ARTHI 6C Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Pointillism, Wild Beasts, Fauvism
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Post-impressionism: paul cezanne, george seurat, paul gaugin, vincent van gogh 1880s. Emphasis on expression through color and line, patterning. Paul gaugin, mahana no atua (day of the gods), 1894. Vivid colors: color that is very keyed up. Rejected impressionism"s spontaneous and naturalistic rendering of light & color. Emphasis on more symbolic content, formal order and structure. Color as an emotional and aesthetic bearer of meaning. Visible brushwork that brings the sky to life. Always showing people in their native costume. Intersected the picture with tree trunk: divided into real and spiritual world. Idea was to capture primitive and basic feelings of emotion: area has been untainted by modernity. Emphasis on systematic study of form and color. Georges seurat, sunday afternoon on the island of manet, the grande jatte, 1862. Transition between the women"s dress and the grass o. divisionism: putting a color next to a contrasting color. Purpose was to cover the surface with little points of color o.
