Impressionism and Post-Impressionism

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I. Realistic Approaches to Painting

1. William Bouguereau (1825-1905), "The Knitting Girl" (1869)

II. Modernist (Re)Presentations of the Subject

2. Paul Cezanne (1839-1906), "Self-Portrait" (1879)

Impressionism: Sequential Moments of Sensory Experience

3. Claude Monet (1840-1926), "Haystacks at Sunrise (Snow Effect)" (1890-91).

Post-Impressionism: Multiple Perspectives in One Moment of Time

4. Cezanne, "Still Life with Plate of Cherries" (1885-87)

5. Cezanne, "Still Life with Plaster Cast" (c. 1895)

6. Edouard Manet (1832-83), "The Cafe Concert" (1878)

7. Manet, "A Bar at the Folies-Bergere" (1882)

III. Towards Cubism; or, "A Geometric approach to the process of representation"*

8. Cezanne, "Bathing Women" (c. 1900-05)

[Reminiscent of Picasso, "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907)]

9. Henri Matisse (1869-1954), "Seated Figure, Tan Room" (1918)

10. Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2" (1912)

 

 

*Kozloff, Max. Cubism/Futurism. New York: Harper & Row, 1973. 3.