Claude McKay

In the piece “Autorretrato en el taller (Self-portrait in the Studio)” by Francisco de Goya, the artist depicts himself in a Romantic style of painting. The lighting is hazing and alludes to being naturally lit, due to it coming in from the window. It continues to call attention to the illusion of painting by the brush strokes being visible on the canvas. This incites the idea of self awareness of the artist and understanding that a painting is not a reflection of real life but an artifice. The…

Kate Keating #3 Ms. McCully English 12/13/14 Esmeralda vs. Lucie Manette Have you ever felt bad for a person that is made fun of just for being different? Esmeralda felt bad for Quasimodo in Hunch Back Of Notre Dame. Quasimodo was the same as everyone else, but people treated him like he was dirt just because he looked different and didn’t look like how the world expects us too. People thought Quasimodo had an ugly face and a hump on his back. They crowned him “king of fools”. When he snuck…

Claire de Lune is a 20th century piece by Claude Debussy. It was written in 1860 but was not published until 1905. The piece got its title and was based off of the French poem by Paul Verlaine. The piece was a part of the Suite bergamaque, the most famous suites by Debussy. The suite consisted of four movements: Prelude, Menuet, Clair de lune, and Passepied. Clair de lune was presumed the most famous movement in the suite. Time Stamp Event Significance 0:05 No rhythmic pattern is noticed.…

Vision is an important sense, and is even more vital for artists who rely on it for their livelihood. One such artist that suffered from visual impairments was Claude Monet. In 1912, he was diagnosed with bilateral cataracts (Marmor & Ravin 1997, p. 170). Cataracts cloud several aspects of vision like form and color, and can affect the development of artistic style (Goldstein 2007, p. 553). To test such a link with the scientific method would require an experiment within groups of participating…

Konstantin Dimopoulos’ “The Blue Trees” is what is known as environmental art. Like “land art” or “earthworks”, environmental art makes use of nature to create nondestructive art. “The Blue Trees” is at first a little underwhelming, after all, at its core it is literally just a tree painted blue. But as I have come to understand, it is actually an ongoing project with an important message. The formal elements of “The Blue Trees” did not seem to be too complex. The color used to paint the trees…

I chose to review a painting for my art review. I went to the Baltimore Museum of Art on October 1. I chose to focus on two pieces of art by Claude Monet in the Modern Art wing. The Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight effect with Smoke, 1903, and Charing Cross Bridge, Reflections on Thames, 1901. Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight effect with Smoke depicts a misty, blueish scene of a vague bridge in the background and billows of smoke rising over the peaceful water during what appears to be early morning or late…

Born in 1867, Pierre Bonnard was a French artist with a unique style that flourished from his interactions with some of the most influential artists of the time. Bonnard developed as an artist during the Post Impressionist movement (1886-1905), which influenced his aesthetic in painting and printmaking. His painting, After the Shower, completed in 1914, is currently exhibited in the Philadelphia Museum of Art as part of their Modern Exhibition. This composition was completed shortly after the…

The extensive collection of impressionist paintings and post-impressionists, the largest outside of the Louvre in Paris. It is so powerful, it could stay there for hours. It is located between the presentations more significant of the paintings and sculptures European. It is including more than 3,500 works from the twelfth century until the twentieth century A sunday afternoon on the island of la Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat is the most famous piece in the collection of the Art Institute…

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. 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 in the…

cultural context behind the creation of iconic works of art, we can move towards a more authentic understanding of the aesthetic traditions behind the creation of a work of art. It is through this educational approach that the work of Claude Monet is best viewed. Claude Monet is undoubtedly one of the most familiar and best loved of all Western artists. ‘His images of poppy fields, popular-trees, waterlilies and elegant ladies in blossoming gardens are familiar to people who have never seen the…