Claude Bernard

The Impressionist Movement: Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt Throughout history, art has acted as a medium of expression for many of the political and social issues that surrounded the artists. Artworks inspired new art movements, and other times it was the political and social circumstances that brought on a new range of artists and styles. The 19th century moved through many art movements, but one that dominated most of the late 19th century was Impressionism. Impressionism was an art style that…

Albert Cuyp was a Dutch painter who painted the Charming the Animals. As I walked on the second floor in the Dutch room at Yale Art Gallery in New Haven, I saw a beautiful painting hanging against the wall that quickly caught my attention. This is an landscape painting. As you see the painting, you see varieties of different animals and a guy sitting in the middle of the painting. This painting was lent by the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterlo collection. The material used for this painting is the…

III When it came to the Surrealist movement in art, the leader of that movement was more easily identifiable. It was Andre Breton, who also found fame later as a French poet. Yet when one mentioned Surrealism in art, the first name that came to the minds of most art critics and students of art history was that of Salvador Dali, not Andre Breton. This was an ironical state of affairs because Andre Breton and the Surrealists had formally expelled Salvador Dali from their art movement in 1939.…

Claude Debussy was born on August 22, 1862, in France. Debussy and his parents lived in a very poverty stricken suburb in Paris. By the age of nine, Claude’s gift of being a pianist began to show; and a female Russian millionaire, Nadezha Filaretovna von Meck, persuaded Debussy to play duets with her and her children. After accepting her offer, Claude Debussy began to travel with the woman all throughout Europe during the summer; time that he was not in school at the Conservatory. While in Paris…

The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds some of the most influential and historic art work. One famous painting, Oedipus and the Sphinx by Gustave Moreau was created in 1864. Gustave Moreau was a French painter born on April 6, 1826 and died on April 18, 1898. His painting, Oedipus and the Sphinx is 6′ 9″ x 3′ 5″ in dimension and the medium used was oil paint on canvas. His famous painting was first exhibited at the French Salon of 1864 and has became a successful piece to this day and was the…

One point in Malcolm Gladwell’s book that stood out to me was when he talked about the artist in Paris in 1860 and how they didn’t conform, which I think you shouldn’t. He quoted historian Sue Roe when she wrote, “works were expected to be microscopically accurate, properly ‘finished’ and formally framed, with proper perspective and all the familiar artistic conventions (pg. 66),” but the artists he wrote about didn’t follow those rules. His book is about underdogs but, when he wrote about…

of the Works of Claude Lorraine and Dong Qichang Landscape paintings have been created throughout the history of art, especially being honored in the Western and Chinese art traditions. Within both cultures, landscapes have been viewed as sites of beauty, sanctuaries for nature’s treasures,…

"I pledge that in the following paper, I have not represented the work of another as my own work without appropriately acknowledging the source." Paul Rodriguez In the 19th Century, France experienced some influential art movements which led to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Impressionists favored independent exhibitions, instead of government -controlled institution. Post Impressionism was the title bestowed upon the people who opposed the Impressionists. Camille Pissarro's The Goose…

By the beginning of 20th century, the effects of modernity were being increasingly felt across European cities, as people left behind provincial life in search of the opportunities afforded by the industrial revolution. In response to the changing cityscape, many artists began to look for inspiration elsewhere, often escaping to rural spaces to seek out a connection with the natural world. One such artist was André Derain, who, in July 1905, left his home and studio in Paris to travel to the…

Another similar painting done by Derain titled “Winding Road L’ Estaque” has some differences, but in many ways is similar to “The Trees”. The medium of this work is oil on canvas and is 4'2.5" feet in length by 6'4.5" feet in width. Derain went about painting this image in a way that is stylized because the objects in the image are painted in Derain’s perspective and are not naturalistic in nature. Although some of the figures are abstract, they are all representational and are recognizable.…