Slide1 : Photography: 1826-1910
Slide2 : Nicephore Niepce: View from His Window at Gras, 1826…earliest surviving photograph
Slide3 : Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre: Paris Boulevard, 1839
Slide4 : Daguerre: Paris Boulevard, Detail The first man caught on film.
Slide5 : Types of Photography
Documentary
Portrait
Art
Each type of photography developed separately and had a different effect on society.
Slide6 : Developments in technology
William Fox Talbot…calotypes
or negatives
Wet-Plate…reduced exposure
time to seconds
Tintype…thin metal plate
Dry plate…rapid speed exposure
Portable hand–held cameras and
roll film by 1880s
Slide7 : Jacob Riis (1849-1914) Riis Published How the Other Half Lives in 1890.
Slide8 : Jacob Riis
Slide9 : Jacob Riis
His photos
led to reform law in
housing and labor.
Slide10 : Felix Nadar: Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt, 1859
Among first to use electric light
in photographs
Slide11 : Nadar Invents Aerial Photography… Sort Of
Slide12 : Photography as Art
Julia Margaret Cameron: My Niece Julia Jackson, 1867
Slide13 : Julia Margaret Cameron: The Angel at the Sepulcher, 1869
1st to shoot out of focus to convey mood…art
Slide14 : Julia Margaret Cameron: I Wait, 1873
Slide15 : Early Impressionism: 1860-1885
Slide16 : Let there be light and color!
1st real artistic revolution since the
Renaissance
Goal to present an “impression”
Color on an object changes constantly.
Slide17 : Early Impressionism
Manet Degas
Monet Cassat
Renoir
Impressionism was considered so outrageous that it is said pregnant women were barred from exhibitions lest the “filth” injure their unborn children. A newspaper claimed one gallery visitor was driven to madness and went around biting people.
Slide18 : Edward Manet: The Fifer One art critic said that Manet’s work was a “practical joke… a shameful, open sore.”
Slide19 : Edward Manet: The Bar at Folies-Bergere, 1882
Slide20 : Claude Monet: Rouen Cathedral (Day), 1894 Monet was obsessed with light and made a series of painting depicting Rouen Cathedral at different times of the day.
Slide21 : Claude Monet: Rouen Cathedral (Twilight), 1894 Monet was also obsessed with water and once said that he wanted to be buried in a buoy.
Slide22 : Claude Monet: Rouen Cathedral (Evening), 1894 Monet was such a compulsive painter that when his wife died, he painted her as the color drained from her body.
Slide23 : Claude Monet: Impressionism: Sunrise, 1872
Slide24 : Claude Monet: Water Lilies (The Clouds), 1903
Slide25 : Auguste Renoir: Le Moulin de la Galette, 1876
Slide26 : Edgar Degas: Prima Ballerina, 1876
Slide27 : Edgar Degas: The Glass of Absinthe, 1876 This painting is what inspired the story of “Madame Bijou” in the movie Titanic.
Slide28 : Mary Cassat: Young Mother Sewing, 1893 Though American by birth, Cassat lived in Paris. Her subjects were mostly women because the morals of the day would not permit her to be alone with men.
Slide29 : Late Impressionism (Post-Impressionism):
1880-1905
Slide30 : Georges Seurat (Inventor of Pointillism): A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, 1885
Slide31 : Toulouse-Lautrec: Moulin Rouge: La Goulue, 1891 Toulouse-Lautrec was a pioneer in lithography and poster-making.
Slide32 : Toulouse-Lautrec: At the Moulin Rouge, 1892
Slide33 : Paul Cezanne: Turning Road at Montgeroult, 1899 Cezanne was the most criticized Impressionist painter. He became a virtual hermit.
Slide34 : Paul Gauguin: Yellow Christ, 1889 Gauguin was a lively fellow. He once said, “Eat well, kiss well, work ditto and you will die happy.”
Slide35 : Vincent Van Gogh: Sunflowers, 1888 Van Gogh made many sunflower paintings. He once proposed selling them for 40 cents to brighten the walls of poor workers’ homes.
Slide36 : Vincent Van Gogh: The Starry Night, 1889
Slide37 : Van Gogh: Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear, 1889 Van Gogh cut off his left ear lobe and gave it to a prostitute after having a fight with Gauguin.
Slide38 : Van Gogh
Van Gogh made more portraits than any painter other than Rembrandt.
He sold only one painting during his lifetime.
He only won the affections of one woman, who poisoned herself after her parents rejected the match.
He would paint at night by sticking candles in his hat.
After his brother complained of financial troubles, Van Gogh wrote a letter declaring, “What’s the use?” Then he walked into a field and shot himself. Before he died, he said, “Who would believe that life could be so sad?”
Slide39 : Art Nouveau
1890-1914
Slide40 : Aubrey Beardsley
Illustrator
Slide41 : Beardsley
Illustration
from
Oscar Wilde’s
Salome, 1892
Slide42 : Louis Comfort
Tiffany Glasswork
Dogwood
circa 1900
Slide43 : Tiffany
Water Lily
Table Lamp
1904
Slide44 : Tiffany
Peacock
Feather Vases