The document discusses key movements in art, focusing on Impressionism, Neo-Impressionism, and Post-Impressionism, highlighting the shift from realistic representation to subjective interpretation influenced by photography. It covers notable artists and their significant works, illustrating how they captured moments, light, and emotion through innovative techniques. The evolution of art during this period set the foundation for 20th-century avant-garde styles.

1. IMPRESSIONISM
NEO-IMPRESSIONISM AND
POST-IMPRESSIONISM

2. The invention of photography strongly
hit painting and reflecting reality was
not a priority any more.
Many artists started experiencing with
colours, atmosphere, sensations and
representing their subjective point of
view in their works. This marked the
beginning of the avant-garde styles of
the 20th
century.
Boulevard du Temple (1838),
one of the firts daguerrotypes

3. ÉDOUARD MANET
- He admired Velázquez and Goya.
- Transition painter between realism and impressionism
- Some of his works are considered watershed paintings, which mark the beginning of modern
art.
- Impressionist painters admired him
Music in the Tuileries

4. The Luncheon on the Grass

5. Olympia

6. The fifer
The balcony

7. The races at Longchamp

8. The Masked Ball at the Opera

9. A Bar at the Folies- Bergère

10. Impression, sunrise
CLAUDE MONET
-The name comes from “impression”. A
critic gave name to the new style from
Claude Monet’ s painting Impression,
Sunrise
- Impressionist artists tried to capture the
moment in their paintings, reflect reality
not as it was, but as they watched it at a
specific moment.
-Painters used loose brush-strokes, fast
colour stains, colour dominated over
drawing and painted mainly in the open air,
not in the studio
IMPRESSIONISM

11. CLAUDE MONET
Woman with a parasol
Argenteuil
He was really interested on how light could change a landscape and he made different
series of the same theme

12. Poppies blooming

13. The Saint-Lazare Station

14. Rouen Cathedral

15. The Houses of Parliament of London

16. The Grand Canal, Venice

17. Poplars

18. Water lillies

20. The Dance Class
He focused on human figure
and movement. He painted
scenes of dancers and horse
races
EDGAR DEGAS

21. Ballet rehearsal

22. Dancer with a bouquet of flowers
Green Dancer

23. Woman in the bath
The tub

24. The Absinthe Drinker

25. Horse races

26. He represented scenes in the open air and was also interested on feminine beauty and sensuality.
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR
The Grenouillère

27. Dance at the Moulin de la Galette

28. Luncheon on the boating party

29. The first outing
The Swing

30. Bathers

31. Flood at Pont Marly
ALFRED SISLEY
Among the vines

32. Canal Saint Martin

33. The frost
CAMILLE PISSARRO
Boulevard Montmartre at night

34. JOAQUÍN SOROLLA
Children on the seashore

35. Sad inheritance

36. Walk on the beach

37. Afternoon sun

38. SCULPTURE
AUGUSTE RODIN
He used multiple grounds to get light effects.
The thinker The burghers of Calais

39. Balzac The three shades

40. The Gates of Hell
Reflection on human condtion.
The thinker, the Three Shades and
The Kiss were an important part of this
work

41. The Kiss

42. NEO-IMPRESSIONISM
Some painters experienced with compositions made with dots of pure colour
GEORGES SEURAT
A Sunday afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

43. Bathers at Asnières
Circus sideshow
The Eiffel Tower

44. The Circus
The Seine and la Grande Jatte - Springtime

45. PAUL SIGNAC
The Papal Palace, AvignonGrand Canal, Venice

46. Portrait of Félix Féneon

47. POST-IMPRESSIONISM
Post-Impressionist artists recovered the importance of drawing and they were not only
worried about light and colour, but about expression as well.
GAUGUIN VAN GOGH
TOULOUSE-
LAUTREC
CÉZANNE

48. PAUL GAUGUIN
He was one of the representatives of Cloisonnism (painting with flat forms separated by
dark contours). He spent most of his life in Tahiti (French Polynesia)
The yellow Christ
Vision after the sermon

49. Arearea

50. Tahitian women on the beach

51. Where do we come from? What we are? Where are we going?

52. The potato eaters
VICENT VAN GOGH
He was a genius with a troubled life. His paintings reflected his tortured personality:
twisted brush- strokes, use of colour… He only sold one painting in his whole life

53. The sower

54. Doctor Gachet’s portrait

55. Self- portraits

56. The starry night

57. Starry night over the Rhône

58. The night café

59. The red vineyard

60. Bedroom in Arlés

61. The Church at Auvers-sur- Oise
Cypresses

62. Wheatfield with crows

63. La Toilette
He was a painter and
lithographer. His favourite themes
were cabaret dancers and
prostitutes.
HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC

64. Posters

65. Dance at the Moulin Rouge

66. At the Moulin Rouge
The medical inspection at the Rue
des Moulins

67. Salon at the Rue des Moulins

68. The card players
He was the precursor of Cubism. He used colour to give volume to objects and his
paintings became geometrical coloured shapes
PAUL CÉZANNE

69. Boy in a red waistcoat

70. Still-life paintings

71. The bathers

72. Sainte-Victoire Mountain