During the La Belle Époque period from 1870-1914, sculpture focused on reflecting light and individual senses or visions of reality, with Rodin being the most famous sculptor. New forms of popular culture also emerged like cinema, phonographs, and the music industry. In architecture, new materials like iron, glass, steel, and concrete enabled skyscrapers and the modernist style, with Gaudi being a prominent architect. Impressionist painters sought to depict light effects while post-impressionists expressed personal feelings and views of society.

1. La Belle Époque Culture between 1870 and 1914.

2. Index The Sculpture, by David Carrasco. The new types of popular culture, by Juan Carlos Ramos. The Architecture, by Pablo Quevedo. The Painting, by Antonio Torres.

3. The Sculpture In the impressionist sculpture the artists tried to reflect the light in their arts. In the post-impressionist sculpture the artist tried to reflect their senses or their vision of the real world. The best sculptor was Rodin. Rodin did the model of the Impressionist sculpture.

4. The sculpture had not fished surfaces that, when the light shone there sculpture saw finished. Examples of sculptures of this time were: El pensador   El beso

5. New types of popular culture In this time appeared new forms of artistic expression: Born the cinema in 1895. Edison invented the phonograph in 1878. Later appeared the gramophone. Born the music industry, in 1900 had record stores in all major cities.  Fonograph  Gramophone

6. The Architecture The development of the Industrial Revolution made possible that we could use new materials in the construction of buildings, like the iron, the glass, the steel and the reinforced concreted. The symbol of the new architecture was the “Eiffel Tower”, in Paris.

7. Was in this time when born the skyscraper, with the elevators. At the end of the XIX th century appeared a new architectonic style, the Modernism. The architects of the Modernism paid special attention to the aesthetic of their buildings.

8. The most famous architect was Antonio Gaudí. These are some of his works:

9. The Painting The Impressionism painters, around 1870, tried to reflect the light effects in the pictures. In the following decade, the post-impressionism painters tried to show their own feelings and their own point of view about the society.

10. These are some Impressionism and Post-Impressism painters and their works: Monet  Renoir  Pizarro   Van Gogh  Cézanne  Gaugin

11. Questions 1.- Who isthe most famous sculptor? 2.- What was invented by Edison? 3.- What was the symbol of the new architecture? 4.- What tried to reflect the Impressionism painters in their pictures? 5.- What is the name of this work?

12. Answers 1.- Rodin 2.- The Fonograph 3.- The Eiffel Tower 4.- The light effects of the objects. 5.- La Belle Èpoque

13. Credits Pablo Quevedo David Ruiz Carrasco Antonio Torres Gallego Juan Carlos Ramos