Identify two paintings of your interest then specify: (The whole assignment is in essay type format).…
Impressionism was used in the painting by Pierre Auguste Renoir titled The Luncheon of the Boating Party. This work of art was painted using live models that posed when available and pieced into the painting. Renoir was following the techniques that were began by Claude Monet. “In the late 1860s, the young painter Claude Monet began to employ the same rich, thick brushstrokes Monet was already using, but with an even looser hand”; “Most of all, he painted with the intense hues made possible by the development of synthetic pigments” (Sayre, 2010). Impressionists as they were known as because of Monet’s painting Impression- Sunrise, were first called “Painters, Sculptors, Engravers, etc. Inc.” Impressionists’ paintings are so vibrant and photographic looking it’s almost as if a real photo had been taken. Painters of this…
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a french painter who was known for making magnificent paintings that mostly persisted of women and children. But, a great artist doesn’t just pop up out of nowhere and automatically become who they are. Most artists have extremely rough beginnings and sometimes it’ll take more than half their lives to get their work out there.…
Henri Cartier-Bresson is among some of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. His photographs appear in most popular magazines such as, Life, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue and also co founding Magnum Photo Agency. Cartier-Bresson pursued photography with an impulsive passion that he refined into a photojournalistic art form. He is also well know for coining the phrase “The Decisive Moment” in photography, which is capturing the moment something is happening creating a photograph that leaves the viewer waiting. In better terms the decisive moment is “the one that fixes forever the precise and transitory instant.” It is important to keep in mind each picture was exposed on film and could only be viewed after the film was developed;…
In World War II, the Nazis had overtaken most of Europe. They plundered all the best of Europe’s resources, particularly each nation’s great art treasures. As Germany’s leaders, Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goering had unusual interest in collecting these masterpieces. Among all the art available to them some art held a special appeal. The art of Johannes Vermeer was a coveted prize to both of them.…
The year was 1876 when Pierre Augustus Renoir painted his Le Moulin De La Galette this piece of art was in the style of impressionism. This was a fairly new art style during these years thus making it very popular at the time. Renoir’s works has endured the test of time with the popularity of his art and is still one of history’s more prominent artists.…
This style of art is abstract representational because the painting is somewhat representational, yet it is not based on the real world. Representational artwork is art that has recognizable forms. This is the case because I can comprehend that the painting is of some sort of performance on a stage. The colors in this painting are really nice to…
However most of his major work were focus on self- portraits and describe the feeling of the characters’ feeling. Rembrandt was also famous by oil painting and carvings. Rembrandt Van Rijn said “choose only one master- nature” or he also said “I cannot paint the way they want me to paint and they know that too.” Basic on the two quotes that he had said, we can tell that he tried to make his works as naturalistic as he can. He would draw what he saw, the way he feel and understand. He could not paint what people what people expected him to do. To me, that is a reason all of his works considered to be very…
He laid the groundwork for future impressionist and is considered by some to be the godfather of the movement.. Impressionist is a painting technique where the painter creates a fleeting impression of his subject matter by capturing how the light moves around the scene. The subject matter in Impressionist paintings is often not as important of the fleeting feeling put onto canvas. The movement was a departure for traditional European painting because of its short strokes of broken color instead of long stead strokes. Camille later temporarily joined a sub group of Impressionism called Neo-Impressionist. Neo-Impressionism was a lot like a more organized impressionist painting. The small swaths of color where often orderly and in line instead of all over the painting over lapping each other. Pointillism and divisionism are painting techniques that were popularized by Neo-Impressionism. Camille would later turn away from Neo-Impressionism and go back to making impressionist paintings, although his later paintings had a much more subdued and calm…
While both Renoir and Mayo’s art are similar in that they are both from earlier time periods, they are different in culture and where each scene from the painting takes place. Renoir’s painting is a French impressionism, while Mayo’s is contemporary American folk art.…
Henri Matisse was born December 31st, 1869 to two storeowners, Emile and Heloise Matisse. His father wanted him to be a lawyer, so later on in life he could takeover the family business. They sent him to Henri Martin Grammar School where he studied to be a lawyer. There was a hint of artist in Henri because while working as a lawyer's assistant he took up a drawing course (Essers 7). It was for curtain design but it seemed to be destiny for a lawyer's assistant to take up such a distant hobby as drawing.…
Callebotte started painting during the 19th century French Impressionism period. His paintings were neglected during his time, until now they have been appreciated. Most people do not know what impressionism is, an understanding of impressionism is as follows; the impressionist style of painting is characterized chiefly by concentration on the general impression produced by a scene or object and the use of unmixed primary colors and small strokes to simulate actual reflected light. Impressionism is painted mostly what a person sees in his mind rather than what he see with his eyes, therefore its not as easy as one may think it is to paint.…
Let's first begins with who Jean Desire Gustave Courbet was. Gustave Courbet was a famous French painter. Courbet was born in Ornans, France on June 10th of 1819. Ornans, France is a filled with forests and pasture's perfect for realist paintings. At the age of 14 Courbet was already in art training receiving lessons from Pere Baud a former student of a neo-classical painter named Baron Gros. Courbet's parents hoped he would go off and study law when he moved out in 1837. To there misfortune he had enrolled in at the art academy. At the art academy Courbet received lessons from Flajoulot another famous neo-classicist. At twenty years old Gustave Courbet went to Paris, the European center for art, political, and radical activists. It was about this time Courbet had started to study in the studio of the obscure painter M. Steuben.…
The dramatically direct approach employed by French painter Edouard Manet (1832-83) started a revolution in the art world and served as a source of inspiration to other artists, most notably the Impressionists.…
Auguste Comte was a French philosopher who lived most of his life in the 19th century. Comte was born in 1798 at Montpellier, in southwestern France. He died in Paris on September 5th, 1857. His birth name was Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte. Auguste Comte was born into a catholic family. He embraced the religion in his early life, but around age 14 he decided that he no longer believed in God. He was also born into a royalist family. He later abandoned the political views taught by his family and became a republican. These changes in his views led to strained relationships with his family members throughout his life. He had one sister. His sister, along with his father, was continuously complaining of ill health. His mother did not have the same complaints but she was known to coddle her son. Auguste later on called his family "covetous and hypocritical" but reasons as to why were never really supported very well. He complained various times (rather vocally) about how his father and sister 's poor health was the reason that the family had little money and could not pay for Auguste 's desires to pursue a literary career. He was also married to Caroline Massin, but they divorced in 1842. He was also reported as being in love with Clotilde de Vaux from 1844 until her death in 1846. Clearly the angst and anger within Comte that was derived from his feelings toward his family changed the way he looked at different things. It obviously affected both his religious and political views.…