After today’s lecture, what is one thing you remember? What is one thing that you are still confused about?
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After today’s lecture, what is one thing you remember? What is one thing that you are still confused about?
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I was never aware of the requirements for something to be considered academic art but learning that today was very interesting especially that is couldn’t show brush strokes and have to be somewhat erotic. I also enjoyed learning about Optical Color Mixing. This is very interesting and I would like to know more about it. I also want to know more about Seurat. The second painting of people by the river looked a lot like a modern artist I really enjoy. I believe they must have studied Seurat so now I plan to as well!
In this lecture what I remember was both jean and gustav painting show realism such as the way it looks and the colors that they use and how they represent low class people. Also how van gogh try to copy the work of ando because he was admire by it. He decided to create it and show how he’s point of seeing it look like.
One thing I remember about today’s lecture is Van Gogh’s two Starry Nights paintings and one thing that still confuses me is if both the paintings are called starry night dose that mean there designs are set in the same place, but just different viewings and or positions.
After today’s lecture, one thing that I remember was how art was changing and the realism when it came to art which expressed the modernism. It shows how art has been evolving from back than to even now where it got better with realism.
After observing the lineup of artworks, one connection stands out to me the most. The link exists between Monet’s Rouen Cathedral series and Cezanne’s Mont Sainte-Victoire series. These artists are hailed as two of the most important figures in modern art and based on these series, it fascinates me with their determination to revisit these sites and attempt to capture the always-changing environment’s effect on their unmoving subject.
Something that I am not clear on the exchange between European art and Japanese art and culture. I am aware of the Ukiyo-e style’s rising popularity and Van Gogh’s fascination with the Japanese works in particular, but I am not sure how the end of the Tokugawa shogunate affected the Japanese’ perception of European art. For example, Japonisme is the effect of the Western world’s discovery of Japanese art but having just been led out of a period of isolation, did the Japanese reciprocate this appreciation of a style that was previously unknown to them? I am familiar with Hiroshige’s work and knowing he would have passed at this point in history, I wonder how his successors felt about Western art, and if it played a role in the decline of art in the Ukiyo-e style.
It interesting to learn there were artists who broke away from an establish foundation of rules and laws to create Realism. I admire the work of Courbet and Manet but even more so of Georges Seurat, he went further to create something magical in our perception of art. I will definitely remember the horrible adaptation of Hiroshige’s Plum Orchard, Kameido by Vincent van Gogh.
What stood out to me in the lecture was learning about the Art Academy. I’ve always learned about art being in accordance with or ant the academies rules. but never fully understood what it was. I suppose I was kind of shocked to learn it was an actual institution rather, I always sort of misunderstood it to mean, like, popular opinions of the time. The piece that stood out to me the most in the lecture was Cezanne’s Mont Sainte Victiore. I love that he painted it over and over again. I also love the sketchy quality of the brush strokes. I think its interesting that he left some of the blank canvas showing, giving the piece an unfinished feel to it.
Something that I remember about the lecture was the fact that in the mid 19th century there was an art academy/ art school that taught art. Anything that was not the art that they were doing or teaching was considered bad art back then. I also remember that the only way to get fame or get money for your art work was the art salon in the art academy. That was where you had a chance to sell your artwork. i also remember the similar realism artwork from Gustav and Jean and how they are both lower classes trying to survive.
– In mid 19c great art was still defined as art
Gustave Courbet was the first artist to self-consciously proclaim and practice the realist aesthetic.
impressionists rebelled against classical subject matter and embraced modernity, desiring to create works that reflected the world in which they lived.
Vincent van Gogh. Starry Night. Starry Night depicts a dreamy interpretation of the artist’s asylum room’s sweeping view. Van Gogh was a great admirer of Japanese art.
In this lecture, the other artworks and their perspectives are interesting to learn especially describing how people were during that time period. I love seeing Van Gosh’s famous painting of Starry Night and it looks similar to Starry Night over the Rhone in 1888. I notice the Japonaiserie Flowering Pulm Tree shows different color schemes as the first image on the left is high key and the second one maybe original colors or low key.
I found the optical color mixing very interesting. I search about that and I found out optical color mixing is a phenomenon that happens when a viewer perceives color in an image as a result of two or more colors that are positioned next to, or near each other. The perceived color is not actually on the surface. It is also so interesting how the artist creates realism. I also got speechless after seeing the Van Gosh famous painting of starry night. I found an interesting thing about the art that Vincent Van Gogh painted “Starry Night” in 1889 from a room in the mental asylum at Saint-Remy where he was recovering from mental illness and his ear amputation.
I found it interesting how the style of painting of pointillism is made up of dots of different colors but once is put next each other it gives an illusion that blends in together. Like the painting “a Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte by George Seurat.