Picture of the Academie des Beaux Arts Students
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Rembrandt van Rijn's The Artist's Studio
- Paints were frequently mixed in an artist's studio ..+Tempura used egg ..+Pigments used were made of ocre (dirt), carmine (smushed cochineal bug), and bone black (just like it sounds)
- Painters did all of their painting in dark studios (even landscapes)
- Pigments were expensive (Lapus Lazuli)
Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise
- Style is short, quick brush strokes that resolve into an image
- Bright colors with no dark underpainting
- Subjects that related to modernity and city life
Vincent Van Gogh's Wheat Feild with Cypresses
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- Invention of paint tubes w/ pre-mixed colors, foldable easels made it possible for artist's to leave the studio and paint within nature itself.
- This outdoor work inspired new subjects and loose, energetic styles of painting.
Claude Monet's Wild Poppies Near Argenteuil
Georges Seurat's Sunday on the Grande Jatte
- Simultaneous Contrast, complementary colors placed next to each other make each other appear brighter ..+Luminance is the amount of light reflected by a pigment. Monet's poppies (red and green have same luminance)
- Shadows are the complementary colors of the light that is shining ..+Impressionist shadows are frequently blue in opposition of the "Chrome Orange" of the sun
Vincent Van Gogh's Church at Auvers
Vincent Van Gogh's Undergrowth with Two Figures
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- With the invent of new pigments (Prussian Blue, Alizarin Crimson, Cadmium Yellow) ..+ bright colors of Van Gogh's paintings (also he ate poisonous cadmium yellow!)
- Turner's bright reds were famous, but did not last the century ..+Untested lightfastness
(http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/imml/hd_imml.htm) (http://www.workwithcolor.com/color-properties-definitions-0101.htm) (https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/)