Impressionism
Beyond the Painters

Literary

• Symbolist Poets
  • Synesthesia - a mixture of sensations
    • "Looking" at sound
    • "Listening" to color
• Poetry of Mallarme
  • "The Afternoon of a Faun"
  • The sensation of a faun's erotic dream

Music

• Debussy
  • Orchestral and harmonic "pallet" of color
  • Blurred rhythms
  • Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
• The ballet of Nijinsky

Post Impressionist Painters

• Seurat
  • Pointillism - small points or dots of color
  • Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grande Jatte
• Van Gogh
  • Saturation of color
  • Thick impasto with a distinctive application with a pallet knife
  • Starry Night
• Gauguin
  • Impressionist with exoticism themes
  • Broad area of flat color
  • Day of the God
• Cezanne
  • From Impressionist to threshold of "modernity"
  • Mont Ste.-Victoire (early)
  • Mont Ste.-Victoire (late)
  • Studies in perspective and form
    • Multiple perspectives
    • Movement away from impressionist color and a return to line and shape
    • Still Life

Sculpture and Architecture

• Transforming Impressionism to fully-round medium
• Texture and light
  • Rodin - The Kiss
  • Paxton - Crystal Palace (exterior) (interior)

More extensive and full-sized art works may be seen in the Art Gallery

Humanities Resource of Mark Hunter