- Impressionism evolves into Post-Impressionism
- less depth and more expressive color/lines
- artists had their own distinct style and focused on what they thought not what they saw
Music
- The camera is invented in early 1800s and becomes practical, popular, portable.
Claude Debussy
Maurice Ravel
- Wrote music based more on idea rather image
- Wanted to create music that represented visual images.
- If snow or the ocean was a song. What would it sound like?
Japanese prints greatly influenced European artists
Impressionism focused on the effects of light and atmospheric conditions.
Impressionism/Post-Impressionism
- French artist
- Started the movement
- Used short, quick brushtstrokes
- Often painted in series
1850-1920
The Road Bridge at Argenteuil
Claude Monet
- French Sculptor
- Pushed, pulled, jabbed at the clay
- not idealized, less detailed
- showed strong emotion
Auguste Rodin
The Thinker