... talent as an artist revealed itself early and during this period he acquired a love of Italian painting and music, which he never lost. In 1782 his family returned to Paris, where, through the connections of his father's employer Louis-Auguste le Tonnelier, Baron de Breteuil, Minister of the King's Household, Gérard was admitted to the Pension du Roi, a small teaching establishment for young artists ... Three Ages (Chantilly, Mus. Condé), shown at the Salon of 1808; in an unusual interpretation, an old man, a baby and a youth are grouped in complex symmetry around the central figure ...

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... not have any interest in an education. He never paid attention in class, always staring out the window and drawing whatever he saw. His parents moved him in and out of different schools while he was still young, but he continued to concentrate on his drawing and not his education. As Richard B. Lyttle tells in his book, Pablo Picasso: The Man and the Image, drawing ... theme started to appear in his art. Although he was still using a little blue, he started drawing pictures of embracing young couples, showing slight hints of might and hope. His La Vie, 1904, shows a man embraced with a ...

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... reference to at least one work by each artist mentioned in this statement. Realism is an approach to art in which subjects are portrayed in as straightforward manner as possible, without idealizing them and without following the rules of formal theory. Realism began as an artistic movement in the 18th Century in ... the left and the head of an old man projecting into the picture at the right. The Rue Transnonain was a street in Paris inhabited by workers who were suspected of participation in the disorders of the Republican Revolt in 1834. When it was fired on from an apartment, the civi...

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