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Baroque (1600-1750)Rococo (1715-1775)

Neoclassicism (1750-1824)Romanticism (19th)

Realism (Mid to end of 19th)Impressionism (End of 19th, start of 20th)

Post-Impressionism (End of 19th, start of 20th)

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Claude Monet (1840-1926), Self-portrait, 1886,Oil on canvas, Private collection, Paris

Source: 7

• Word appears in 1874

• How over what is seen

• Use of new pigments

• Complementary colors

• Broken color technique

• Form is color

• Capturing the fleeting moment

• Urban and industrial themes

Impressionism

• Space acquires life

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La Grenouillère, 1869, Oil on canvas, 74,6 x 99,7 cm Metropolitain Museum of Art, New York

Source: 7

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Impression, Sunrise, 1872, Oil on canvas,Musée Marmottan, Paris

Source: 7

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La gare Saint-Lazare, 1877, Oil on canvas,75 cm x 104 cm, Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Source: 7

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Wheatstack (Snow Effect, Overcast day), 1890-91 (both), 66 x 93 cm (both),The Art Institute of Chicago (both); Wheatstack (Thaw, Sunset)

Source: 8

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The Portal and the Tower of the Saint-Romain at Brilliant Sun, Harmony in Blue and Gold, 1893, Oil on canvas (both), 107 × 73 cm (both), Musée d’Orsay, Paris; Rouen

Cathedral, The Façade in Sunlight Location, 1894, Clark Art Institute , Williamstown

Source: 7

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Houses of Parliament, London, c. 1904, 81 x 92 cm (?),Palace of Fine-Arts, Lille, France; Fog Effect, 1904; 82,6 x 92,7 cm; Museum of

Fine Arts, St. Petersburg

Source: 8

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Key notions

-Broken color

-Complementary color

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Required reading-Gombrich, The Story of Art, p. 397-408

Suggested readings-Cleaver, Art, an Introduction, p. 517-523-Fiero, The Humanistic Tradition, vol. 5, p. 114-119-Kleiner, Gardner’s Art through the Ages, p. 869-877

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Bibliography and Sources

1. Adams, Exploring the Humanities2. Cleaver, Art, an Introduction3. Davies, Janson’s Basic History of Western Art4. Fiero, The Humanistic Tradition, vol. 55. Gombrich, The Story of Art6. Kleiner, Gardner’s Art through the Ages7. www.wga.hu8. www.wikipedia.com