Neo-impressionism

an eye, but good God, what an eye.” Post-Impressionism is a clear continuation of Impressionism whereby it borrowed many of the techniques from Impressionism but added more formalism and emotion to the works while not being as concerned with the effects of light. I would like to now compare Claude Monet's 1879 painting Vétheuil in the Fog, as an example of Impressionism, and Paul Cézanne's 1904 painting Le Château Noir, as an example of post-Impressionism, to illustrate the differences between…

Rijana Radoncic Kingsborough Community College Art 3100 Descriptive Paper November 12th 2015 Vincent Van Gough is known for his very famous oil on canvas still life landscape painting “The Starry Night”, created in 1889, which can be seen in the Museum of Modern Art. Vincent Van Gough was an expressionist painter, and “The Starry Night” is definitely an example of the expressionist time period, which was known for exaggerating aspects of the form in a painting to attract emotions rather than…

In the left hand side of James Ensor’s ‘Masks Confronting Death’, there is a faint image of a face that has been painted over: a feature that I had not noticed the first time I saw the painting. However, as I was living in Connecticut I had the opportunity to visit the Museum of Modern Art in New York City multiple times, and each time I was able to examine this piece in further detail. I had a similar experience when observing Claude Monet’s ‘Poplars’ in the Fitzwilliam Museum. In the central…

The art piece that I’ve find very intriguing is the Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet. One of my classmates shared this piece, I found myself wanting to know more about the artwork and do a little research about it. The art piece was made in the year of 1832-33 and it is hang in the Paris Salon. The medium that is being used is paint. In the painting, the three elements that the painter has included are the texture, space, and color. As for the three principles of designs, he uses…

Botticelli painted the Primavera for Lorenzo and the most annoying part about this all is that it is not the Lorenzo that comes to all of our minds at first it is his cousin Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco. The art piece itself represents the renaissance in many ways, the use of perspective, the nature used as the background, and realistic people all throughout the painting. The art piece has a lot of inner messages making it much more interesting. For me when I found out the hidden messages throughout…

Every time I begin to write an essay for Intro to Visual Arts I always go back to “Starry Night, Vincent Van Gogh’s most famous piece of art.” Even though there are many works of art that I could write this essay about I chose to write this essay over “Starry Night” because I have a great understanding of this piece of art. In many of the “Starry Night” viewer’s eyes it is a beautiful piece of work, but in Vincent van Gogh’s eyes it is his worst piece of art. Van Gogh says the painting is not…

To this day, The Starry Night still remains as an elusive work of art to art critics and students since its creation. Because Van Gogh's intentions of painting this piece were not known, critics tend to break down and analyze the painting through several different lenses. Some critics view this work as a religious piece depicting a story from the Bible. Others contend that Van Gogh was driven by the historical influences and public fascination with astronomy and astrology at the time. I, however…

omitted from art history. In 1883, Renoir painted the clearly Renaissance-inspired Reclining Nude. He then painted many nudes, vastly different than his previous works that focused on Parisian lifestyle. Overall, Renoir’s style and development of impressionism set a basis for later artists like Henri Matisse and Pablo…

from those before them to progress on. They also are influenced by their current environments that help dictate which direction they will be taking. In this small essay, the time periods of impressionism and surrealism will be used to showcase the humans ' power to create something new from the…

The artistic movement known as impressionism sought to capture events and scenes in order to convey their essence not through exact reproduction but rather through color and light. The goal was not only to reproduce the scene itself but to also reproduce the sensation and life of the scene. The impressionist style with its free and unplanned brushstrokes, bright and vivid colors, and innocent subjects soon became synonymous with modern life and art. Various individuals within the movement would…