In today’s lecture, we discussed Post-Impressionism, and how this movement evolved out of and differed from the true Impressionist movement. A key figure in the shift from Impressionism to Post-Impressionism is C\u00e9zanne. Monet and other Impressionists were fascinated with light and how different lighting changed the way we perceived things. All their works have this ephemeral quality because of the focus on light. C\u00e9zanne is not like this at all, in his own words he wanted to make art that was “solid and durable”. His style is based on abstraction and reduction – he reduces objects into their most simple form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These ideas are clear in his Mont Sainte-Victoire<\/em> series. C\u00e9zanne’s series are much different from those of Monet’s who tried to observe how the same scene transformed in different lighting and weather conditions. For C\u00e9zanne who lived in the south of France, the seasons did not change much and the landscape would be almost identical throughout the year. This makes the images in his series almost identical – this permanent nature of the landscape is also very different from the fleeting nature of Impressionist scenes. C\u00e9zanne is exploring form and color in this series. He uses very harsh, straight brush strokes which greatly flattenens the scene. The paint is applied the same way for objects that are far in the distance and those up close, again flattening the landscape. The viewer can not escape the fact that what they are looking at is paint on a 2D surface, not an imitation of reality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In today’s lecture, we discussed Post-Impressionism, and how this movement evolved out of and differed from the true Impressionist movement. A key figure in the shift from Impressionism to Post-Impressionism is C\u00e9zanne. Monet and other Impressionists were fascinated with light and how different lighting changed the way we perceived things. All their works have this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18547,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18547"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2528,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions\/2528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}