TRANSITION INTO MODERNISM NEO IMPRESSIONISM, POST-IMPRESSIONISM & SYMBOLISM JANUARY 14, 2009
NEO-IMPRESSIONISM/DIVISIONISM Georges SEURAT: Bathers, Asnières, 1884-85, National Gallery, London http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seurat-baignade.jpg
Georges SEURAT: Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1883-84, Chicago Art Institute http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/27992
Camille PISSARRO: View from my Window, 1886, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University http://www.artchive.com/artchive/P/pissarro/pissarro_window.jpg.html
Paul SIGNAC: Lighthouse, Portrieux, 1888, Kröller-Müller, Otterlo (Netherlands) http://www.kmm.nl/object/KM%20104.721/The-lighthouse-of- Portrieux?artist=Paul%20Signac%20(1863%20- %201935)&characteristic=&characteristic_type=Painting&van=0&tot=0&start=0&froms earch=1
POST-IMPRESSIONISM: PAUL CÉZANNE 1839-1906
The Artist’s Father Reading L’Événement, 1866, National Gallery of Art, Washington http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/timage_f?object=52085&image=11824&c=
The Abduction, 1867, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart21/
Uncle Dominique, 1866, Metropolitan, NY http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/hd/pcez/ho_53.140.1.htm
House of Doctor Gachet, 1872-73, Musée d’Orsay, Paris http://picasaweb.google.com/gardenofmonet/Cezanne#5172582972148560818
Portrait of Victor Chocquet, 1876-77, private collection http://www.dl.ket.org/webmuseum/wm/paint/auth/cezanne/portraits/chocquet/cezanne. chocquet.jpg
The Pool, 1878, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo http://www.intofineart.com/htmlimg/image-27747.html (note: commercial site)
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POST-IMPRESSIONISM: PAUL CÉZANNE 1839-1906 (CONTINUED)
View of l’Estaque and the Chateau d’If, 1883-85, private collection http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_C%C3%A9zanne_023.jpg
Trees of the Jas de Bouffan, c. 1883, Courtauld Institute, London http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/images/gallery/8e1d3358.html
Card Players, c. 1890, Barnes Foundation, Merion PA http://www.geocities.com/mygalleria2002/cezanne1.jpg
Card Players, c. 1894-95, Musée d’Orsay, Paris http://www.geocities.com/mygalleria2002/cezanne12.jpg
Bibémus Quarry, 1898, Barnes Foundation, Merion PA http://www.dl.ket.org/webmuseum/wm/paint/auth/cezanne/st-victoire/cezanne.carriere- bibemus.jpg
Le Chateau Noir, 1900-04, National Gallery, Washington http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/tinfo_f?object=45866
The Peppermint Bottle, 1893-95, National Gallery, Washington http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/tinfo_f?object=46579
Ginger Jar and Fruit, c. 1895, Barnes, Merion PA http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_C%C3%A9zanne,_La_vase_paill%C3%A 9,_c._1895.jpg
Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1882-85, Metropolitan, NY http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_C%C3%A9zanne_096.jpg
Mont Sainte-Victoire, Above the Rue de Tholonet, c. 1904, Cleveland Museum of Art http://www.clemusart.com/explore/artistwork.asp?searchText=cezanne&ctl00%24ctl00 %24ctrlHeader%24btnSearch=go&tab=1&recNo=0&woRecNo=4 NOTE: there is larger view at a commercial site at https://www.allposters.com/-sp/Montagne-Sainte-Victoire-Au-Dessus-De-La-Route-Du- Tholonet-circa-1904-Posters_i1953390_.htm
Mont Sainte-Victoire, c. 1902-06, Philadelphia Museum of Art http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/102997.html?mulR=31347
Morning in Provence, 1900-04, Albright-Knox, Buffalo http://www.dl.ket.org/webmuseum/wm/paint/auth/cezanne/land/cezanne.sous-bois- provencal.jpg 3
POST-IMPRESSIONISM: PAUL CÉZANNE 1839-1906 (CONTINUED)
Great Bathers, c. 1906, Philadelphia Museum of Art http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/104464.html?mulR=30306
Self-Portrait, 1872, Musée d’Orsay, Paris http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_C%C3%A9zanne_149.jpg
Self-Portrait with Derby, 1885-86, Ny Carlberg Glyptothek, Copenhagen http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_C%C3%A9zanne_155.jpg
Self-Portrait with Beret, 1898-1900, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_C%C3%A9zanne_156.jpg see also: Maurice Denis: Homage à Cézanne, 1901, Musée d’Orsay http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/works-in- focus/painting/commentaire_id/homage-to-cezanne- 3092.html?tx_commentaire_pi1[pidLi]=509&tx_commentaire_pi1[from]=841&cHash=0 7a4a48c69
SYMBOLISM Pierre PUVIS DE CHAVANNES: Hope, c. 1872, Musée d’Orsay, Paris http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pierre- C%C3%A9cile_Puvis_de_Chavannes_007.jpg
Gustave MOREAU: The Apparition, c. 1876, Musée Gustave Moreau http://artchive.com/artchive/M/moreau/moreau_apparition.jpg.html
Gustave MOREAU: Orpheus, 1865, Musée d’Orsay, Paris http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GustaveMoreau01.jpg
Gustave MOREAU: Jupiter and Semele, 1875, Musée Gustave Moreau http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gustave_Moreau_004.jpg
Odilon REDON: Orpheus, 1903-10, Cleveland Museum of Art http://cleveland.about.com/od/artmuseumsandgalleries1/ig/From-Monet-to- Picasso/Orpheus-by-Odilon-Redon.htm
James ENSOR: Intrigue, 1890, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Antwerp http://puffin.creighton.edu/museums/archive/8_mmcguire/page3.htm
James ENSOR: Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889, 1888, Getty, Malibu http://www.vincesear.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/entry_in.jpg 4
SYMBOLISM (CONTINUED)
James ENSOR: Self-Portrait with Masks, 1899, private collection http://www.vincesear.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/ensorselfmasks.jpg
Paul GAUGUIN: Market Gardens of Vaugirard, 1879, Smith College, Northampton, MA http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Gauguin_064.jpg
Emile BERNARD, Market in Pont Aven, 1888, MFA, Gifu, Japan http://www.cndp.fr/actualites/eleve/expo/ete2003.htm scroll to 11th image from the top describing and exhibition in Quimper, France
Paul GAUGUIN: Vision After the Sermon, 1888, NGA Scotland, Edinburgh http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Gauguin_137.jpg
Paul SÉRUSIER, The Talisman, 1888, Musée d’Orsay, Paris http://www.nga.gov/feature/artnation/vuillard/decoration_1b.htm
Paul GAUGUIN: The Spirit of the Dead are Watching, 1892, Albright-Knox, Buffalo http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Gauguin_025.jpg
Paul GAUGUIN: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where are We Going?, 1897, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Gauguin_142.jpg
Edvard MUNCH: Puberty, 1893, National Gallery, Oslo http://www.artchive.com/artchive/M/munch/puberty.jpg.html
Edvard MUNCH: The Scream, 1894, National Gallery, Oslo http://www.munch.museum.no/work.aspx?id=17&wid=1#imagetops
Edvard MUNCH: Dance of Life, 1894, Munch Museum, Oslo http://artchive.com/artchive/M/munch/dancelif.jpg.html
Edvard MUNCH: Anxiety (oil on canvas), 1894, National Gallery, Oslo http://www.munch.museum.no/work.aspx?id=17&wid=8#imagetops
Edvard MUNCH: Anxiety, (woodcut), 1896 http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A4164 &page_number=16&template_id=1&sort_order=1
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THE INDEPENDENTS
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
Self-Portrait at the Easel, 1887, Rijksmuseum van Gogh, Amsterdam http://www3.vangoghmuseum.nl/vgm/index.jsp?page=2322&collection=1285&lang=en
Potato Eaters, 1885, Rijksmuseum van Gogh, Amsterdam http://www3.vangoghmuseum.nl/vgm/index.jsp?page=1303&lang=en Note: this painting is almost impossible to reproduce. The overall view is terrible on this site but the enlargements are very good. The best overall view (but small) is at http://blogs.princeton.edu/wri152-3/f05/dtso/van_gogh_and_suffering.html
Terrace at the Tuileries, c. 1886, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA Note: I haven’t yet found an image on the web. If you fine one, please let me know!
Japonaiserie: the Courtesan, 1887-88, Rijksmuseum van Gogh, Amsterdam http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/Painting/248/Japonaiserie:-Oiran-(after- Kesa%C3%83%C2%AF-Eisen).html
Dance Hall, 1888, Musée d’Orsay, Paris http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/Painting/95/Dance-Hall-in-Arles,-The.html
View of Arles with Irises in Foreground, 1888, Rijksmuseum van Gogh, Amsterdam http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/Painting/696/View-of-Arles-with-Irises-in-the- Foreground.html
Street in Sainte-Marie-de-la-Mer (oil on canvas), 1888, private collection http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/Painting/598/Street-in-Saintes-Maries.html
Street in Sainte-Marie-de-la-Mer (pencil and ink wash on paper), 1888, Metropolitan, New York http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Van_Gogh/slideshow/slide.asp?item=4
The Sower, 1888, Kröller-Muller, Otterlo http://www.kmm.nl/object/KM%20106.399/The-sower see also Jean François Millet, The Sower, 1850, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston http://faculty.etsu.edu/kortumr/HUMT2320/realism/htmdescriptionpages/sower.htm
Portrait of Patient Escalier, August 1888, private collection http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/Drawing/2151/Portrait-of-Patience- Escalier.html
Cafe Terrace, Place du Forum, September 1888, Kröller-Müller, Otterlo http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/Painting/53/Caf%C3%A9-Terrace-on-the- Place-du-Forum,-Arles,-at-Night,-The.html
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Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) (continued)
Night Café, 1888, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven http://artgallery.yale.edu/pages/collection/permanent/pc_modern.html (2nd row, 5th from left)
Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, 1889, private collection http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/Painting/2116/Self-Portrait-with-Bandaged- Ear-and-Pipe.html
Hospital Corridor at Saint-Rémy, 1889, Museum of Modern Art, New York http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/Watercolor/1807/Corridor-of-Saint-Paul- Asylum-in-Saint-R%C3%A9my.html
Starry Night, 1889, Museum of Modern Art, New York http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/Painting/508/Starry-Night.html
Portrait of Dr. Gachet, 1890, Musée d’Orsay, Paris http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/works-in- focus/search/commentaire.html?no_cache=1&zoom=1&tx_damzoom_pi1[showUid]=2 402
Church at Auvers, 1890, Musée d’Orsay, Paris http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/Painting/62/Church-at-Auvers,-The.html
Wheatfields with Blackbirds or Crows, July, 1890, Rijksmuseum van Gogh, Amsterdam http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/Painting/746/Wheat-Field-with-Crows.html
Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)
Le Divan Japonaise, c. 1890, lithograph http://moma.org/exhibitions/1997/paris1890s/lautrecdivan.html
Jean Avril Leaving the Moulin Rouge, 1892, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2005/toulouse/063-033.htm
The Sofa, 1894-96, Metropolitan, New York http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henri_de_Toulouse-Lautrec_009.jpg
Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) (Le Douanier)
Sleeping Gypsy, 1897, Museum of Modern Art, New York http://www.abcgallery.com/R/rousseau/rousseau2.html
The Dream, 1910, Museum of Modern Art, New York http://www.abcgallery.com/R/rousseau/rousseau78.html