The document discusses the art movements of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, highlighting key characteristics, influential artists, and notable works. Impressionism, emerging in France in the late 19th century, focused on natural light and simplified details, while Post-Impressionism combined vibrant color with traditional composition. Notable figures include Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Cézanne, with contributions to music and literature also mentioned.

1. ART MOVEMENTS
• Impressionism
• Post-Impressionism

2. IMPRESSIONISM(1865-1885)

3. • INTRODUCTION
Impressionism movement was an important movement that
changed the concept of (Art & Music)
Since it turned away from the fine finish & taking care of
details, to the simplification of details.
(influences) It starts when several painters began using more
natural methods of lighting their works, as (Manet, Monet,
Pissarro)

4. MOVEMENT DEVELOPMENT
When and where the movement started?
• In France in the late 19th century.
• Also It is the 1st artistic revolution since the Renaissance movement.
What is the Influences that helps in the movement
appearing?
• when a group of artists created a new art style movement. They started
to share a set of their own resources and techniques to encourage
themselves in their own French exhibition that was in France.

5. MOVEMENT DEVELOPMENT
What did the artists call themselves?
• They called themselves the anonymous society of painters,
sculptures, engravers, etc.,
• But after that they were called “the Impressionists”

6. INTERESTS AND ART
STYLE
What is the characteristics, concepts and
style?
• The movement style characterized be
the simplification in details
• Using natural colors
• Landscapes & the effect of light on the
colors,
• EX: Rouen Cathedral, Façade, Sunset
(Monet)

7. INTERESTS AND ART
STYLE
 They loved describing:
• Vapor rising in the warm glow of the setting
of the sun
• The freezing of the water in winter
• Painting the mists, smoke from the trains
which made iron and building bricks seems
weightless
• Painting London fogs which roundabout
architecture
• EX: Lower Norwood under snow (Pissarro)

8. INTERESTS AND ART
STYLE
They Take care of the Impression
of the image.
EX: Impression, Sunrise (Monet)

9. ARTISTS OF THE
MOVEMENT
1-Edouard Manet
(1832-1883)
Loved describing street scenes
Simplification in details

10. NOTABLE WORK
• The bar at the Folies-Bergere
• The Café Concert

11. ARTISTS OF THE
MOVEMENT
2-Claude Monet
 (1840-1926)
• Leader of the Impressionism movement
• Loved work outdoors
• His style in art is using optical mixing
technique (mixing colors using broad
brushstrokes which give vibrant surface
texture)

12. NOTABLE WORK
Impression sunrise Garden at Sainte-Adresse

13. ARTISTS OF THE
MOVEMENT
3-Camille Pissarro
 (1830-1903)
 French artist
 Loved describing street scenes

14. NOTABLE WORKS
The Stagecoach at Louveciennes Garden at Pontoise

15. ARTISTS OF THE
MOVEMENT
4-Mary Cassatt
 (1855-1927)
 Came to Paris, France to study
Impressionism
 Loved to paint mothers & children

16. NOTABLE WORK
The boating
party

17. IMPRESSIONISM MUSIC

18. IMPRESSIONISM MUSIC
Notable composers
• Claude Debussy
• Ernest Fanelli

19. NOTABLE COMPOSERS
1.Claude Debussy
 (1862-1918)
 French composer
 One of the leading figures of the
impressionist music(The prominent French
literary style of his period was known as Symbolism,
and this movement directly inspired Debussy both as
a composer and as an active cultural participant.)

20. NOTABLE WORK
• Clair de Lune (1880)
• La mer (1903)

21. NOTABLE COMPOSERS
2.Ernest Fanelli
(1860-1917)
French composer
Said to be “the father of the
Impressionism music”

22. NOTABLE WORK
• Souvenirs de jeunesse (1872)
• Souvenirs poètiques (1878)
• A Night in Sophor (1891)

23. POST-IMPRESSIONISM(1885-1910)

24.  INTRODUCTION:
 Post impressionism was a movement in Art, Music, Architecture &
Literature.
 impressionism was changing, Artists as (Renoir, Degas & were exploring
new styles, they looked for something more substantial
 They wished to combine the color & light of the Impressionism
movement with the design & composition of the traditional paintings
 Those group of artists were (George Seurat, Vincent van Gogh, Paul
Gaugain, Paul Cezanne)

25. MOVEMENT DEVELOPMENT
 When and where the movement started?
•In France in the beginning if the 20th century.
 What is the Influences that help in the movement
beginning?
• When Artists as (Renoir, Degas & were exploring new styles, they wished to
combine the color & light of the impressionism movement with the design &
composition of the traditional paintings.as(George Seurat, Vincent van Gogh,
Paul Gaugain, Paul Cezanne)

26. CONCEPTS AND STYLES
 During the impressionism movement, multiple art styles appeared:
I. Seurat pointillism
II. Van Gogh Japonism
III. Gaugin and Synthesim
IV. Cezanne and the Structure of Pictorial Form

27. SEURAT POINTILLISM
• Seurat is the earliest announcer of the new trend that
broke with Impressionism
• He developed the style of painting known as (pointillism)
which use points, dots as the basis for the construction of
the painting
• This was firstly known as (Neo-Impressionism). Were the
marks that made up the painting were each executed in a
singular color.
• Those colors of the tiny dots were to mimic vibrating
appearance of the natural color.
• EX: The Port of Saint Tropez (1906)

28. VAN GOGH JAPONISM
• Van Gogh relied in his style on the saturated colors and
broad brushstrokes to evoke the inner turmoil of the
artist .
• He loved to stylize the representations of Japanese
woodblock prints(ukiyo-e)
• (Japosim) it is a French term that was first used by Jules
Claretie
• And this style refers to both influence & style of
Japanese art on the western art
• EX: The Great Wave of The Coast Kanagawa (1906)

29. GAUGIN AND SYNTHESIM
• In the fall of 1888
• Van Gogh & Gaugin shared an symbolic content and images
that were abstracted from their natural appearances, Gauguin
developed these ideas further in his theory of "Syntheism”
• It is the synthesis between the outward appearance & the
subject of the matter.
• It uses pure color, shading, modeling & single point
perspective
• It produce a primitive emotional impression

30. GAUGIN SYNTHESIM
EX: Mountains in Tahiti(1897)
 express the vision with the
vibrant color

31. CEZANNE AND THE STRUCTURE OF PICTORIAL FORM
• Focused in his painting on an exploration of the
formal structure of portraits & landscapes rather
than describe the overall impression of the
• Suggested that the landscape was built up from
the simplest geometric components
 EX: Sainte Victory
 It Broke down the structure of the geometric
shape

32. ARTISTS OF THE
MOVEMENT
• Georges Seurat
• Vincent Van Gogh
• Paul Gauguin
• Paul Cezanne

33. ARTISTS OF THE
MOVEMENT
1.George Seurat
 (1859-1891)
 Loved painting sunny pictures
 Used pointillism (Neo-Impressionism) as his style

34. NOTABLE WORK
La Grande Jatte (1884) The Eiffel Tower (1889)

35. ARTISTS OF THE
MOVEMENT
2..Vincent Van Gogh
 (1853-1890)
 Worked as an art dealer & began painting in 27
 He produced over 800 paintings in 10 years
 committed suicide at 37

36. NOTABLE WORK
Starry, Starry, Night (1889)

37. ARTISTS OF THE
MOVEMENT
3. Paul Gauguin
 (1848-1903)
 He was known for painting & sculpture
 Use Synthesim as an art style

38. NOTABLE WORK
Mountains in Tahiti(1897)

39. ARCHITECTURE

40. ARCHITECTURE
• Became innovative as structural steel freed up the
limitations that allowed architects to go as high as
they pleased.
• 1st skyscraper in Chicago in 1880’s
• Lines were simple

41. FAMOUS CONSTRUCTIONS AT THIS PERIOD
The Brookline bridge (1883) Eiffel Tower (1887)

42. MUSIC

43. MUSIC STYLE
o Rise of national music
o Rise of folk songs
o Composers wrote music to amaze audience
o National history provided the inspiration for operas

44. NOTABLE MUSICIANS
• Franz Liszt: (1811-1886)
• Peter Tchaikovsky: (1840-1893)

45. NOTABLE MUSICIANS
1.Franz Liszt
 (1811-1886)
 Hungarian composer
 Over than 1200 compositions
 1st composer to perform solo piano concerts
Notable compositions
o Faust Symphony (1854)
o Hungarian Rhapsody

46. NOTABLE MUSICIANS
2. Peter Tchaikovsky
 (1840-1893)
 Russian composer who was educated in law school, but left
to study music
 Wrote symphonies, operas, ballets & popular concert music
NOTABLE COMPOSITIONS
o Swan Lake
o Sleeping beauty

47. LITERATURE

48. LITERATURE CONCEPTS
• A great period for fiction
• Deal with human development & their problems.
• Exposed people as (greedy, selfish, aggressive, etc.)

49. NOTABLE WRITERS
o George Bernard Shaw
o H.G Wells

50. NOTABLE WRITERS
1.George Bernard Shaw:
 (1856-1950)
 Self-educated in economics & politics
 Considered the greatest dramatist in the English
language since Shakespeare
 Won Nobel prize for literature in 1925
NOTABLE WORK (Plays included)
o Man & superman
o Arms and the Man
o Caesar & Cleopatra

51. NOTABLE WRITERS
2.H.G Wells
 (1866-1946)
• Herbert studied Zoology
• Pioneered modern science fiction
• Believed in the perfectibility of mankind
NOTABLE WORK
o The Time Machine
o The Visible Man
o The War of the World

52. ANY QUESTIONS?