FINE112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Post-Impressionism, Berggruen Institute, Odilon Redon
Document Summary
Attitudes to nature and representation (concern with naturalistic vs expressive/symbolic use of light colour, etc. ) Technique and form (approaches to composition, brushwork, application of painting) The eye like a strange balloon mounts toward infinity. Different attitude to technique and form, application of paint, brushwork, etc. Georges seurat (1859-1891) associated with divisionist technique influenced by colour theory and optics leader of avant-garde after the impressionists. Works looked at for their use of technique (and application of scientific principles) as well as a social critique of late nineteenth century middle class society. Sunday afternoon on the island of la grand jatte; working/middle class/leisure, one of images of modernity- Seurat was devoted to study of colour/light effects, in order to achieve greater luminosity in his paintings; a higher state of aesthetics. Colour in relation to light vs local colour (focused on by seurat) Local colour is not influenced by sunlight or artificial light: permanent attribute of depicted object.
