ART H 281 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Paris Street; Rainy Day, Bougival, Gustave Caillebotte
Document Summary
Claude monet, impression: sunrise, oil on canvas, 1873. Claude monet, boulevard des capucines, oil on canvas, 1873-74. Pierre-auguste renoir, moulin de la galette, oil on canvas, 1876. Pierre-auguste renoir, a luncheon at bougival (the luncheon of the boating party), 1880-81. Trains= allowed people to go out and venture to places previously inaccessible. Brother and sister (family business) at the party, not part of the party. Artists, journalists, actress, (young hipster type, renoir would have hung out with them) Thick paint= impasto texture is visible when standing in front of it. Orange straight out of the tube, coral/pinky orange- sits on the canvas and attacks your eye. Draws your attention back to the surface creates 3d visuals and destroys that by disrupting and brining your attention to the surface of the painting. Painting local landscape pissarro lived outside paris in the country. Edgar degas, the rehearsal on stage, pastel and ink on paper, c. 1874.