On Monday, April 22nd, our class focused on the Post-impressionism Era. We began class, focusing on the form of French painters, Paul C\u00e9zanne and Georges Seurat and the personal expression of that of Vincent Van Gogh and French painter and sculptor Paul Gauguin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The First work we focused on consisted of C\u00e9zanne’s Monte Sainte-Victoire<\/em>; a landscape painting portraying C\u00e9zanne’s hometown, a common landscape displayed in many of C\u00e9zanne’s works. The painting shows natural greenery and catches the viewers attention right away, however the mountains are a seen to be accentuated to stand as the focal point, as the vantage point and depth of the painting increases the importance of the geometrical shapes and lines in the painting. Monte Sainte-Victoire<\/em> contain natural green, yellow, brown, and blue tones with swift, varying brushstrokes throughout the work. We compared Monte Sainte-Victoire<\/em> and C\u00e9zanne’s Scene from\u00a0Bibemus\u00a0Quarry, both very similar in natural colors and tone. We also focused on the differences of the two paintings, specifically the intense abstraction of Scene from\u00a0Bibemus\u00a0Quarry. <\/em>C\u00e9zanne’s two works both encompass his belief to \u201c\u2026treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone\u2026\u201d (Paul C\u00e9zanne, class PowerPoint from Post-Impressionism class). We continued class by focusing on the art of the still-life, depicting C\u00e9zanne’s Still Life with Peppermint Bottle, Still Life with Apples in a bowl<\/em><\/em>, and Basket of apples<\/em>.Still Life with Peppermint Bottle<\/em> stood out to me most by the geometrical details and modernism of the bottle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Georges-Pierre Seurat, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande\u00a0Jatte<\/em> and Auguste Renoir,\u00a0Luncheon of the Boating Party<\/em> each portray a technique known as “pointillism.” Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande\u00a0Jatte<\/em>, though, by being commissioned with a material known as cont\u00e9\u00a0crayon, the work leaves little detail of the people compared to the faces, body language, and rich clothes Renoir depicts in his work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n To wrap up the class period, we focused on Dutch painter, Vincent van Gogh. van Gogh’s works consist of a wide range of colors and styles, evoking a variety of different emotions. While we looked at eight different works of van Gogh’s. The last work of Van Gogh’s consists of his Starry Night<\/em>, encapsulating his intense, swift brushstrokes (just one of the many details and meanings behind this work). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Monday, April 22nd, our class focused on the Post-impressionism Era. We began class, focusing on the form of French painters, Paul C\u00e9zanne and Georges Seurat and the personal expression of that of Vincent Van Gogh and French painter and sculptor Paul Gauguin. The First work we focused on consisted of C\u00e9zanne’s Monte Sainte-Victoire; a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17568,"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\/2808"}],"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\/17568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2808"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2863,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808\/revisions\/2863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}