Art Appreciation 2013-2014 The Natural World艺术欣赏2013-2014自然世界.pptVIP

Aspects of Landscape Painting Composition Horizon line Focal point Balance Foreground Middle ground Background Berthe Morisot, Landscape of La Creuse (1882) Art Appreciation 2013-2014The Natural World Color, composition light … By the early 1800s artists began to experiment with color and how colors change according to those beside them. Claude Monet: Regatta at Argenteuil (1827) Attention to color Claude Monet, Branch of Orange Bearing Fruit (1884) The French Impressionists Claude Monet Pierre Auguste Renoir Alfred Sisley Camille Pissarro Paul Cezanne Berthe Morisot Edgar Degas En pleine aire In the open air…. Claude Monet: Les Paves de Chailly (1865) Bold close-ups Claude Monet: On the Beach at Trouville (1870) The Floating Studio Edouard Manet: Monet in his Floating Studio (1874) Japanese Influence: composition and mood Ando Hiroshige: Tsukauda Beneath a Full Moon (1830s) Claude Monet: Red Boats (1875) Elements of Photography Edgar Degas: Four Dancers (1899)  Innovation and scandal:The Birth of Impressionism Claude Monet: Le soleil levant (1873) Impression, Sunrise The 1874 exposition Beyond Impressionism Vincent Van Gogh: Olive Trees with Yellow Sky and Sun (1890) * * * * Monet: La Grenouillere, 1869 Alfred Sisley: Flood at Port-Marly (1876) Aspects of modern life The term “Impressionism” is coined… Welcome back to art appreciation and welcome to those of you who are new to the program. We have been doing this for many years in the hopes of not only exposing the children to art, but to also helping them learn to look at art, with a curiousity and an openness and an attention to the elements of art like color, line, texture, depth and shape. Each year we choose a theme…This year its is landscape painting so we decided to use the French Impressionists as a means for exploring the way the techniques of art can be used to present the natural world, or lan