Neoclassicism

Pablo Picasso, known as one of the world’s most influential and well-documented artists of the twentieth century. Unlike most, Picasso’s legacy as a prominent rule breaker, an inventor of forms, an innovator of styles and techniques, a master of various media, has long since been recognized the genius in modern art. Picasso is known for producing an estimated 50,000 pieces of artwork, including paintings, sculptures, ceramics, drawings, prints, and even tapestries and rugs. Yet the medium in…

Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun Throughout history there have been, and always will be, artistic groups with differing ideas and morals, which causes them to clash. The art produced by these groups offer a visual representation of their beliefs, along with other insight on the social issues of the time period they are associated with. Women’s and human rights have been some of the most prevalent issues throughout history, and continue to be today. Artists tended to create artwork that reflected…

meaning a wart and by extension an irregular shaped pearl. Eighteenth century critics were the first to apply the term to the art of the 17th century. It was not a term of praise. To the eyes of these critics, who favored the restraint and order of Neoclassicism, the works of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Francesco Borromini, and Pietro da Cortona appeared bizarre, absurd, and even diseased like an imperfect pearl. The participation…

The Humble Poets: Anne Bradstreet and William Cullen Bryant From the settling of America to its Civil War, literature changed rapidly and gave future readers an idea of the struggles throughout that time period. Poets, in particular, were excellent at capturing the emotional tone of the time and discovering new meanings around and within themselves. Anne Bradstreet—a Puritan poet that came to America with John Winthrop—and William Cullen Bryant—a Romantic poet writing in post-Revolutionary…

The dispute between Poussinists and Rubenistes, was ultimately not only about the form and style of painting, but also about the philosophical or political connotations that had risen in light of the discourse regarding neoclassicism and romanticism, which is, if simply defined, the distinction between the prevalence of reason and that of emotion. Throughout this paper, I plan to inspect the idea of artistic competition in art history, using the example of one of the largest artistic…

Knowledge: The Key Change to Theories Over Time Ashleigh Gottschalt University of Houston-Victoria A common trait of being human is that we are always seeking out an explanation for how things work, and why it works that way; there is hardly any satisfaction in not knowing the details. When individuals create their own explanations they are called theories, and there are no right or wrong theories because theories are abstract explanations of reality. An interesting feature regarding theories…

org/humanities/becoming-modern/romanticism/romanticism-in-france/v/gros-napoleon-bonaparte-visiting-the-pest-house-in-jaffa-1804 Napolean Guide (n.d.). Goya's Disasters of War. Retrieved from http://www.napoleonguide.com/goyaind.htm Palomar College (n.d.). Neoclassicism vs. Romanticism. Retrieved from http://www2.palomar.edu/users/mhudelson/StudyGuides/NeoCvsRomant_WA.html Radford University (n.d.). From Leisure to Virtue: Revivalism and the Neoclassical. Retrieved from…

Chinese landscape painting in the long process of development, the formation of a unique style and aesthetic taste and a complete theoretical system. Similarly, in the Western painting accounted for an important position of the landscape is also true. These two objects of the same performance using different forms of expression of art in the world of art treasures occupy an extremely important position. They are in two different civilizations, the aesthetic value of these two art is the precious…

Sacramento’s Crocker Art Museum is home to multiple paintings including Charles Christian Nahl And A little Child Shall Lead them and his The Love Chase . The date And A Little Child Shall Lead Them is unfortunately unknown. And A Little Child Shall Lead Them painting is approximately 3’x3’. The Love Chase is a five-part series that consists of two 6’ x 5’ and three 3’x4’ paintings. The paintings are dated in 1869. And A little Child Shall Lead Them and The Love Chase are both…

The artist I have selected is Pablo Picasso, a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. The greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, as well as the co-creator of Cubism. “Picasso devoted himself to an artistic production that contributed significantly to—and paralleled the entire development of—modern art in the 20th century.” The personal life Pablo Picasso was in his father’s footsteps…