Impressionism

Edouard Manet is a revolutionary artist who changed the style of painting in the 1800 to 1900's, also considered the realism and impressionism eras of art. His work on Olympia, A Bar at the Folies-Berge, and The luncheon the Grass, paved the way to make this artist famous. Manet was born on January 23th, 1832, to a high government official. Because of this, Manet was forced into studying law. He had multiple brothers while growing up, however being that he was the first born, he was to take up…

Georges Seurat who drove him to receive the new Divisionist style. He enormously appreciated Seurat's artwork "Bathers at Asnières" (1884), and started to share Seurat's enthusiasm for new painting strategies that best in class the standards of Impressionism. Signac was focused on revolutionary legislative issues and was a tutor to more youthful vanguard craftsmen, including Henri…

realistic settings and true, contemporary feelings of the era. Makovsky’s The Russian Bride’s Attire is an excellent example due to the manner in which he interlaces neighboring styles into one piece. Through his personal Realistic approach, Impressionism from the west, and a tinge of traditional Russian folklore that is expressed in a candid manner, Makovsky succeeded in presenting truthful art of his…

piece Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, by Claude Debussy was one of the composer's most famous works and is considered a turning point in the history of music. The piece was made in the start of the twentieth century when compositional style of impressionism was first being introduced. The piece was first composed in 1894, and first performed in Paris on December 22, leaving his audience amazed and impressed by the revolution of this new music. The type of music reminded me of when I was a…

Art of the Moon exhibition explores the use of the Moon in several works of art, of different mediums, throughout different historical periods from 1490 until 1926. It covers several different distinct periods in art history including Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Gothic to give the viewer a sense…

Orpheus is an extremely gifted instrumentalist and vocalist, taught by Apollo himself, who is subsequently able to charm anyone and anything to do what he wants them to. Somewhere along the way, he falls in love with a Nymph named Eurydice. He and Eurydice live a happy, loving life until a son of Apollo tries to pursue the young nymph. In her attempt to escape, she steps on a poisonous snake, gets bitten and dies. Orpheus, still infatuated with his lover, follows Eurydice to the Underworld where…

In this essay I will discuss the ways that Vincent Van Gogh’s, The Night Cafe, 1888 was used as influence for Ernest Ludwig Kirchner’s, Street, Dresden, 1908. To prove my point I will provide visual analyzations of the pieces, some background to the artists and the art movements they were associated with, and events that happened around the time the paintings were created that affected many artists and the work they created. Vincent Van Gogh’s painting, Night Cafe, depicts a scene a cafe with…

Their soul and rhythm captivated many whites that even their Masters would make them play for them. Fredrick Douglas through his experiences wrote that Slave-owners expected them to sing while they were working. There were many variations of slave songs. There were field hollers, usually sung by themselves. Then there were work songs, it was sung by a group of slaves working together. (Digital) Slaves used singing to express their beliefs and views towards each other. Most of the slaves relied…

Debussy's Musical Impressionism "I have no hobbies...They never taught me anything but music." ––Claude Debussy. He brought an entirely new musical style into the public eye; he expressed visual phenomena by appealing to auditory senses; he stepped outside of the grasp of Romanticism, yet still followed its pathways; he paved the road for nearly all modern music to be composed after him; he altered music history. Claude Debussy was nothing if not an absolute master of the art of composition,…

The Museum Of Modern Art starts when three prominent women envision a museum devoted to contemporary art: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller(wife of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.) and two of her friends, Lillie P. Bliss and Quinn Sullivan Lillie P. Bliss is one of the leading collectors of modern art in New York. Mary Quinn Sullivan is a pioneer modern art collector. They all felt a need to challenge the traditional policies of museums and to make a foundation devoted exclusively to modern art. Abigail Greene…