Socratic Seminar Debrief (5 minutes)

1. How did the Socratic Seminar yesterday help you with the text?

2. What is your opinion on the writing piece (document 1)?

3. Did you feel like the text you read gave you support for the driving question? (DQ: Does being a man or a woman in any way affect the subject an artist chooses or the ways in which he or she portrays that subject?)

ImpressionismUnit 2 Modernism: Late 19th Century (1850-1900’s)

While watching…. (2:05-5:20)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuOonogw-TM

Don’t forget to answer the following questions:

1.What do you notice about the colors and the brushstrokes?

2.How was light important to the Impressionists?3. In what ways does Impressionism become part of the Modernism movement?

ImpressionismCHARACTERISTICS:

• Works of art that try to capture a fleeting moment

• Technique includes significant amounts of color and brushstrokes

• Painting is usually done in plein-air

Plein-air: painting outdoors to directly capture the effects of light and atmosphere

• Subject/Narrative ranges from still landscapes to human figures in movement and middle class urban life.

• Impressionist mentality: Life is constantly changing and moving therefore the only thing that is “real” is the moment.

Picture of Paris streets

Painting of Paris streets

Major Works of Art in Impressionism

Claude Monet, Paintings in a series: Haystacks, 1891

Claude Monet, Paintings in a series: Haystacks,1891

• Series of paintings done at different times of day/days of the year

• Subtle gradation of light on the surface

• An illusion, the eye naturally mixes colors that are placed side by side

• Image becomes clear the farther you step away from it

• Oil on Canvas

Edgar Degas, The Rehearsal on Stage, 1874

Edgar Degas, The Rehearsal on Stage, 1874

1.Worked mostly indoors analyzing the movement of ballerinas

2.Degas was fascinated with capturing the light and movement of the female bodies

3.Capturing a moment that is shown through the cutoff of some characters in the border.

Pierre August Renoir, Le Moulin de la Galette, 1876

Pierre August Renoir, Le Moulin de la Galette, 1876

1. Scenery is not posed, candid motions

2. Clipped figures on the edge suggest photographic randomness

3. Creates light patches to show the movement of the light as people move.

4. Oil on canvas

Mary Cassatt, Mother and Child with a Rose Scarf, 1908

Mary Cassatt, Mother and Child with a Rose Scarf, 1908

1. Cassatt mostly paints women and children (mother-child)

2. Unlike other impressionists she conveys a lot of emotion

3. Subjects are always candid, no posing

4. Depicts women as independent and not needing men to complete them. Women who enjoy other women’s company.

5. Oil on canvas