Sunday, April 19, 2015

HarmonIntroImpressionismPostImpressionism

April 19, 2015
HUA101

                                         Online Assignment #4
         Impressionism is a style of painting that originated in France about 1870. Paintings of casual contemporary subjects were executed outdoors using divided brush- strokes to capture the light and mood of a particular moment and the transitory effects of natural light and color. Impressionism art focused more on what the eyes see rather than what the mind knows, according to the lecture Harmon Intro Impressionism Post Impressionism. Certain impressionism art had something called open form or “cropping the image” which is a form whose exterior is irregular or broken, having a sense of growth, change or unresolved tension; from in a state of becoming or reaching out.
     This piece of impressionism artwork is called Melody of the Night by Leonid Afremov.
        Post-Impressionist believe in a free interpretation of nature, not to see things but to see through them to a significance in reality deeper than what superficial appearance gave according to the lecture. This period developed from about 1885 to 1900 in reaction to what these artists saw as the somewhat formless and aloof quality of Impressionist painting. This is also art created by French artists. These artists were considered “Beings of extraordinary insight, mysterious, visionary and fantastic. Post-impressionist used paint while other artist were using pencil, sketch, painting quickly and with a lot of rhythm.

Picture of Starry Fright- A Post Impressionist How-To      This piece of Post-Impressionism art is called Starry Fright by Vincent Van Gogh.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Jamilla- good- I see you understand the styles, but this painting is not the original Van Gogh painting, but some interpretation copy- you need to be careful on Google image...

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  2. Still, a cool interpretation of Starry Night. I found it on Instructables.com, a 10-step How To create this on Sketchbook Pro. The last step shows a video that captures Ms. Thrifty's process every 5 seconds.
    http://www.instructables.com/id/Starry-Fright-A-Post-Impressionist-How-To/step10/Time-Lapse-Creation/

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