Assignment #4 Late 18th and 19th Century Art- Romanticism- Post Impressionism

Impressionism 

Impressionism had artists leave their homes or workplaces and discovering that they could draw art from the environment around them. Artists were able to go outside their homes and find beautiful, scenic locations that the artist would then use their skills to create such images. Artists used various weather conditions to help display the scenic location in their own eyes that would help others see the artist's perspective. Claude Monet's Coquelicots, La promenade helps display how some of the art was done and how they used different elements to put more emphasis on the environment around them. In this work of art, you can see that not much detail was put into the people in the scene but more on the landscape that surrounds them. There is a divide between the two zones of grass, one with poppies and on the left with bluish green that seems to resemble morning dew. The trees along the outside level of the grass help divide the greenery and the skies of blue. The image also creates this diagonal shift coming the people on the bottom right that stretches through the poppies and into the other family.

Coquelicots, La promenade, 1873
Claude Monet

Post-Impressionism 

Post-impressionism was the aftermath of what impressionism brought to the aspects of painting. Artists of the post-impressionist period worked off and or built off the ideas that period before had used and incorporated elements that they saw were missing in the artwork before them. These artists wanted to look beyond what their in nature and see the spiritual and inner aspect of what they thought was there. Vincent Van Gogh's Wheat Field with Crows brings about a different way of interpreting the surrounding landscape. Movement can be seen when the wheat fields have been rustled after the departure of the crows for their nightly feast. You can see this symmetrical view of the left and right side that join together at the green and brown trail. The dark tone of the night sky is balanced by the bright, golden color of the wheat fields.Along the wheat fields, you sense this feeling of loneliness that is shrouded by the emptiness of the landscape.

Wheat Field with Crow , 1890
Vincent Van Gogh