The world that we live in is constantly producing new ideas and methods to benefit the lives of many. It is a fascinating opportunity to reflect on all the inventions that have been made throughout each of our lifetimes. Two very important individuals that shaped the world we live in today are Sir Isaac Newton and Georges-Pierre Seurat. These two figures have impacted the science and art world. While some similarities between the processes of Newton and Seurat are evident‚ the differences are salient
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During my trip to the Philadelphia Museum of Art‚ the painting that caught my attention the most was the Old Woman (Woman with Gloves) painted by Pablo Picasso in France‚ created in 1901. This painting was located in the The Philadelphia Museum of Art‚ Resnick Rotunda room and apart of the The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection. This painting was painted during Picasso’s Blue Period. The Blue Period is defined as a depressing and cheerless period. During this era‚ Picasso had a love for drawing
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emancipation. He believed strongly in free thought and speech. Before he introduced figures into his work in 1880‚ giving them a more decorative character‚ his paintings resembled most those of Monet. Later on Pissarro was attracted to Seurat ’s Pointillism and saw it as a logical development of Impressionism. “Two Young Peasant Women.” The young laborers by virtue if their size‚ placement‚ and quiet dignity‚ dominate the landscape setting: an open field near the artist ’s house at Eragny. Pissarro
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60 min classesMaterials: 6"x6" black foam core foamies in assorted colors Elmer’s glue scissors | | Pointillism Landscape | Students have experiment with pointillism since the first grade‚ but now it is time to try something a little more challenging. They will create a simple landscape drawing using pencil‚ very lightly‚ and then fill in their picture using the pointillism technique. The challenge to their project is that the entire thing must be done only using "dots"‚ much like the
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started to seek for distinguishable styles‚ concentrate on themes and deeper meanings and express strong personalities and emotions rather than just focus on optical impressions. Among them were Georges Seurat and Vincent van Gogh‚ fathers of Pointillism and Expressionism respectively‚ two notable styles in the Post-Impressionism as well as modern art. Despite having many differences in techniques and styles as well as careers and personal lives‚ both Georges Seurat and Vincent van Gogh have proved
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For Lesson 5 I was to choose two paintings that stood out from the rest. Since I would normally not purchase art‚ this was something that was new to me. Skimming through the different web sites‚ reviewing tons and tons of different talented artists work pieces made me realize how much talented people surround us! The two paintings I chose are quite different from each other in the styles alone. They stood apart from the rest for many different reasons that I will explain. The first painting that
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developed and transformed the idea of color into his own style. He began using colored dots of different sizes and unique combinations. Close uses three colors (red‚ blue‚ and yellow) he created countless other colors. This method is similar to Pointillism which the concept is to create a solid space using dots of two or more colors in an area. These colored dots mix from a distance creating a new color. “Color isn’t just there in the tube for Close; you make it on the canvas. And color isn’t something
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movement – physical‚ psychological‚ and universal.” Wanted to convey motion‚ dynamic energy‚ and social progress Examples of Umberto Boccioni’s works: PAINTINGS: Riot in the Gallery (1909) His first major Futurist painting remained close to Pointillism‚ however was still able to show an affiliation with Futurism mainly in its violent subject matter
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teacher. Fauvist paintings were characterized by wild brush work and strident colours‚ while the subject matter had a high degree of simplification and abstraction. Fauvism could be seen to derive from Van Gogh’s Post-Impressionism fused with the pointillism of Seurat and other Neo-Impressionist painters. Also Paul Cezanne and Paul Gauguin were also key influences. The Old King: The Old King is a painting made by Georges Rouault during the French fauvism time period. It is an oil on canvas and is
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Paul Victor Jules Signac was a French neo-impressionist painter who‚ working with Georges Seurat‚ helped develop the style of pointillist. He was born in Paris on November 11‚ 1863. He started out as an architect before deciding that he should be a painter at eighteen years of age. He sailed around the coasts of Europe‚ and painted the landscapes. He also painted the cities in France in his later years. Paul Signac met Claude Monet and Georges Seurat in 1884. He was struck by the systematic working
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