Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in Paris

Dear All

In Paris, We have seen some artists also responded to their modern surroundings . Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement against tradition and norm.  The Movement in art and literature that rejected the subjective, emotional, exotic  sentiments  took Arts and human civilisation one step further.  Post-Impressionism movement in France  ushered in an era during which painting transcended its traditional role as a window onto the world and instead became a window into the artist's mind and soul and  personal meanings. 

We also visited the Centre Pompidou  in Paris  which rocked the architecture world when it opened in 1977, with its exposed ventilation ducts, brightly colored pipes,  the design to optimise natural lighting  and covered escalators crisscrossing the modern museums’ exterior, but we missed the exhibitions inside. 

Impressionism - Overview - Goodbye-Art Academy - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kuOonogw-TM

Bill

Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s. Impressionist painting characteristics include relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles.

The Impressionists faced harsh opposition from the conventional art community in France. The name of the style derives from the title of a Claude Monet work, Impression, soleil levant(Impression, Sunrise), which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the term in a satiricalreview published in the Parisian newspaper Le Charivari.

The development of Impressionism in the visual arts was soon followed by analogous styles in other media that became known as impressionist music and impressionist literature.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism

"Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye...It also includes the inner pictures of the soul."

In 1872, Claude Monet radically altered the path of painting, ushering in a revolutionary mode of visual expression in which artists responded to their modern surroundings. This was achieved in the painting Impression, Sunrise(1872). 

Post Impressionism at Musée d'Orsay

Impressionism - Overview - Goodbye-Art Academy - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kuOonogw-TM

Impressionist art: from Musee d'Orsay to National Museum of Korea - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PfVcJ52PAg4

The Impressionist Revolution short documentary - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V2iX2NpWA7g

Post-Impressionism movement in France for the work of such late 19th-century painters as Paul Cézanne, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and others. All of these painters except van Gogh were French, and most of them began as Impressionists; each of them abandoned the style, however, to form his own highly personal art. Impressionism was based, in its strictest sense, on the objective recording of nature in terms of the fugitive effects of colour and light. The Post-Impressionists rejected this limited aim in favour of more ambitious expression, admitting their debt, however, to the pure, brilliant colours of Impressionism, its freedom from traditional subject matter, and its technique of defining form with short brushstrokes of broken colour. The work of these painters formed a basis for several contemporary trends and for early 20th-century modernism.

Impressionism / Post-Impressionism Lecture - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ucsjYz0FGj0

Musée d'Orsay : visite et tableaux impressionnistes - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zSXy2vZYqI8

Post-Impressionism - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eV_ZntDBlW4

Henri Matisse combined his paintings in the Rosaire chapel which remains a sacred art monument , unique in the world from 1948.   His masterpiece - the design of the Vence chapel. 

The white walls, floor and the ceiling contrast with the stain glass windows which each day allow the day light to penetrate through. The stain glass windows are composed of three colours : yellow (the light of the sun and of God), green (nature) and blue ( the Mediterranean sky). Three big paintings engraved on white ceramic decorate the walls of the chapel. Only the reflection of the stain glass windows project colour on the three compositions. “Saint Dominique”, “The Virgin Mary and Child” and the “Stations of the cross”.

http://vence.fr/the-rosaire-chapel?lang=

The   Centre Pompidou  in Paris  is a cultural reference of the highest level, it rocked the architecture world when it opened in 1977, with its exposed ventilation ducts, brightly colored pipes,  the design to optimise natural lighting  and covered escalators crisscrossing the modern museums’ exterior.

The Architect Piano said the Pompidou  was about making culture more accessible — creating curiosity. As Europe's largest modern art gallery, visitors can enjoy over 50,000 works of art and masterpieces by Picasso, Duchamp, Ernst and Miró. As the largest and most important museum of modern art in Europe, and one of the most renowned in the world, Centre Pompidou is a must-see attraction when you’re visiting Paris. Featuring the late 19th-20th century art, explore its collections and galleries featuring over 50,000 works, including movements from Fauvism, Cubism, Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism.

Modern Art at Pompidou Center - Paris 2013 - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9rFtzWCfOxs

Best Regards

Bill