5. Cassatt - Sargent -Chase
Part I - The Artists and Foundational Principles
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• 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 moved easily with a genesis of line into color.
• Sargent (An ex-pat, trained in Paris, portrait painter, having the ability to draw with a brush, later worked en Plein air, he was inspired by Monet.)
• Formal portraits and Plein air landscapes with figures. His painting process had layers of paint with a predominance of illustrative brushstrokes within a framework based upon academic drawing skills.
• Chase (studied in Munich, noted master instructor, en plein air methods figures in landscapes, later member of the Ten, he founded the Chase school later to be Parsons School of Design).
o He studied and painted effects of light and shade on nature’s hues and tints en plein air seeking to record what was before him.
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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... -
8. Matisse - Derain - Kandinsky
Fauvists: A group of early 20th century artists emphasized intense vivid unnatural colors, and wild painterly brushwork, less representational or realistic forms, influenced by Cezanne and Gauguin.
• Matisse (co-founder of Fauvism with Derain).
o Notes: He grew in his sense of design from line ...
