In Woman in a Purple Coat (1937), Matisse painted his assistant and companion, reclining in a Moroccan costume, set in an interior with exotic patterns and abstract ornamentation. He has avoided straight lines in this composition, however the colours clash in such a way that the image still works. He uses colour and light to rejoice in life. This was amongst the last of Matisse’s oil paintings. He soon began making paper cut-out collages instead of working in paint, due to ill health.…
In the year 1800, 13-year-old Pierre La Page never imagined he would be leaving his home (Montreal) to paddle 2,400 miles across the lakes of Cape Cod, but when his father suffers an accident it will be up to him to quit school and take his father’s brutal job as a voyager for The Northwest Company. Worried for her son’s life Pierre’s mother might never see him again because of the brutal waters, crashing waves, and lack of food and water, Pierre’s courage will keep on pushing him to make his father proud and help his mother and father survive the upcoming winter. Pierre thought his life was going to be easy, but this is one challenge that he never could accomplish. On the first day of the long voyage a burst of courage…
Henri Matisse was a revolutionary and influential artist of the early 20th century, best known for his expressive color and form of his Fauvist style. Henri Matisse was born December 31, 1869, in Le Cateau in northern France. During a 6 decade career, he worked in all media, from painting to sculpture to printmaking. Although his subjects were traditional—nudes, figures in landscapes, portraits, interior views—his revolutionary use of brilliant color and exaggerated form to express emotion made him one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Henri Matisse was raised in the small town of Bohain-en-Vermandois, in northern France.…
History traces its roots back to 700 BC. Historically, dentists were not a profession. Back in the early 16, 17 and 18th centuries, there were a lot of famous dentists. One of them was Pierre Fauchard. Pierre was an important modern dentist in history.…
Eugéne Delacroix was born on April 26 in Charenton, France in the year of 1798. He lived for 65 years before he died on August 13, 1863. He didn’t grow up with a lot of money and his painting career never paid him a well enough. He also tended to try and push the boundaries in some of his paintings, more so in his religious pieces.…
Representative and Senator, Robert M. La Follette Sr., a Republican representing Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional district and later the leader of Progressive party, was an excellent Congressman because he was an effective speaker, helped pass various reform laws and fought political corruption. La Folletes’s election to the Senate was a significant one, mainly because he was not influenced by ulterior economic motives. Within the first three years, La Follete helped pass laws in opposition to the freight rates, and financing practices of railroads. In this way, he represented his constituents, the Wisconsin farmers, who were often affected by the railroad actions and rates. La Follette also fervently advocated for various other progressive reforms, particularity social security, women’s suffrage…
One could look to Vincent Van Gogh; whose works became no more extraordinary after his death, but his tragic story assisted in him to become a household name. The history of the artist surpassed that of his paintings, causing the painting to become famous in turn. This statement will be further argued and shown utilizing the works of Kazimir Malevich and Rembrandt Van Rijn. Each of these men…
Georges Pierre Seurat was born on December 2, 1859 in Paris, France. Seurat was the son of Antoine-Chrysostome and Marie-Berthe Seurat and was one of three children. It is known that in his early life, he showed a great interest in drawing. The first art lessons that he attended were with his uncle, but eventually he began working with some more advanced artists such as Justin Lequien and Henri Lehmann. In 1878, he attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.…
Over a long period, Monet learned many painting skills. However, his parents didn’t concur with this. With the gift he got when he was born and his practices, a few years later, his comics began to exhibition…
“The Church at Auvers” which was painted in 1890 is one of the most famous paintings he had done, it is now hanging in Musee d’Orsay, a museum in Paris, France on the left bank of the Seine. In 1890 he painted “Sorrowing Old Man” which shows a man sitting at eternity’s gate. He painted this one in Saint-Remy de Provence. “Sunset at Montmajor” was painted in July 1888, it is a landscape of garrigue with Montmajour Abbey in the background. Montmajour Abbey was a building that was built in the 10th and 18th centuries.…
Henri Rousseau was a French post impressionist painter. He was given the nickname Le Douanier due to a job that he had during 1871-1983, he was working at the Paris Customs office. Rousseau was serving his country during his time in the Army prior to his artistic career. In 1893 he had retired, and decided to focus on painting and making it his number one priority. By giving his full attention to painting he was opening up new doors to the artistic world.…
Daniel Salazar Professor Calabrese Composition 1 26 October 2016 Informative essay Throughout history there have been many events that people have taken part of that has landed them a spot in the history books. All of these people were able to acquire there spot in history because of either something beneficial that they did like JKF, Martin Luther King Jr, and Winston Churchill or for something that caused a lot pain and suffering. The best people are the people that served their country and defended their human rights. A prime example of this is Charles de Gaulle who through his life he was able to help out his country through many roles from being a lieutenant in WW1 to being the president of France.…
According to McNeese & Picasso, Pablo Picasso is known as an influential artist and painter, also his work became more popular and recognized in the 20th century as it was the peek of his career. Picasso was born in Spain in a town known as Malaga in October 1881. He was the first born child and his father was an artist, a museum curator, as well as a professor of fine arts at the time. Pablo Picasso was taught fine arts by his father for a year before he proceeded to an Art Academy for another year. He later moved to Paris in 1901 as a preferred destination to practice and learn new styles and art forms.…
Paul Gauguin was a prominent figure for the French avant-garde. His career was teeming with work that was much different to the previous Impressionists. His Post-Impressionist art showed new explorations of color. These discoveries had vast reviews from art critics– mainly after his passing in May of 1903. Gauguin studied and practiced numerous techniques during his investigations.…
The reading, Paul Gaugin and the Invention of Primitivist Modernism by Abigail Solomon-Godeau shows the myth of Gauguin, as an artists who pursue a “primitive state.” In 1883, at the age of 35, Gauguin decided to break with his bourgeois life, and become a full time artist. In 1886, he travel to Breton in order to find a different atmosphere from the civilized society in what he considered was a country with archaic customs. For the first time he presented himself as a “savage” who wanted to return to a primitive art. I found very interesting the way Gauguin did a construction of a “Bretonism,” by emphasizing certain aspect of Breton’s culture.…