Neo-impressionism

Maximilien Luce was a impressionistic painter and anarchist from Paris. He was known as a French neo-impressionist artist. Neo-impressionism is defined as a late 19th century movement in French painting. He was very well-known for his paintings, engravings, and graphic art. Maximilien focused on painting, rather than engraving or graphic art. He began as an impressionistic painter, then went on to pointilism, then back to impressionism. Maximilien Luce is praised for the magnificent pieces of art he has created. The following will describe many aspects of Maximilien Luce’s life. Maximilien was born on March 3, 1858 in Paris, France. He was born into a poor family. During his childhood he worked with multiple artisans. At the age of thirteen he witnessed the massacres carried out by the French government against the Paris Commune of 1871. A year later he started to work for his survival, in 1872, at the age of fourteen he became the assistant wood-engraver at…

Every person has heard of the term impressionism, but not everyone knows about impressionism and its important aspects. It gained its name in 1874, but the techniques used was used as early as the 1860s. What is impressionism, though? Impressionism is the idea that focuses around how light in nature falls onto surfaces. Many people say that impressionism is about the present. The use of various light sources help to show this. This art movement started in France, and included famous painters…

their leisure time on La Grande Jatte. Seurat was a Neo-Impressionist artist, who was fascinated with the scientific representation of optical light and color. His use of divisionism and pointillism is an application of scientific painting technique to the popular subject matter of leisure time of middle class people. Ernst, on the other hand, was a Dada artist, embracing new techniques and art forms, combining the idea of readymade and…

a group of four other German artists and formed Die Brücke, which was one of the most organized groups (The art story foundation, 2016). Ernst Kirchner was the author of the manifesto and wrote “He who renders his inner convictions as he knows he must, and does so with spontaneity and sincerity, is one of us” (arthistory.net). Their mission was to establish this movement and challenge the artistic style of that period which was impressionism and post-impressionism (The art story foundation,…

Style Goya was a Romantic painter; these unique artists aimed to break free from traditional rules and selected their own subjects. Romantic painters were independent of the social order and distinguished themselves from European culture as Goya did. These artists including Goya set out to grasp the moment of tragedy and combat. Goya excelled in the late Baroque and Rococo styles in his youth, but never entirely incorporated the influence of Neo-Classicism, (attributed from the influence of…

bold and arbitrary colours and the experimentation of flattened perspectives; Van Gogh challenged the exploration of materiality and functionality of art, thus pre-empted Modernism. Van Gogh, having started producing art at 27 years old, spent the last decade of his life creating over 900 paintings and numerous sketches. Largely self-taught, he gained his start as an artist by “copying prints and studying nineteenth-century drawing manuals and lesson books” (The Met, 2004). His body of work can…

It’s safe to say that Gustave Caillebote’s “Paris Street, Rainy Day” is one of the most easy recognisable paintings of the 19th Century France. The large oil painting is certainly interesting as Gustave tends to show a more pessimistic view on Paris breaking the pattern that the Impressionists have put into place, a pattern that Gustave seems to enjoy breaking. Instead of painting with a loose brush Gustave chooses to go with smaller and much more delicate work which might be mistaken for…

Paul Gauguin is an artist whose usage of colors allows the viewers to experience dramatic changes. Unrealistic and implausible as colors may seem, he simply painted the colors reflected in his eyes, something that had been his philosophy of life. Gauguin was a leading French Post-Impressionist, who was not well appreciated until after his death. He was a pioneer in the Symbolist art movement of the early 1900s in France. Fauvism and Expressionism are advanced stages that were set from Gauguin’s…

young native women celebrates ‘the restoration of male political authority and sexual prerogative’, thus one could argue that the patriarchal notions of gender inextricable from metropolitan life had insinuated themselves into Gauguin’s work. Vincent Van Gogh came to Paris in 1886, beginning a two year period in which the artist’s skill would truly flourish. Having previously struggled as a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Van Gogh embraced the freedom of Impressionist Paris,…

styled after numerous predecessors, ranging from the Romantic, Eugène Delacroix to the Neo-Classical artist, Jean Baptiste-Camille Corot. Although some techniques could be found in other artist’s work, the Impressionist painters were famously known for using all of them. These painters were notorious for constructing their pieces out in the open air and on site in contrast to the other artists who worked exclusively in a studio. This was especially possible because of the advances with paint and…