The term Post-impressionism is used to describe late 19th century art that rejects the “capture-the-fleeting-moment” attitude of Impressionism and is characterized by bright colors and defined brushstrokes as opposed to the impasto approach of impressionists. Impasto is a technique in which paint is applied so thick onto the canvas that it stands out from the surface‚ creating a 3-D texture effect. The paint can be mixed on the canvas to achieve a desired color. One distinguishing factor of a post-impressionist
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Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte was painted by a French Impressionist painter called George-Pierre Seurat. He is known for his innovative painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism. The painting Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo impressionism‚ and is one of the icons in the 19th century. George-Pierre Seurat painted Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte through the summer of 1884-1886
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JEAN PAUL GAULTIER Born in Acueil‚ a self-contained‚ working class suburb of Paris in 1952‚ of a bookkeeper farther and secretary mother John Paul Gaultier was an only child. In the 1960 as a teenager John Paul was obsessed with fashion especially the costumes from Moulin Rouge and often pretended to be ill to stay off school‚ draw and have gay fantasies of men wearing feminine clothes. During this time Jean Paul Gaultier began detailed drawings of whole collections including accessories taking
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Water Jousting In France “La joute des mariniers‚ entre le pont Notre-Dame et le Pont-au-Change‚” by the french artist Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Raguenet‚ was created in 1751. The name of the painting‚ when translated from French to English‚ says‚ “The jousting of the sailors‚ between the Pont Notre-Dame and the Pont-au-Change.” Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Raguenet uses certain shades of colors with counterclockwise eye movement‚ many little details to give a different perspective in the painting about water
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On the summer of 1939 aged about nine years old lived in París. That summer came aunt’s Ester‚ my mother‚ older sister to visit us from Switzerland‚ with her husband‚ Uncle Samuel and my cousins‚ Aaron and Issac. Lived with my grandparents‚ my mother’s parents‚ my grandfather’s Elijah‚ who all called The Patriarch. My grandmother’s Miriam and we called her Nanou. In the 4th district of Paris‚ one block from the Rue du rosier in the Jewish quarter of Paris; Rue Francs Bourgeois it’s located our
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The impression piece I choose is “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte”. It is a work of Georges Seurat painted in 1884 depicting a relaxed Paris setting northeast of the city by the Seine River. The work itself is different from the style of the day which had heavy brushwork involvement. This work by Georges Seurat was based on a technique called the “pointless”. This technique is based on the artist making his impression through a series of colored points instead of the use of the brushwork. The colors
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Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream by Greg Sarris wrote about the life of McKay and while telling her story he finds his own story in his search. Weaving the Dream introduces the reader to the Pomo culture and shows that a woman who has worked for most of her life could become a healer and an artist of baskets‚ which were collected and displayed at the Smithsonian. Sarris wrote about the ceremonies and rituals of the few native tribes who still lived there (Sarris‚ 1994). Mabel’s grandmother Sarah Taylor
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Henri-Claude Cosmetics Brainstorming Report Henri-Claude Cosmetics‚ a successful French company‚ has the goal to become a global brand. As a consequence‚ the Chief Executive wants to develop an international advertising campaign. After the brainstorming session‚ we came to the following conclusions: To begin with‚ the brand image should be changed to appeal to an international audience‚ especially to a younger one. So‚ we proposed to target an energetic and competitive man rather than a sophisticated
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The music of Claude Debussy and Richard Strauss demonstrates the movement away from the conventional tonal system through the use of extended tonality to shape their distinctive musical styles. The development of Debussy’s departure from nineteenth-century formal models is demonstrated in Prélude a l’après midi d’un Faune (Brown 131). Strauss establishes his mastery over the synthesis of chromatic tonality and motivic manipulation in his opera‚ Salome. After their defeat to Germany in the Franco-Prussian
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that sectioned areas of high populous cities having varying socio- economic statuses and crime rates. The work of Clifford Shaw and Henry McKay explains crime rates as determinant depending where an individual resides. The theorists create ecological maps to determine criminal “ hot spots” due to patterns of continued deviance in specific areas. Shaw and McKay direct attention towards the discrepancies in crime levels for neighborhoods of varying socio-economic statuses‚ discovering that neighborhoods
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