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While working at Argenteuill Monet often had his friend Renoir with him.
Pierre Auguste Renoir was a different type of painter. He had a much wider range of subject matter and
a wider response to things seen.
He enjoyed attractive girls, good clothes and 18th century paintings of Watteau, Boucher and Tiepolo. The feathery touch
he gave to his paintings is also his charm.
He was obsessed with portraying the ordinary life...the races, ballet, crowds, the cafe life. Many of these scenes were
not painted on the spot, but were refined and composed carefully.
Edgar Degas was another friend of Manet's. He kept aloof from the impressionist Movement, but took part
in the group's exhibitions. This detachment sharpened his observation and also his ability to convey a movement or a scene
with a few lines.
Degas was influenced by the new science of Photography and even more by the Japanese colour prints with their unexpected
angles of vision, off centre compositions and use of blank space, and their deceptive sense of looking unplanned.
He was equally at home with pastel, oil, watercolor and etching.
Georges Seurat 1859-91
An intellectual type of Impressionism was created by Seurat whose mathematically exact and ordered scenes he called Divisionism.
This was based on scientific copor theories as a result of which he laid on the paint in tiny dots of pure color, leaving
them to be mixed by the viewer's eyes. In some of its work, it seems to be too controlled. Eg The Circus
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
He was a crippled aristocrat who found his own style in theatrical subjects of Degas, and then the underworld locales
of the Music Hall, caberet and Bar; disreputable places where in a age of social strictness, all classes mixed, prostitutes,
clients, drikers and dancers. He gives us a dwarfs eye view of this sad life
History of Art
- Write a paragraph about the 4 artists listed here and do a thumbnail sketch of at least 2 -5 of their paintings, and learn
them.
- Start a catalogue of artists and their works for yourself..put them into your Visual Diary. Draw a small thumbnail sketch
of the painting to help you remember it.
- Start a collection of paintings that you photocopy or print and keep them in a file, or cut and paste into your Visual
Diary.
- Start a Computer Diary and collect pages.
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