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    5 A - Reflecting on and Understanding the requests of the English Class Test I, TERM 2

    It is rather useful to have clear ideas about the gradual trans-formation of painting techniques from

    the traditional forms of painting in the Victorian Age (focus on the narration of events, scenes, indoor spaces, portrayals ...)

    and THE DIFFERENCE between Impressionism and Post Impressionism in painting

    They developed a GRADUAL TRANS- FORMATION IN THE CONCEPT OF MAKING PAINTINGS and therefore in the way of conceiving and producing art forms.

     

    Impressionism privileges and focusses on impressions, sensations, mutability, simultaneity of feelings (sight and the moment of being are more relevant than the event, situation or scene narrated) ->

    Picture: V. Van Gogh, Flower Beds in Holland, 1883

     

    Post-Impressionism

    (Cézanne, Seurat, Gaugin, Van Gogh)

     shifted its interest from sight to concept

    interested in the structure behind

    finding connections that stand beyond the eye in search of an inner structure, integration of different colours, ....

    volume

    form

    personal quest

    Post-Impressionist paintings were a broad reaction against Impressionism. The works continued to use the bright Impressionist palette, but rejected the Impressionism's emphasis on the spontaneous recording of light and color. Post-Impressionists sought to create art with a greater degree of formal order and structure. The new styles they created, Georges Seurat's divisionist technique and Vincent van Gogh's brushwork, led to more abstract styles that would prove highly influential for the development of modernist painting in the early twentieth century.

    Post-Impressionist compositions focused on the personal experience of the painter, versus fidelity to the object like in Impressionism; the style of the work, developing a new method of paint application or viewing the piece from multiple angles, was more important than subject matter.

  • Characteristics:
    - see brushstrokes
    - personally expressive
    - style over fidelity
    - no fleeting light or moment (= multiple moments or angles)
    - bright palette
    - moved away from journalistic detail of earlier periods
    - art is for the artist's sake

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    Expectation from the text

    The argumentation required the student to develop a text that moving from such different attitudes to art as painting found consistent parallels in fiction (novels, long and short stories) and more precisely showing how J. Joyce's The Dubliners wel represent different aspects of the shift from traditional fiction(the Victorian novel) to a desperate search for impersonality as a means to make a uni-versal speech that included all men according to the need for a quest on the antroppological aspects of human existaence.

     

     

     

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