MODERISM

Term used to denote an ethos shared by many 19^th and 20^th century works of art often considered to dominate the culture of this era. Begins in 1860’s with the Impressionists and Symbolists. Ended in the 1960’s with Pop Art. Keeping a distance from familiar representations; essences of visual experience.

The French Path to Modernism

    Neoclassicism into Romanticism with a struggle

Jacques-Louis David’s student Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) in turn teaches Edgar Degas (1834-1917) and Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919).
Neo Classicism to Impressionism thus Modernism.

and

Pierre-Narcisse Guerin (1774-1833), a student of a rival of David, to the trigger of Romanticism, his students Gericault and Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863). Romantics to Courbet, leader of the 19^th century Realism Revolution, to Barbizon, to Impressionists.

    Or a path through Symbolism and Naturalism from Romanticism

Romantic painting to Naturalists (Corot) to Cezanne to Modernism.

and

Romantic painting to the Visual Arts, feelings imposed on surroundings, to Symbolism: Gauguin to Nabis thus Modernism.

The Realist Movement has been seen as more important. Now Symbolism is being seen as parent of modern art and Modernism.