New Movements in the Visual Arts Something of the feverish activity in the visual arts during this period can be gauged by the sheer number of movements and styles that followed one another in rapid succession: Impressionism‚ post-Impressionism‚ Fauvism‚ and Expressionism‚ culminating in the birth of Cubism around the time of World War I. all of the movements form important stages in the transition from traditional artistic styles to present-day art‚ much of which rejects any attempt at Realism
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Art Institute of Chicago Museum Report When I first starting planning out the trip to down town to visit the museum I thought it would go actually the way I planned it. The plan was to wake up on Sunday make sure I wore enough layers of clothing because I am always cold; get on the train and go. Well it was a bit more complicated than that. I woke up later than I expected but still had fun waiting at the train station with my boyfriend. Also I did not wear proper shoes because when I started
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contemporary social critiques with the modernist myth surrounding the city of Paris in the late 19th century. The sharp contrast of interpretation on both sides is exemplified through three major artworks‚ Le Train dans la Neige‚ la Locamotive by Claude Monet‚ Dans un Café Dit Aussi‚ L’Absinthe by Edgar Degas‚ and Bal du Moulin de la Galette by Pierre Auguste Renoir. Each painting exudes deeper meaning by way of brush stroke‚ color‚ style‚ composition‚ content‚ symbolism‚ and so much more beyond the painted
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LUNCHEON ON THE GRASS‚ BY EDOUARD MANET The painting I have chosen is Luncheon on the grass‚ by Édouard Manet. It was painted in 1863. At the beginning this painting received the name The Bath‚ but it was changed four years later. It was rejected by the Salon Jury‚ so it was shown for the first time in the Salon des Refusés (Salon of the Rejected‚ created by Napoleon III due to the indignation of all those who admired Manet) the same year it was painted. At the moment it is exhibited in the Museum
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during the Impressionist movement. Claude Monet was often described as the father of Impressionism and quickly became popular for his use of muted colors and landscape paintings. Impressionism was a time during which artists denied the use of structure and rules in art. Impressionists shied away from the use of contour lines in painting and practiced the technique of short brush strokes. Impressionism was a
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BY PICASSO WEEPING WOMAN Composition and Brushstrokes The weeping woman portrays a woman who is in deep despair. Throughout the painting‚ we are able to see quite a lot of sharp edges and contrasting colours. The woman’s black piercing eyes are wide-opened‚ her tears running down in clear drops‚ and she is biting a handkerchief which she grips tightly in her hands. Placed on the top of her head is a black‚ yellow and red hat with a blue flower on top. Her shattered image reminds us almost of a
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Academic Institutionalization of the "fine arts” and the nature of academic instruction * The academy set the standard for what was art. * Very specific criteria * Only allowed to do History Painting: an event out of history‚ the bible‚ or mythology * Other than history – portrait‚ still lives‚ genre painting * Subject matter: history/mythology/politics * Studying in Rome was the high point of artistic development * Mengs‚ Parnassus‚ 1761 *
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Romanticism’s Effects on Landscape Art Romanticism was an attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature‚ painting‚ music‚ architecture‚ criticism‚ and historiography in Western civilization over a period from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. Romanticism can be seen as a rejection of the precepts of order‚ calm‚ harmony‚ balance‚ idealization‚ and rationality that typified Classicism in general and late 18th-century - Neoclassicism in particular. It was
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Impressionism begins (c.1874) 2. Post-impressionism emerges (c.1880) 3. German Expressionism (c.1903-1913) 4. Fauvism begins (c.1905) 5. Beginning of World War I (1914) Names to Know: 1. Cassatt 2. Cezanne 3. Degas 4. Gauguin 5. Manet 6. Monet 7. Morisot 8. Renoir 9. Rodin 10. van Gogh 11. Seurat 12. Picasso 13. Braque 14.
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"I am getting a good ’impression’ of you‚" remarked Monet in his French accent‚ "come sit with us‚ for we are just as confused as you are." After I had gotten their attention‚ I noticed they were all observing the Campbell’s soup painting that I recently discovered was missing from the wall
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