Realism, Impressionism, and Post- Impressionism

Catalog description

Major artists and themes in European art, mainly French, during the second half of the nineteenth century. Art and literature and new optical theories of color and light. Questions of politics, gender, exhibition strategies, urbanism and the landscape. Major artists: Courbet, Manet, Degas, Monet, Cassatt, Morisot, Cezanne, Seurat, Van Gogh, Gauguin. (Not open to students who have completed Art 16.5.)