Claude

ones that inspire us, reflect who we are today. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is a place where I love to go and explore. My art history class helped me love art more. My favorite painting there is by an Impressionist artist named Claude Monet. His “Rouen Cathedral: The Portal (Sunlight)” has so much history and geniuses behind it. Monet made twenty-four of the same painting at different times of the day. Monet loved to paint in the moment and he went to a room each day and…

Life is not easy and is a constant struggle. Claude Mckay’s most well-known novel, The Harlem Renaissance, was the most momentous event in African American cultural life in the twentieth century. Before the Harlem Renaissance, the African Americans were not free to express themselves completely, but this movement changed that. It affected politics, music, visual arts, and social development (Wiley). This novel led him to write the poem “After the Winter”, which is a poem with an inspirational…

In Claude McKay’s “The Harlem Dancer,” his use of imagery, enjambment, and diction develop the character as a whole by appealing to the senses of the reader and highlighting the oblivion of the audience, allowing the form to unify the content of the poem. Through the use of imagery, the reader is forced to engage all senses, and therefore examine every aspect of the Harlem dancer. Although placed in somewhat of a hectic setting, with “Applauding youths”(Line 1) all around, the speaker allows us…

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.…

Impressionism began in the late 1800s in France led by a group of artists who rebelled against the standard artistic teachings of that time period. Specifically, Impressionists rejected the artificiality of painting idealized scenes in studio settings; rather, they preferred painting realistic scenarios from outside in their natural setting, emphasizing the play of light on objects and the utilization of painting techniques that suggested movement and the transitory nature of the scene (Grove).…

The Portal of Rouen Cathedral in Morning Light Claude Monet’s The Portal of Rouen Cathedral in Morning Light is one of a series of thirty paintings of the Rouen Cathedral that Monet produced from 1892-1894 (Harris, Beth, and Steven Zucker. “Monet, Rouen Cathedral Series.”). The Portal of Rouen Cathedral in Morning Light was acquired by The J. Paul Getty museum in 2001 and is on display as a part of their permanent exhibit on Impressionism in The Getty Center (“The Portal of Rouen Cathedral in…

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…

Claude Bernard is recognized as an active participant of the laboratory revolution, having discovered the milieu intérieur, or what we today refer to as homeostasis, and is also renowned for his reductionist approach to medicine and its most efficient evidence. His famous book, An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, immediately makes evident, through its title, that he emphasizes the importance of experience as a method of gathering information. Consequently, the short excerpt…

The Harlem Dancer by Claude McKay was written in 1922. It serves as a historic insight about the realities of African Americans culture that was meant to be used as a means of empowerment serving as entertainment for the white oppressors of the time. In the 1920s the music scene became a huge part of African American culture and a means of self-expression and empowerment for those in the community. With the rise of the Harlem renaissance there grew an appreciation or more so an infatuation with…

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Do you know what impressionism means? A lot of artists are Impressionists, which developed in the 1960s in Paris. It is a style of painting mainly with French artist. Impressionist painting seeks to recreate the artist’s or viewer’s observation of a scene. It characterized by outlines from small brushstrokes of different colors. In impressionist paintings, pastel colors are frequently used. One of a popular impressionist painter is Pierre-Auguste Renoir, who is best known…