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Lesson 7:

The Impressionist Movement

Pages 38-43

The Impressionist Movement

• Late 1800’s

• Founded by

Claude Monet

• Artist captured his

impressions of a

scene

• Ready-mixed paint

& portable easelsImpression: Sunrise

Claude Monet

Claude Monet

• Gave Impressionism

its name

• Plein-air painting

• Effect of light on the

subject

• Painted many

pictures in a series

• Known for waterlily

pictures Claude Monet, self-portrait,

1886

Claude Monet

Cathedral at Rouen

Haystacks

Monet’s garden

at Giverny was

a great source

of inspiration for

his paintings.

Water Lily Pond

Claude Monet

J

Blue Waterlilies

Waterlilies

Claude Monet

L’Orangerie, Paris

J

Who would

you prefer

paint your

portrait,

Leonardo da

Vinci or

Monet?

Pierre-August Renoir

1841-1919

• Began career as a

porcelain painter

• Worked with Monet,

Pisarro, Cezanne

• Joyous scenes in

dappled sunlight

• Luncheon of the

Boating Party

Two Sisters (On the Terrace)

August Renoir

Girl with a Watering Can Girl with a Hoop

J

Luncheon of the Boating Party

August Renoir

J

Edgar Degas

1834-1917

• Never considered

himself to be an

Impressionist

• Famous for paintings

of ballet dancers

• Also sculpted

• Only French

Impressionist to

create paintings in

the USDancers in Pink

The Dance

Class

Edgar

Degas

J

If money were no object, would you rather

buy a Degas painting or a

Jan Van Eyck painting?

Berthe

Morisot

1841-1895

• French female artist

• Given art lessons

by Corot, famous

French landscape

painter

• The Cradle –

Berthe’s sister with

her 2nd child in 1871

The Cradle

J

James MacNeill Whistler

1834-1903

•American born, but

spent much of his

boyhood in Russia

•Named his art work

as if they were

musical compositions

•His painting known

as “Whistler’s Mother”

is the 2nd most

famous painting in the

worldSymphony in

White No. 1

Symphony in White

No. 2

Arrangement in Black and Grey, No. 1

James MacNeill Whistler

Musee

d’Orsay,

Paris

J

Mary Cassatt

1844-1926

• American

female

Impressionist

• Encouraged by

Philadelphia

artist, Thomas

Eakins

• Mothers with

children

provided the

theme for many

of her works A Ride in a Rowing Boat

Little Girl in a Blue Armchair

Mary Cassatt

Sleepy Baby

Mary Cassatt

Dallas Museum of Art The Bath, Mary Cassatt

J

Henry O. Tanner• Noted African-

American

Impressionist

• Encouraged by

Thomas Eakins

• Studied in Paris

during the 1880’s

• The Banjo Lesson

• Christ & His Mother

Studying the

Scriptures

Christ and His Mother

Studying the Scriptures,

Dallas Museum of Art

J

The Banjo

Lesson

Henry

O.Tanner

Auguste Rodin

• Impressionist

sculptor

• Works left

“unfinished”

• The Thinker

REVIEW QUESTION #1:

What is the title and who is the English

artist who painted this work?

J

The Hay Wain

John Constable

J

REVIEW

QUESTION

#2:

Name the title

and the creator

of this painting

by a French

Romantic

artist.

Eugene

Delacroix

Massacre at

ChiosThe Louvre, Paris

REVIEW QUESTION #3:

What is the title of this painting and

which figure represents Jesus?

J

Jesus

The Calling of St. Matthew (by Caravaggio)

REVIEW

QUESTION #4:

What is the title of

this painting and

who is its Spanish

Baroque artist?

The

Waterseller of

Seville

Diego

Velasquez

J

Review Question #5:

What is the title of this painting by a French

Romantic artist? Name the artist.

Eugene Delacroix

Liberty Leading Her People

J

The Louvre, Paris

REVIEW

QUESTION #6:

What is the title

of this painting

by a Mannerist

artist?

And who was

the artist?

J

The Burial

of Count

Orgaz,

1586

El GrecoToledo, Spain

J

REVIEW

QUESTION #7:

What is the

name of this

group portrait?

What is the

name of the

Dutch Baroque

artist who

created it?

J

JThe Night Watch

Rembrandt van Rijn

REVIEW QUESTION #8:

Which Impressionist artist was known

for his paintings of waterlilies?

Claude

Monet

REVIEW

QUESTION #9:

Which Mannerist

painted this

mythological

scene?

And what is the

title of this work?

Titian

Bacchus

and

Ariadne

J

REVIEW QUESTION #10:

What is the name of the American artist who

was known for naming his paintings as if they

were pieces of music?

J

Arrangement in Black and Grey, No. 1

James MacNeill Whistler

Musee

d’Orsay,

Paris

J

REVIEW QUESTION #11:

Which of these two paintings of the Last

Supper was done by the Mannerist,

Tintoretto?

J

J

AB

REVIEW QUESTION #11:

Which of these two paintings of the Last

Supper was done by the Mannerist,

Tintoretto?

J

A

REVIEW

QUESTION #12:

Who painted

The Arnolfini

Marriage?

J

Jan van Eyck

J

REVIEW QUESTION #13:

What is the title of this painting?

And who is the artist?

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Andrews

Thomas Gainsborough

Combination of a double portrait and a landscape painting

J

REVIEW

QUESTION

#14:

Name the

artist and the

painting title:

J

King Henry VIII

Hans Holbein

the Younger

J

REVIEW

QUESTION

#15:

Name the title

of this painting

and its artist.

J

Fragonard

The

Swing

J

REVIEW QUESTION #16:

What is the title of this painting and

who is the artist?

J

Honore Daumier

Third Class Carriage

J

REVIEW

QUESTION #17:

What is the name of

this painting by a

Dutch Baroque

artist?

And what was the

artist’s name?

J

Woman in

Blue Reading

a Letter

Jan Vermeer

J

REVIEW QUESTION #18:

Who painted this fresco and

what is its title?

J

ANSWER:Raphael

The School of Athens

J

REVIEW QUESTION #19:

Name the artist and the title of this

painting.

J

The Birth of Venus

Sandro Botticelli

J

REVIEW QUESTION #19: Which

artist was the founder of the

Impressionist Movement?

Impression: Sunrise

Haystacks

Claude Monet - the founder of

the Impressionist Movement

Impression: Sunrise

Haystacks