Friday, September 10, 2010

Post Impressionism


Georges Seurat, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte







Paul Gauguin, Vision After the Sermon






Paul Gauguin, Fatata Te Miti (By The Sea)







Paul Gauguin, Manau Tupupau (The Spirit of the Dead Watches)






Paul Gauguin, What Are We? Where Do We Come From? Where Are We Going?






Henri Rousseau, The Dream






Vincent Van Gogh, The Potato Eaters






Vincent Van Gogh, The Sower






Vincent Van Gogh, The Night Cafe






Vincent Van Gogh, The Starry Night






Edvard Munch, Madonna






Edvard Munch, The Scream







Paul Cezanne, Still Life with Eggplants and Ginger Jar




Paul Cezanne, Landscape with Mont Saint Victoire






Paul Cezanne, Bathers






Auguste Rodin, Age of Bronze






Auguste Rodin, Gates of Hell






Auguste Rodin, Burghers of Calais




POST IMPRESSIONISM

Georges Seurat
--divisionism
--pointillism
Paul Gauguin
--cloisonnism
--Tahiti
The Nabis
The Symbolists
--JK Huysmans
--Stephane Mallarme
Henri Rousseau
Vincent Van Gogh
--Theo Van Gogh
Edvard Munch
--expressionism
Paul Cezanne
Auguste Rodin

Read Chapter 3 in the textbook (Edvard Munch is found in Chapter 4).





A Symbolist Ballet

Below is a recreation by Rudolph Nureyev of the original production of The Afternoon of a Faun that starred the great dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky. It was first performed on May 29, 1912. Nureyev reconstructed something like Nijinsky's original performance for the 1980 movie Nijinsky. This ballet shocked audiences in 1912 with its candid sexuality.
The ballet is based on a poem by the Symbolist poet Stephane Mallarme about awakening male sexuality described in terms of ancient myth.
The music is by Claude Debussy. Debussy uses masses of chords and rhythmic fragments to create an over all effect, a musical impression. He is sometimes described as a musical "Impressionist."






Vaslav Nijinsky in Afternoon of a Faun photographed in 1912