Art Nouveau

Tanner Harmsen Ms. Bromley October 2, 2016 Artist Essay Paul Klee Paul Klee was a German and Swiss artist best known for his amount of art influenced by expressionism, surrealism, and cubism. Paul Klee was born in Munchenbuchsee, Switzerland, on December 18, 1879. He was involved and influenced by many artistic movements, including cubism, surrealism, and expressionism. He taught in Germany until 1933. His family then fled to Switzerland, where he died on June 29, 1940. In his early life he…

In E.B. White’s correspondence to the Children of Troy, he states the following: “A library is many things. It 's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It 's a place to go if you want to sit and think. But particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books” (“Letters to the Children of Troy”). Libraries customarily serve as providers of vast arrays of knowledge, provoking introspection and musing enabling the…

new popular urban architecture style was flourishing the cities in the United States called Art Deco. The foundation of the modern age movement started in Paris in the 1920’s. Architectures acknowledge the structures where they defined it as straight lines that followed cubic proportions. (Gebhard 4) Art Deco was represented as a combination of modernization and architect traditions. What identifies Art Deco and separates it from other building is the ornament, sculptures and the surface…

that displays this duality in their work and similar compositions are Klimt’s The Kiss and Schiele’s Death and the Maiden. Austrian painter Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was born in Vienna. Klimt was noted for the erotic quality of his highly decorative art. His style was perceived as rebellious of the traditional academic…

very gifted at a young age. He went to Vienna School of Art and Crafts on a full scholarship. The school did not care that he was from a poor home and that he was young. Klimt used his time wisely at the school and focused on agricultural painting. He earned commission on some of his painting while attended school. He wanted to be an art teacher, but soon realized he could do even bigger things. He graduated from The Vienna School of Arts and Crafts and opened up a studio with…

moved to the nearby city of Krems, to attend secondary school. Early Life Cont’d. Schiele was a strange child in the eyes of the people around him, he was a shy and reserved and did not do well in school except for sports and arts. Before joining the Academy of Fine Arts At the age of 15 Schiele’s father passed away from syphilis and he became a ward for his maternal uncle, Leopold Czihaczec, who was a railway official just like Schiele’s father. Schiele’s Uncle wanted him to follow his…

for several remaining creations within the city. Recognized as the father of “Glasgow Style” which created and inspired a new approach to architecture. Born in 1868 on June 7th, Charles Mackintosh studied art and design where he was interested in drawing programmes at the Glasgow School of Art as well as trained as an architecture under John Hutchinson, before transferring to the practise of Honeyman and Keppie. Meeting four artists within school: Herbert MacNair, Margaret and Frances…

Klimt has created some of the most iconic and controversial pieces in the art community. At the beginning of his career, Klimt stuck to his teachings and the 19th century styles of art. But he quickly tired of this. He soon changed the way artists worked in the 19th century. He was no longer interested in the styles of realism and began moving towards more abstract and intricate pieces. Art Critic, Neville Weston, attended an art show in Liverpool that highlighted Klimt’s works, “Klimt is but…

WOMEN IN ADVERTISING SINCE VICTORIAN AGES It is well known that advertising is a reflex of the culture since it has been recording all of those elements of our daily life for many years. In addition, advertising goes hand in hand with history and art as we can see in the Museum of Brands Culture and Advertising (London). All of this started in The Victorian ages. It was a new era, the 1830s, a new beginning of the industrial revolution with numbers of different innovations through the next…

Inspiration for the Thesis Topic At the middle of this semester, I decided to go back to the point, the Post-Impressionist period, where I started to be interested in Art history in the very beginning. Therefore, I would love to start again with Gustav Klimt, who lived around the same period, but had a distinctively different style in Austria. After talking to Professor Houghteling, I was inspired by the perspective offered by her. Since several well-known works of Gustav Klimt have been…