HUM-2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Post-Impressionism, Georges Braque, Georges Seurat
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Seurat: paints with dots, post impressionist. A sunday on la grande jatte: painted by seurat, all dots. Van gogh: dutch, leader of this group of neo impressionism, color is very important to him, was poor because he was ahead of his time, depressed. Starry night: van gogh painted this from his hospital window, kicks off neo impressionism, swirls are used here. Salon des refuses: paintings that were rejected by the public and the critics at the time went there. Les de(cid:373)oiselles d"avig(cid:374)o(cid:374: the maidens of avignon, cubism. Lumiere brothers: filmmakers, one of the first people in the film industries. Arrival of a train at la ciotat: by lumiere brothers. Nickelodeons: little storefronts where you pay a nickel to get in and watch short films. The birth of a nation: extremely racist, first multi reel movie, made million by 1920. Eisenstein: soviet filmmaker, commissioned by lenon to make the battleship potemkin. The battleship potemkin: depicts mutiny on potemkin.
