th Century

The River

Maillol 1938-43

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Sculpture Leading to the 20th Century

The Little Dancer Aged 14

Degas 1880

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Pointillism
Definition
A technique of neo-Impressionist painting using tiny dots, which become blended in the viewer's eye.
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Color Harmony
Definition
  • The blending of hues, shades and tints to produce a pleasing effect.

 

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Complementary Pairs
Definition
Two colors across from each other on the color wheel that cancel each other out when mixed.
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Triad
Definition
 A color scheme based on three colors on the color wheel that are located at equal distances from each other.
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Split Complementaries
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Color schemes combine the two colors on either side of a color's complement.

Ex.: Violet -- yellow green or yellow orange

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Chevreul's Color Theory
Definition
Optical illusions are sometimes created when bold colors are placed in close proximity to one another, creating pronounced differences between each color. Simultaneous contrast may create an optical illusion that appears to lighten or darken the hue of a given color depending on whether it is placed beside a second color that is darker or lighter in hue.

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Newton's Color Theory
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Objects appear to be certain colors because they absorb and reflect different amounts and wavelengths of light.
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Goethe's Color Theory
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The sensations of color reaching our brain are also shaped by our perception — by the mechanics of human vision and by the way our brains process information. Therefore, according to Goethe, what we see of an object depends upon the object, the lighting and our perception.
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Color Modulation
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A method of calculating color values during texture application, where the texture and the fragment colors are combined.
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Arbitrary Color
Definition

Color that has no realistic or natural relation to the object that is depicted, as in a blue horse, or a purple cow, but which may have emotional or expressive significance.


Ex.: Vision After the Sermon: Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, Gaugin


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Symbolist
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A member of an artistic movement that expressed ideas indirectly via symbols.
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Cloissonism
Definition
 A style of post-Impressionist painting with bold and flat forms separated by dark contours. 
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Syncretism
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The combining of different (often seemingly contradictory) beliefs, often while melding practices of various schools of thought.


Ex.: D'ou venons nous? Qui sommes nous? Ou allon nous?, Gaugin

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Synaesthesia
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 The simultaneous perception of two or more stimuli as one. -- When one type of sensation evokes another sense.
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Simultaneous Contrast
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The phenomenon in which the perceived color of an area of a scene tends to take on a hue opposite to that of the surrounding area.

 Ex.: A grey square on a red background will take on a greenish tint.

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