Claude Debussy

Abstract art is also known as non objective art or non representational art, painting, sculpture or graphic art in which the portrayal of things from the visible world plays no part. Abstraction was one of the mostsignificant developments in the story of 20th century arts. It consists largely of elements like form, color, line, tone and texture. It has its origin in 19th century. The period characterized by so vast a body of elaborately representational art produced for the sake of illustrating…

Paul Klee was born in Switzerland on December 18, 1879 he died in June 29, 1940. Klee style was influenced by surrealism, cubism and expressionism. He was a good violinist but as a teenager turned his attention from music into visual arts. In 1898 he went to the Academy of fine arts in Munich. On 1905 he developed his own signature techniques like drawing with a needle on a blackened pane of glass. Later on between 1903 and 1905, he did a set of etchings called Inventions that would be his first…

Claude Monet’s early life was filled with a restless desire to find himself. At only the age of 16 years old, he lost his mother. His father worked unsuccessfully and Claude struggled for money. In an effort to find himself and to help his family with money, Monet began to sell his caricature drawings at a local shop owned by a man named Eugene Boudin. Boudin was a driving force for Monet and introduced the young boy to sketching the outside world. (“Monet: The Impressionists, with Tim Marlow,”…

Between the “Portrait of a Rabbi” and “Juno” the “Portrait of a Rabbi” looks to be the least finished of the two. There are aspects of both paintings that has caused some to claim that they are unfinished works. However, both works are completed works by Rembrandt. “Portrait of a Rabbi” demonstrates simple use of lines and economical use of paint. There are parts of his clothes in the bottom left corner that are indistinguishable and are made from a few brushstrokes. Rembrandt has used brush…

The article, Triple-Self Portrait, illustrated by Charles Rosen and Henri Zerner is a descriptive process of a self-painting constructed by Norman Rockwell. The portrait is claimed to be a clever and witty comment on the artist’s own art. The artist has three pictures into one. The three pictures that are tacked on the top left on the canvas, the black-and-white drawing of Rockwell’s face, and the picture that represents him working from the back. Is it realism or something that can be called a…

Starting in the 1860s, the French Impressionism period was sparked by famous artists. Alfred Sisley, an original creator of French Impressionism, debuted with creating landscapes around the Argenteuil area. During the last two productive years of Alfred Sisley’s career, he began to paint paintings of the different environments of moret-sur-loing. Alfred Sisley’s A Turn of the River Loing uses natural colors, the circle of confusion technique, and detailed brushstrokes to create a realistic…

detail. Artists were concerned with the fine finishing and details of the subjects they painted. Salons had conservative juries who screened and approved artwork that could be displayed for the public. In Paris, artists like Édouard Manet and Claude Monet would begin to challenge the status quo of art during the1860s and 1870s. They influenced art in a movement that would be called impressionism. Impressionist wanted to capture the changes in the atmosphere, the passing of time and changes…

Claude Monet, a french painter, painted the Church at Varengeville, Grey Weather, in the year 1882, in the midst of his artistic career. Varengeville-sur-Mer is a small commune in the Seine-Maritime of the north-western region in France. The painting is oil paint on a modest sized canvas about 25 by 32 inches. This oil landscape hangs directly on the wall, at a horizontal orientation, and is in a simple ornate frame. Monet’s painting is currently located at the Speed Art Museum, in Louisville,…

Introduction: Piet Mondrian is very famous artist from the 20th century, he was born in the Netherlands on March 7, 1872. Mondrian had some great influences at a very young age to introduce him to the world of art, his father and his uncle Fritz Mondrian. One of Mondrian favorites spot to draw was along the Gein River when he was growing up. Before he became famous for his works of art he was a teacher in primary education and while he was in his teaching years he practiced his painting,…

Claude McKay was a Jamaican – American writer and poet who had a big impact in the Harlem Renaissance. He was the youngest child of the Thomas Francis Mackay and Ann Elizabeth Edwards who were well off farmers who had enough land to be able to vote. When Claude McKay was four years of he started attending basic schooling at a church that he went to. However when he turned seven he…