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“I have never seen an angel. Show me an angel and I’ll paint one.”       -Courbet.

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Gustave Courbet, “A Burial at Ornans”, 1849. Oil on canvas, 10’3” x 21’9”.

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Gustave Courbet, “A Burial at Ornans”, 1849. Oil on canvas, 10’3” x 21’9”.

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This painting is important because Courbet painted a boring, everyday type scene in a matter of fact way on a very large scale. This scale was typically reserved for paintings of kings, biblical historical events, and mythology.

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I’m considered indecent and vulgar because I’m not a naked forest nymph, wtf.

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Édouard Manet, “Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe” (Luncheon on the Grass), 1863. Oil on canvas, 7’ x 8’8”.

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Édouard Manet, “Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe” (Luncheon on the Grass), 1863. Oil on canvas, 7’ x 8’8”.

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It was rejected by the official academy of art in Paris. This lead to the start of Salon des Refusés.

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The viewers are intimidated by my gaze so they mock me.

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Édouard Manet, “Olympia”, 1863. Oil on canvas, 4’3” x 6’2”.

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Édouard Manet, “Olympia”, 1863. Oil on canvas, 4’3” x 6’2”.

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The painting was made fun of when it was revealed in the official Paris art exhibit. The women in the paint cause controversy. Perplexed couldn’t accept the everyday-ness and realistic aspects. The symbolism from things such as the cat and the flowers mad the viewers mock the painting.

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I may not be as epic as Homer’s Odyssey, Homer still painted me. 

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Winslow Homer, “Prisoners From the Front”, 1866. Oil on canvas, 24” by 38”.

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Winslow Homer, “Prisoners From the Front”, 1866. Oil on canvas, 24” by 38”.

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This was a drawing from direct observation and not idealized. It’s very different from painting of that past that paint figures in epic poses. No one in the painted went through the herofication process. The painting didn’t reference a mythological war or anything from the past.

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All I leave is an impression to the left of me.

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Claude Monet, “Impression, Sunrise”, 1872. Oil on canvas, 

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Claude Monet, “Impression, Sunrise”, 1872. Oil on canvas, 

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Louis Leroy, an art critic, made fun of Claude’s painting. Which coined the name, impressionist. This name was used to make fun of the similar art and artist.

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It’s not my fault you don’t have 20/20 vision to see me in 4k.

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Claude Monet, “Boulevard des capucines”, 1873-1874. Oil on canvas.

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Claude Monet, “Boulevard des capucines”, 1873-1874. Oil on canvas.

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Hasty brushstrokes are the signature signs of an impressionist painting.

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Are the trees growing inside a building or the people outside with ceiling lights?

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, “Moulin de la Galette”, 1876. Oil on canvas, 4’3” x 5’9”

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, “Moulin de la Galette”, 1876. Oil on canvas, 4’3” x 5’9”

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Painting “en plein air”. Painting in the open air. Basically, impressionist started painting outside.

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Claude Monet, “ Camille Monet in Japanese Costume”(La Japonaise), 1876.

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Claude Monet, “ Camille Monet in Japanese Costume”(La Japonaise), 1876.

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This lead to “Kimono Wednesday” an event that the Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts sponsored. The organization didn’t think about the cultural significance of the Kimono and cultural appropriated with out regard.

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Georges Searat, “Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”, 1884-1886. Oil on canvas.

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Georges Searat, “Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”, 1884-1886. Oil on canvas.

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This holds the mark of post-impresssionism. Specifically the art style pointillism became popular and associated with post-impressionism.

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The great geniuses copy, copy shamelessly.

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Vincent Van Gogh, “Japanaserie: Flowering Plum Tree”, 1887. Oil on canvas 

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Vincent Van Gogh, “Japanaserie: Flowering Plum Tree”, 1887. Oil on canvas 

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It the same image as Utagawa, Hiroshige, “Plum Orchard, Kamrido” 1857, woodblock print. A blatantly obvious plagiarism on van Gogh’s part.

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I’m the view he gazes at while he stays in the hospital room at a mental asylum. So… romantic😍

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Vincent Van Gogh, “The Starry Night”, 1889. Oil on canvas.

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Vincent Van Gogh, “The Starry Night”, 1889. Oil on canvas.

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He used the impasto technique. Which is painting with thick amounts of oil paint on canvas.

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Mary Cassatt, “Mother and Child”, 1890. Pastel on paper 35” x 25”.

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Mary Cassatt, “Mother and Child”, 1890. Pastel on paper 35” x 25”.

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Made by one of the only women impressionist painter.

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Mary Cassatt, “The Child’s Bath”, 1893, print.

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Mary Cassatt, “The Child’s Bath”, 1893, print.

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She was an American artist influenced by Japanese art making, the style was named Japonisme.

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Henry O. Tamar, “The Bango Lesson”, 1893. Oil on canvas, 49” x 35”

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Henry O. Tamar, “The Bango Lesson”, 1893. Oil on canvas, 49” x 35”

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He was an African American artist who studied in Paris. Tamar’s painting went against the negative images that were associated with black people.

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Pastel and charcoal, with stumping and burnishing, on tracing paper, pieced and laid down on cardboard.

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The use of pastels where also the media used as an impressionist. Looking at the art I can see the energy and haste that signifies the impressionistic style.

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I am a found object that is already made. #readymade

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Marcel Duchamp, “Fountain”, 1917. Porcelain urinal.

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Marcel Duchamp, “Fountain”, 1917. Porcelain urinal.

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This was part of the DADA art movement that started in the year 1916 during WW1 in Switzerland. Marcel used this as a mockery of art. This readymade brings up various questions. What is art? Why is that art?

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Assisted readymade, post card with The Mona Lisa on it.

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“L.H.O.O.R.” If said out loud in French, it sounds like one is saying, “She’s got a hot ass”. This is making fun at the famous and respected art workin true DADA fashion.

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Yves Tanguy, Joan Miro, Max Morise, and Man Ray, “ Cadavre Exquis (Exquisite Corpse)”, 1927.

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Yves Tanguy, Joan Miro, Max Morise, and Man Ray, “ Cadavre Exquis (Exquisite Corpse)”, 1927.

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This exemplifies the chance, strange, unsettling, and abstraction aspects of surrealism. Joan Miro was really known for automatism.

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Salvador Dali, “The Persistence of Memory”, 1930. Oil on canvas, 9” x 13”

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Salvador Dali, “The Persistence of Memory”, 1930. Oil on canvas, 9” x 13”

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Subversive Realism. Artist of this style like to explore dreams and the subconscious influences through the use of art. Super reality, a reality beyond what we normally see. The dreams we have can show familiar yet uncanny imagery.

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Fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon. These are readymade as well. 

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Meter Oppenheim, “Object (Luncheon in Fur)”, 1936.

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Meter Oppenheim, “Object (Luncheon in Fur)”, 1936.

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This artist was part of the surrealist art movement. They make the familiar strange and unsettling. She had tea with Picasso which lead to this idea. This art is important because it challenges our senses. Just by looking we can imagine how soft fur feels across our lips as we drink our favorite beverage.