Lascaux
17,000 BC
Highlight, comparison (with rock)
FORM/ COMPOSITION
Egyptian
3,200 BC
Draw 2 arms & legs (reality in 2D)
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
The Supper at Emmaus
Sophistication
Renaissance (the beginning of middle class), people gave money to the church to make art
Claude Monet
Impression, Sunrise
Machinary device (camera) cannot express reality (feeling)
"Critic and humorist Louis Leroy wrote a scathing review in the newspaper Le Charivari in which, making wordplay with the title of Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), he gave the artists the name by which they became known. "
Paul Cezanne
French: Born & died in Aix-en-Provence
Friends: Zola and Baillie
Bread and eggs 1865
Head of An Old Man 1866
Murder
Movement
A Modern Olympia painting
"I want to make of impressionism something solid and lasting like the art in the museums"
"to create Poussin 'after nature'"
"to unite observation with the permanence永久 of classical composition "
BASIC ELEMENTS
Cone/ Cylinder/ Sphere
Manet one
Pointillism
Georges Seurat A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte 1886
Capture reality
Michel Eugène Chevreul
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