He wrote that he "wanted to make of Impressionism a lasting art like that of the museums- and that he "wanted to do Poussin over again according to nature."" ... dimensional quality of the canvas, and it is this tension that gives a vitality to his art, as well as the tension between abstract forms and the forms of nature. Although Cézanne sought a geometric underpinning for his art, he never abandoned the forms of nature for those of the cylinder, the sphere, and the cone, as his followers, the Cubists, were to do....

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It was a confusing piece of art work. ... Another piece of Art that had interesting points of view was painted by Renoir, called The Loge in 1874. ... The two exquisite pieces pf art, one by Renoir and the other by Manet had similarities. ... Finally, two paintings with so much detail and both interesting in their own ways showed impressionism. ...

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After visiting the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston for the first time, I observed many interesting works of art representing various time periods. ... Fauve, meaning "wild beasts" in French, was a movement driven by "a desire to develop an art that had the directness of Impressionism but also had the intense color juxtapositions and their emotional capabilities (964).... Coming from very different time periods, Andre Derain and Thomas Hart Benton both incorporate their genre's style into their own expressive art. Both of these men were influential leaders of their periods a...

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