Throughout the 19th century realistic and allegorical scenes were favored over the avant-garde in the art world. Impressionism disrupted this pattern, bringing the idea that art can capture fleeting moments with exaggerated light and color, choosing to imbue paintings with emotion. Impressionist painters yearned to break away from the high art society’s strict customs, to capture the transitory states of the world around them. The images that come to mind when the term “impressionism” is used are colorful; bridges, lilypads, and sunflowers. But there are other sides to this movement, as Impressionism transitions into Post Impressionism, and the more emotive Expressionism. Artists who so poignantly captured the fleeting beauty of a sunlit afternoon could also capture the fleeting nature of our lives, our fears. You will not see these paintings hanging in a cafe or on a phone case, as Impressionist paintings so often are. The works in Soft Goodbye explore a realm of sobering contemplation, the brief nature of our lives and suffering. Dreamlike insinuations of form flit in the shadows, soaked in ephemeral hues. Expressions and light are transient, where details lack, emotion runs wild. Degas, famous for his ballerinas, creates ghostlike forms from negative space and light in "The Fireside". In Pierre Bonnard’s "Nu dans le bain" his ill wife Marthe lies secluded in a coffin-like tub while color and light refract around her. Themes of intimacy, solitide, loss weave their way through loose brush and pencil strokes. Soft Goodbye captures our feverish battles with our mortality, looking at our existential fears through the eyes of the Impressionists and Expressionists.
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Anna Ancher (1859-1935), An evening prayer, 1888
Oil, 67.5 × 60.5 cm. Skagens Museum
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Anna Ancher (1859-1935), A blind woman in her room, 1883
Oil, 46.5x58.5 cm. The Hirschsprung Collection.
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Pierre Bonnard, Young Woman Writing (Jeune femme écrivant), 1908. Oil on paper or paperboard lined to canvas, Overall: 18 7/8 x 25 in. (48 x 63.5 cm). Barnes Foundation BF346.
In Copyright. © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.
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Pierre Bonnard, Nu dans le bain, 1941. Oil canvas, 122.5 x 150.5
Carnegie Museum of Art
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Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867–1947) Le bain, ca. 1925
lithograph 30.5 x 20.5 cm. (12 x 8.1 in.)
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Edvard Munch, The Sick Child, 1907. 4th in the series. Oil on canvas, 137 × 139 cm. Tate, London.
Edvard Munch is most known for his painting “The Scream”, which is identified with inner angst, turmoil and existential dread. Munch was rejected by his family and community for living the bohemian lifestyle of an artist and using the Impressionist style which was seen as unprofessional and messy at the time. Losing many family members to genetic illness caused him a great deal of grief and dread concerning his health, as well as having inherited mental illnesses. This painting pictures the moment he witnessed his 15 year old sister’s death, he returns to the memory and painted the image 6 times over his life. He later stated "in my art I attempt to explain life and its meaning to myself.", after the painting was ill received by his father and the public.
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Edgar Degas, The Fireside, ca. 1876–77 Monotype in black ink on white heavy laid paper
16 3/4 x 23 1/16 in. (42.5 x 58.6 cm) Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, 68.670
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Eugene Carriere, Sleep, 1897. Lithograph
Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.2733
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Eugene Carrierie, The Sleep (1890)
Oil on canvas, 57 ½ x 42 in. (66.2 x 82.3 cm)
Staedel Museum, Digital Collection (Not Exhibited)
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Eugène Carrière, 1899, Le Baiser à la mère (Her Mother's Kiss), oil on canvas, 94 x 120 cm, Pushkin Museum, Moscow.
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Käthe Kollwitz, Woman with Dead Child (Frau mit totem Kind), 1903, engraving and softground etching retouched with black chalk, graphite, and metallic gold paint on heavy wove paper, 1988.67.1
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James McNeill Whistler, Nocturne, 1878, lithotint, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.8664
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