... - a depiction of an operation in progress with psychological acuity in the portrayal of the surgeon Doctor Gross is realism at it's finest. Impressionism is a movement in painting that originated in France in the 19th century. Impressionist painters were considered radical in their time because they broke many of the rules of picture-making set by earlier generations. They found many of their ... subjects in life around them rather than in history, which was the accepted source of subject matter. Instead of painting an ideal of beauty that earlier artists had ... Tatlin. Finally, Surrea...

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... 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 the Siege of ... eacute; Guerbois most often) and studios to discuss their shared thoughts on art. The Impressionists beliefs were to paint from nature, "plein-air- painting, to paint the reflected light, not grey or black shadows but in the colours of the object/s causing those shadows. They wanted to escape .....

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... until about the time of World War I, and was ultimately replaced by the Art Deco style. Impressionism - French and American (1860's-early 1900's) A movement in painting that originated in France in the 1860's. Impressionist painters celebrated the overwhelming vision of nature seen in the splendor of natural light -- whether dawn, daylight or twilight. They were fascinated by the relationship between light ... and color, painting in pure pigment using free brushstrokes. They were also radical in their choice of subject matter, avoiding traditional historical, religious or romantic theme...

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... searched for something more than an imitation. Kandinsky's journey of artistic discoveries began when he first viewed an exhibit of paintings by Monet and was particularly inspired by the famous impressionist art works "Haystacks"5 which seemed to distinguish the powerful sense of color from the form itself - "That it was a haystack the catalog informed me. I could not ... creating a language everyone can understand. Finally, Kandinsky's "Composition IV"10, aims to contain suggestions of war and peace. It is to cause conflicting emotions, provoked by the painting in the viewer. After de...

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Fauvism (which is French for "wild beast") is a term that art critics hurled at the painters whose art they neither liked nor understood when they first viewed it in art galleries. It was a short-lived art movement (1905-1908) that was adopted by a group of French painters: Henri Matisse, George Roualt, Claude Derain, Maurice de Vlamink, Georges Braque, Raoul Dufy, Othon Friesz, Albert Marquet, and Kees van Dongen (a Dutch painter living in Paris). The Fauves' influence was international and is considered as having been crucial to Twentieth Century art. It was characterized by a bold distortio...

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... shapes, colors and images differ there still seems to be an impression of balance. The various different elements and principles I described combine to form visual unity, personally the complete painting shows the life of the woman incorporating her culture, community, region, family and life experiences. After finding the aesthetic qualities within the paining, I found that identifying the ... unique stylistic characteristics within the image came to me a lot easier: 1. As I began to research the selected painting using my textbook, I remembered in chapter one we discussed Marc Chagall'...

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... and objects. Picasso was becoming very successful using the ideas of Impressionists. His style changed, for the better, when he took a painting holiday at Gosol in the Pyrenees. The pictures he worked on there and after his return to home showed two new important influences. ... once. Cézanne's influence is seen in the geometrical angles and planes that would lead the critics to call Picasso's new style "Cubist-. This painting marked the beginning of modern art. Cubism wasn't accepted into art society immediately. At first, the term "Cubism- was used in a spirit of ... form part of a...

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... as well. According to the museum information card on Derain's piece, "choreographed forms of villagers all sway to an integrated rhythm," giving this painting movement. This can also be seen in Benton's piece since the museum information card on Haystack states that this image is depicted through "rhythmic swirls ... urban bustle of London's waterways (CM)" as seen in Benton's work which shows the laborious rural poor of the depression era. Both of these painting exude cool and warm colors since the blues and greens can be seen, as well as the reds and yellows in both images. Vertical pol...

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... into uncivilized cultures to experience in full the connection between man and nature. After enlightened the artist would then be able to express thought through painting. One of the most enthusiastic painters to travel to far away cultures was Paul Gauguin. He was considered to be the rebel against modern society ... back to an earlier time asking why we were put on this earth and by whom, and so on. It is a very large and wide painting that seems to have a type of narrative to it. Pictured is a Tahitian paradise filled with females of all ages that are enjoying what nature has ... the ...

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... a skill which I will use in all future paintings, and also how to create very emotional work through color. Up until this unit I thought landscape painting was a boring and lesser art, but this unit helped me see that color can make anything exciting. Essential Quesiton: How can color create emotion? First ... of all color combinations, such as those we learned through our color theory unit, can really add excitement to your painting. In mine I used split complimentary colors, colors which appear on opposite sides of the color wheel. I painted the sky blue, and then added ... the visua...

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... as a whole." i.e. the form, what you see when you look at the picture becomes the content, that is, what the artist expresses. Content is not related to the factors outside a painting. Subject matter - Fauve subject matter is not revolutionary. It .is closely related to that of the Impressionists and Post Impressionists. They showed landscapes, interiors, figures and portraits. It is in ... explosion of 20th Century art. It differed from other movements such as Cubism, in that it was of such short duration. They did not introduce radically new concepts into 20th C painting. Rather they ...

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... the 1500s and 1600s. Renaissance means "rebirth." At this time that is exactly what happened, a rebirth in the world of art. This included drawing, painting, sculpture, and architecture. Many artists use the subject of the human body. They also concentrated on the use of perspective. Some artists of the late ... money than he made and quickly got into debt. He spent his last years in poverty, he continued to be faithful to his first love of painting. In the 18th century, Paris became the new center of the arts. Two new styles, Rococo and Neoclassical, that came about during this time .....

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... New York predecessor by focusing on his exceptional achievement between 1904 and 1917. They were his finest years, the period when he irradiated modern painting with a revolutionary vision of colour at its most blazing and sensuous. But in this early self-portrait he looks earnest, almost puritanical " ... high-keyed colour. The debt to the optical dazzle of Pointillism is clear. And Signac, who had a villa at St Tropez, liked the painting sufficiently to buy it for 500 francs. All the same, the particles of pigment in Luxe, calrne et volupté were larger and more ... Gauguin but bou...

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Cezanne - beyond Impressionism. Another artist who drew his inspiration from outdoors was Cezanne, who also had a distinct style of painting. To move away from the style of the broken colour of the impressionists, Cezanne devised a system of modulating the colours from a volume of cool to warm or light to dark. ... . This technique, for example, can be seen in Cezanne's Still Life with Apples, a Bottle and a Milk Pot. In this painting we are able to see how Cezanne literally escapes the use of encompassing lines. The artist loses the edges in this painting, producing an image that passes into...

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... to apply point in abstraction. By the end of the movement, each artist had firmly established the use of colour as an openly expressive element. The subject matter of Matisse's painting is a room, dominated by red, with a table setting, a woman to the far right and a window in the top left corner. The table is covered in a decorative pattern, inspired by oriental ... red, showing a green field, trees and bushes, and a small building in the very top-left corner. The subject matter is well balanced and effectively positioned. Matisse's aims for this particular painting appeared to have be...

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... and emotions. It's let's you express yourself better than traditional art would. You can mess up and it won't matter that much. It's a much more relaxed and carefree way of painting. Cubists were very talented but it was a much easier thing for "normal" people to do. They could do it and not feel like a fool if it didn't turn out exactly ... "Upper Weimar" by Lyonel Feininger. It looks kind of like houses on a street all jumbled together. I also like "Jour" by Georges Braque. It has lots of different items in the painting. I think it looks cool because it's just kind of random things al...

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... , materials, and techniques. In the 18th century the concept of space was used in France this was considered modern art. In the mid 19th century the rise of bohemian artists painting stood as the scandal of the time but then it became the legacy in the future. The first period to use planar recession was neoclassicism. Neoclassicism is harsh sculptural lines ... art establishment known as the Academy. Although many of the artists had different styles they all were against the Academic style and the subject matter. They were more into nature, painting it and working in it. They were very ...

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... and living independently, Braque lived a very active life to begin his career, traveling to countless museums and art exhibitions and meeting many artists. At first, he made more Fauvist works, painting alongside Friesz and Dufy and was relatively successful. However, at around 1907, Braque seemed heavily influenced by Paul Cezanne and began shifting towards his cubism. His works from 1908-1913 ... ...

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... Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh. The Fauvists used non-natural hues, where colour was stripped of its descriptive, representational role. The importance of Fauvism is limited: it helped to free painting from Realism, freeing the use of colour. Russian Constructivists 1915-1920 • simple geometric forms: circles, squares, triangles etc • white space, un cluttered • blocks of colour: red, black ... ...

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... also now recognized for the brilliant invention he brought to his sculptural compositions. Born in La Cateau-Cambrésis, in northern France, Matisse first studied law before taking up painting at the age of twenty-one, and in 1891 he enrolled at the Académie Julian in Paris. The following year he transferred to the École des Beaux ... ...

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