Artwork Review Answer all three of the following questions p

Artwork Review

Answer all three of the following questions per work of art shown below. You should reference your book to aid you in answering these questions. Answers should be in essay format, be a minimum of three-five sentences each, and include at least three terms from the glossary for each work..

“A Sunday on La Grande Jatte,” Edouad Manet

How does this work follow the Impressionist style?

What painting technique did the artist use?

What social issues does this painting address?

“The Tub,” Edgar Degas

What formal quality did this artist explore?

How did his medium contribute to the appearance of his work?

What Modernist interest does he investigate?

“Vision after the Sermon,” Paul Gauguin,

What fundamental differences exist between Gauguin and the Impressionists?

Why did Gauguin move to Pont-Aven?

How does he reject both Realism and Impressionism in this painting?

Solution

Q) How does this work follow the Impressionist style?
Answer:
Edouad Manet was immediately acknowledged as the leader of a new and rebellious form of Impressionism called Neo-Impressionism.
1. Edouad Manet spent more than two years painting A Sunday Afternoon
2. Focusing meticulously on the landscape of the park. He reworked the original and completed numerous preliminary drawings and oil sketches.
3. Creating numerous sketches of the various figures in order to perfect their form.
4. He concentrated on issues of colour, light, and form. The painting is approximately 2 by 3 meters (7 by 10 feet) in size
5. Edouad Manet was extremely disciplined

Q) What painting technique did the artist use?
Answer:
Oil sketches

Q) What social issues does this painting address?
Answer:
He concentrated on issues of colour, light and form.

Q)What formal quality did this artist explore?
Answer: Inspired by optical effects and perception inherent in the color theories of Michel Eugène Chevreul, Ogden Rood and others, Edouad Manet adapted this scientific research to his painting.[5] Edouad Manet contrasted miniature dots or small brushstrokes of colors that when unified optically in the human eye were perceived as a single shade or hue. He believed that this form of painting, called divisionism at the time but now known as pointillism, would make the colors more brilliant and powerful than standard brushstrokes. The use of dots of almost uniform size came in the second year of his work on the painting,

Q)How did his medium contribute to the appearance of his work?
Answer:
The painting was first exhibited in 1886, dominating the second Salon of the Société des Artistes Indépendants, of which Edouad Manet had been a founder in 1884. Edouad Manet was extremely disciplined, always serious, and private to the point of secretiveness—for the most part, steering his own steady course. As a painter, he wanted to make a difference in the history of art and with La Grand Jatte, succeeded
Q ) What Modernist interest does he investigate?
Answer: The results of investigation into the discoloration of this painting have been ingeniously combined with further research into natural aging of paints to digitally rejuvenate the painting
Q)What fundamental differences exist between Gauguin and the Impressionists?
Answer: Gauguin is an oil painting artist. Impressionists is an angel.