ARTH 12A Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Stereoscope, Brushstrokes, Gustave Caillebotte
27 Apr 2018
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April 27, 2018
“Impressionism” Notes
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Impressionism
• Urban, upper-middle class lifestyle
• New, modern, physical features of the city
• Different spaces for men and women (including artists)
• Baudelaire’s Flaneur
• Impression: Sunrise by Money, 1872
o Became the story behind the name of art titled “impressionism”
▪ Defined usually as artists who exhibited in a special set of impression
o Loose finish – see brushstrokes
o Low range of color (but also due to subject matter)
o Smudgy handling of form
o Aware you’re looking at painting b/c signature is on landscape (calls attention
to self as artist)
o Vague and sketchy form (don’t see a strong desire to record details of
appearance of reality, just trying to capture fleeting moment)
• Nadar – first celebrity photographer
o Studio was often used b/c it was a studio and was designed as a modern space
to exhibit art
• Pont Neuf by Jouvin, 1865
o Stereograph – two lends on camera
o Two different photos that come together to make picture (like eyes)
o Hugely popular form of entertainment – easy to buy and depicted people and
places around world (world tourist type of feeling)
▪ People said that you didn’t have to travel anymore because the world
would go to other people through these stereographs
o Picturing ordinary moment in city – bridge that people are crossing
▪ Bridge is a result of house modernization
▪ Boulevards got cut for trains to go to middle of city
o Going out of way to photograph modern part of city (new bridges)
• Le Pont de l’Europe by Gustave Caillebotte, 1876
o Compared to Monet
▪ More color
▪ Subjects easily identifiable
▪ Flaneur depicted
▪ Much tighter finish
o Is an Impressionist – put up money to rent Nadar’s studio for impressionist’
show
• Although the term came from a painting, “Impressionism” is not a style term
based on appearances. Rather, an impressionist is someone who exhibited in any
of the artist-run exhibitions (Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Printmakers)
that took place from 1874-1886
Today we talked about Impressionism art and how impressionism is not a style term.
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