4. Renoir - Morisot - Degas
Part I - The Artists and Foundational Principles
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• • Renoir(Noted for painting female figures and the beauty of daily life).
• Notes: Renoir believed a picture should be pleasant and pretty. I believe it should be beautiful, and he was, for beauty is transcendent; it demands a response. What does your invoice say about the work? To work is to be humble; to be humble is to paint still lifes. The unity of his work is because he was in love with his subject and the environment, which he explored lovingly.
• Morisot (One of the ‘grand dames’ of Impressionism who exhibited in the Salon and with the Impressionists, was friends of Corot and Manet).
• She captured the strength of the ephemeral through expressive brushwork with figures immersed within an environment capturing the fleeting glance of a scene. Her brushstrokes were fiery, accurate, and animated, for she drew with the brush sensation and expression beyond the representational.
• Degas (Though regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, he considered himself in the area of realism, working only indoor and studio, befriended Cassatt).
• Note: He looked to balance the structure and the experience of rapture to embrace the mystery with a simultaneously dynamic blend of both science and poetry. What is your balance?
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5. Cassatt - Sargent -Chase
• Cassatt (An ex-pat lived in France, befriended Degas and the Impressionists, figurative subjects, one of the 3 great women of Impressionism – along with Bracquemond and Morisot).
• She had a passion for rhythmic line as structure holding fields of choreographic patches of color. A master who m... -
6. Twacthman - Weir- Hassam
• Twachtman (studied in Munich and Paris, known for tonalist style scenes of landscapes, personal and experimental, co-founder of the Ten, worked at Cos Cob Art Colony).
o An impressionist for all seasons, work was tonalitic with a dreamy mood as if thought poems within a narrative of the landsca... -
7. van Gogh - Cezanne - Bonnard
• Van Gogh (A post-impressionist known for highly intensive emotion, color and movement, became known as the father of Expressionism).
o Notes: van Gogh wrote much about dreaming and awareness. He understood the night the stars, the movements of the wind on wheatfields, not from an intellectual u...
