and Vincent van Gogh are both talented painters from the Netherlands. De Witt‚ whose life spanned through much of the seventeenth century‚ lived through the Dutch Golden Age. This was a time of growth for all of the Netherlands‚ and in the arts‚ realism was heavily practiced. His paintings in particular were also quite influenced by the Protestant Reformation‚ where a backlash on artwork in churches – one of his most popular subject matters – left many whitewashed and bare. Van Gogh lived through
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Imagine standing near the pageant in real life. Seeing ripples‚ frogs‚ and flowers smiling up to the sky. The water shows shades of green. After the ripples clear away‚ the water appears very smooth and calm. This painting‚ created by Claude Monet‚ a Frenchman‚ shows a lot about a pond‚ with lily pads‚ flowing water‚ and flowers blooming from the lily pads. The painting‚ created on oil and canvas‚ expresses a moment in time‚ “which fills entirely by a horizon of water‚
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in order to make their work appear life like‚ considering fifteenth century art‚ both Piero della Francesca and Jan van Eyck are masters for this. Piero‚ an Italian painter‚ mathematician‚ and geometer‚ fixated on presenting an accurate depiction of physical space and this is made obvious by his masterpiece‚ The Legend of the True Cross: Constantine’s Dream‚ c.1455. Opposed to van Eyck‚ a Dutchman‚ who prioritized furnishing his painting with a ride array of textures‚ as seen in his masterpiece
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Claude Monet was born on 14 November 1840 on the 5th floor of 45 rue Laffitte‚ in the 9th arrondissement of Paris.[3] He was the second son of Claude Adolphe Monet and Louise Justine Aubrée Monet‚ both of them second-generation Parisians. On 20 May 1841‚ he was baptized in the local parish church‚ Notre-Dame-de-Lorette‚ as Oscar-Claude‚ but his parents called him simply Oscar.[3][4] (He signed his juvenilia "O. Monet".) Despite being baptized Catholic‚ Monet later on became an atheist.[5][6] In
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and 1100 drawings. Some of his paintings today are the most expensive: Irises was sold for $53.9 Million and Portrait of Doctor Gachet was sold for $82.5 Million. Vincent Van Gogh suffered depression‚ and in 1889 was admitted to a psychiatric hospital. His depression worsened over time and on July 27‚ 1890 at the age of 37 Van Gogh shot himself in the chest. He died two days later. His last words were “the sadness will last
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Oscar Claude Monet Oscar Claude Monet was born on November 14‚ 1840 in Paris‚ France. Monet spent most of his childhood in Le Havre‚ France. In Le Havre‚ Monet studied drawing and painted seascapes with a French painter Eugene Louis Boudin in his teens. By 1859 Monet committed himself a career to be an artist. Monet spent a lot of time in Paris around 1859. By 1860 Monet met a pre-impressionist painter‚ Edouard Manet. Monet also met other French painters destined to form the impressionist
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Monet’s work was inspired by Edouard Manet‚ an early nineteenth century‚ pre-impressionist‚ painter who was an important figure in between impressionism and realism. Manet’s work inspired Monet to fully commit to the idea of impressionist painting. When discussing his paintings and the inspiration behind them‚ Monet‚ said “When you go out to paint‚ try to forget what objects you have before youa tree‚ a house‚ a field‚ or whatever. Merely think‚ here is a little square of blue‚ here an oblong of pink
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Claude Monet was among the leaders of the French Impressionist movement of the 1870s and 1880s. His 1873 painting Impression‚ Sunrise gave the style its name‚ and as an inspirational talent and a personality‚ he was crucial in bringing its adherents together. Inspired in the 1860s by the Realists’ interest in painting in the open air‚ Monet would later bring the technique to one of its most famous pinnacles with his so-called series paintings‚ in which his observations of the same subject‚ viewed
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Claude Monet Mieka Scott Advanced Topics in Foreign Language Mrs. Roos 1/31/14 “Skills come and go… Art is always the same: a transposition of nature that requests as much will as sensitivity.” This quote by Claude Monet displays one of his many opinions on the craft. He believed that an artist had to have a painting in his head before starting‚ and was sure of the way he was going to execute it. Other than that‚ however‚ there was not much to understand. All else that art required
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artwork is a realistic‚ but expressive painting produced in 1889 by Vincent Van Gogh‚ He painted it in single sitting after having a mental breakdown and injuring himself after a collapse. The portrait tries to convey his distress‚ how everything around him seems to be collapsing in on him and how his only escape from these problems is art. In this artwork the following can be seen: A pallet Paint Brushes Vincent Van Gogh himself A dark background In the middle of the artwork Vincent himself can
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