... with others. For me, the human element in art is the most interesting and profound. In this paper, I will discuss Paul Gauguin's Nevermore, Edouard Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergere, and The Potato Eaters by Vincent van Gogh. These pieces are not related in any coherent way, but the ... though there are two barmaids with their backs towards each other, but after careful examination, one can tell it is really a reflection. Critics' denounced Manet for his apparent "mistake- of omitting the customer in the composition (Levy, pg. 129). This peculiarity of the painting is precisely what mak...

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... Bazille due to their shared discontent with academic teaching. So they began their own group also later joined by Camille Pissarro, Paul Cezanne, Berthe Morisot, Armand Guillaumin, Edgar Degas and Edouard Manet. They were given the name Impressionists after Monet's painting Impression:Sunrise. It was the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War, the set-up of the Third Republic of France, and ... Durand-Ruel exhibited Monet and Pissarro's works in London, and in turn also formed a long lasting friendship and business relationship with the Impressionist artists. He also purchased works by De...

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Paul Cézanne wasn't interested in what people thought of him, his paintings or his lifestyle. Instead, he focused on pleasing himself with the aesthetics of his work and rendered images of favorite landscapes and objects with a pleasing form. Born at Aix-en-Provence in 1839, Cézanne was Frenchman. He went to school in Aix, where he studied law for three years while simultaneously attending drawing classes. Against his father's reluctance, he made up his mind that he wanted to paint instead of continuing with law, and went to Paris to study art in 1861. From the beginning, Cézanne was drawn ...

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... a splatter effect to the whole work of art. I guess I didn't get the vibrant geometric feel of what the painting should be. The last work off art to my disliking was Edouard Manet's painting entitled Portrait of a Countess Albaze`. The painting had a weird technique that made the painting look very fuzzy and unflattering. I know this is silly but it looked like she had ... ...

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