Monet
-sketched 1st impressionist painting
-Loves pretty clouds
-Nature is organic and wild, often untouched
-Shimmering water and light
-Subjects painted at different times of day
-Many paintings set at his house
Degas
-women in motion: ballerinas and theatre performers
-candid images
-horses
-alienation (absinthe)
-similar color patterns, lots of browns
Cassatt
-Portrays domestic scenes
-most don't have men as subjects
-realistic subjects in the foreground with sketched or out of focus background material
-Doesn't portray sensual women
-lots of children or mother and children images
Renoir
-party scenes
-men wearing hats
-lots of blending in the background to show movement
-Women's faces look alike
-not as detailed as Monet, smoother but blurrier
Seurat
-pointillism (looks pixilated)
-contrasting colors
-separated, alienated, stiff subjects
Van gogh
-Striking color, coarse brushwork, contoured forms
-bold strokes and heavy lines about transcendental character of nature
-crayon-looking colors
Gauguin
-painted bretons who look like puritans
-increasingly abandoned imitative art for expressiveness through color
-disenchanted with industrial civilization, lived and worked in tahiti
-uses color in flat, 2D surfaces with strong outlines to suggest sensual,
Cezanne
-cubism achieved qualities of composition through geometric treatment of space, mass, and color
-eliminated detail to emphasize shape of natural forms
-blotchy painting style with areas of black canvases (looks like watercolor)
-downcast expressions
-mute
matisse
-expressive use of color, color contrasts
-Mediterranean subjects, arched eyebrows
-rejected 3D space
-sought composed space defined by movement of color
-dancing men and women
-happy blue period
-paintings look like photo negatives
-used scissors later i
Picasso
-sculptural sense of painting
-cubism
-geometric lines and shapes