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    History of Art - Cubism

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    part of the abstraction period of modern art in the beginning of the twentieth century. There was a series ‘isms’ that influenced each other and came quickly in the modern world of art. These include Neoclassicism‚ Romanticism‚ Realism‚ Impressionism‚ Post-Impressionism‚ Divisionism and Symbolism. It was believed to be started with Picasso and Braque in 1907. Cubism was a movement of modern artists going against the accepted style of paintings and pushing the boundaries of what was modern art. The

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    Luncheon of the Boating Party Luncheon of the Boating Party is a European artwork painted in 1880-1881 by French Impressionist‚ Pierre Auguste Renoir. In traditional Impressionist style‚ Renoir depicted a scene from modern life and based it in a place he knew well - the Restaurant Fournaise. Chatou was one of Renoir’s beloved settings and Luncheon of the Boating Party is a romanticized portrait of his friends enjoying a Sunday afternoon on the balcony of the restaurant. His intention was to take

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    Impressionist movement by the time he decided to make a change. Renoir is known to have experimented with “dappling light effects and broken brush strokes”[1]. Impressionism was an art form that was an attempt to record a visual reality through momentary effects of light and color. In the early 1880s‚ Renoir had begun to become dissatisfied with Impressionism because all of his works started to look too similar‚ so he decided to shift his focut for a few months and decided to visit Italy. He became fascinated

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    Monet: The Break Up of the Ice In 1879‚ Europe had one of its coldest winters and Monet was living in Vetbeuil to experience this winter. When the Seine thawed‚ the ice flooded the countryside and damaged bridges. Monet took advantage of these conditions and began a series of motif paintings in which he would paint the same scene again and again under different light conditions. The ice and water landscape were perfect for this type of painting because they were able to better capture the reflections

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    How did new theories in physics and psychology in the period from 1900-1939 challenge existing ideas about the individual and society? New theories in physics and psychology in the period from 1900-1939 challenged existing ideas about the individual and society. Many new philosophies and scientific discoveries challenged the teachings of the Catholic Church. Other scientific theories and discoveries challenged the way people thought of how the world worked. Realism and modernism frowned upon

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    Nico Essers Debussy Research Paper Tate December 16‚ 2011 Influences of Claude Debussy Considered to be extremely bizarre‚ the music of Claude Debussy had to have many influences in order to make it that way. All of the aspects that influenced Debussy clearly showed in each of his works. Debussy was an impressionist‚ his music focuses on a suggestion and an atmosphere rather than on a strong emotion or the depiction of a story. Symbolist poets inspired many of his pieces; he would compose the

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    operas? What is his music like? Why? 9. What is the story behind The Raft of the Medusa? Chapter 18: Toward the Modern Era 1870-1914 Define: 1. Program music 2. stream of consciousness 3. pointillism Times to Know: 1. Impressionism begins (c.1874) 2. Post-impressionism emerges (c.1880) 3. German Expressionism (c.1903-1913) 4. Fauvism begins (c.1905) 5. Beginning of World War I (1914) Names to Know: 1. Cassatt 2. Cezanne 3. Degas 4. Gauguin 5. Manet 6. Monet 7. Morisot 8. Renoir

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    sky keeps the viewer’s eyes moving about the painting while following the curves and creating a dot pattern caused by its swirly pattern. Claude Monet was a French impression painter and was a famous French painter whose work the art movement Impressionism which was concerned with capturing light and natural forms. He was born on November 14th 1840 in Paris‚ France. Throughout his long career‚ Monet consistently depicted the landscape and leisure

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    ART is a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities; this article focuses primarily on the visual arts‚ which includes the creation of images or objects in fields including painting‚ sculpture‚ printmaking‚ photography‚ and other visual media. The term ‘Western art’ largely describes the art of western Europe‚ but is also used as a general category for forms of art that are now geographically widespread but that have their roots in Europe. Art historians describe the

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    an impression of what is seen. Impressionism‚ the art movement that began in the 1870s in France‚ was the first real development of this new concept of painting. Impressionists‚ such as Claude Monet‚ sought to put on canvas how they saw light and nature. Unlike the artists from centuries before‚ the Impressionists were not interested in painting images of nobility or religion; instead they focused more on painting ordinary people and nature. Post-Impressionism‚ which occurred about a decade later

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