FA 30b Chapter Notes - Chapter 26: Vincent Van Gogh, Crouching Venus, Georges Seurat
8 May 2017
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Progress and its discontents: post-impressionism, symbolism, and art nouveau, 1880 - 1905. Paul cezanne: toward abstraction: cezanne"s mount st. victoire and viaduct is both flat and yet seemingly panoramic. For example, the distant sky is on the same foreground plane as the tree branches. The artist spent several years on many of his paintings and pondered every mark as indicated in his letters and writings. Renaissance composition, and a complementary color scheme (blue and orange). Georges seurat: seeking social and pictorial harmony: seurat"s a sunday afternoon on the island of la grande jatte shows the artist"s interests in optical sciences, notably the science of color perception. The artist used a style known as divisionism (aka pointillism) that placed dots of colors next to each other so that the eye would blend them together from a distance. Vincent van gogh: expression through color and symbol: van gogh"s the night cafe uses bright colors and complementary hues (greens and reds).
