Norman Vincent Peale

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…

The colours used by artists in these two eras differed greatly. Art nouveau artists tended to use earthy and natural colours such as mustard yellow, shades of green, orange and brown. Pop artists used much bolder colours, in particular bright yellows, blues and reds. Ben day dots were also popular in pop art. Ben day dots (named after the printer Benjamin Henry Day Jr) are a method of using dots to add colour or shade to a picture and was developed in 1879. These became a trademark of the…

Vincent Van Gogh His Style A pointillism is a form of painting in which tiny dots of primary-colours are used to generate secondary colours. It is an offshoot of Impressionism and is usually categorized as a form of Post-Impressionism. It is very similar to Divisionism, except that where Divisionism is concerned with colour theory, Pointillism is more focused on the specific style of brushwork used to apply the paint. The term "Post-Impressionism" was invented by the English painter and…

2 February 2016 Nocturne An Analysis of The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh “This morning I saw the countryside from my window a long time before sunrise, with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big,” wrote Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo. Fascinated by oil and water brush style painting, and brooding in a slow gloom of the mind, van Gogh remains the most well known impressionist artist around the world. Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night has risen now to the peak of…

Beatrix Potter was born on July 28, 1866 in London, England. Her parents, Rupert and Helen Potter both possessed some artistic interest. Her father devoted himself to photography and art even though he was educated to be a lawyer. Her mother was very accomplished in water colors and embroidery. Her family was wealthy and famous artists and writers came to the house to visit. Beatrix was able to meet many of them. Six years later, Beatrix’s brother, Bertram was born. Every summer the…

During the 19th and 20th centuries, there were various distinct art movements in Europe. During the 1870s, the impressionist art movement came to life. Artists such as Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Gustave Caillebotte were all part of this movement. Following, was the expressionist art movement which took place during the beginning of the 1900s. This was a time of emotional and spiritual vision of the world through paintings. Toward the end of the era came cubism, also around the early 1900s.…

Tooba Malik Les Orangers ART 01, Art Appreciation 24 October 2017 Les Orangers The Orange Trees a painting by French impressionist Gustave Caillebotte is part of a collection donated to the museum Of fine arts, Houston. The picture portrays a daytime scene; this canvas was painted in Yerres in 1878. The person sitting in the shade of the orange trees with his back towards the viewer is Caillebotte sibling Martial and standing at one of the garden planters is his cousin Zoé, you can see them…

Though there were many styles of art presented in the lecture this week, the ones that fascinated me the most were realism, impressionism and post-impressionism. Interestingly, all three of these styles have their own way of illuminating the viewer/audience. While realism captures people and events of their own time, impressionism captures effects of light, fleeting moments of color. Post-impressionism, on the other hand, expresses emotions through quality of formal element such as color, line,…

Clement Greenberg and Michael Fried both are working out of the modernist perspective in the 1950’s and 1960’s. This perspective is a framework that describes how art could be understood during this time period. Modernist art in both Greenberg and Fried’s perspectives appeals to the concept of medium specificity, how this ends up affecting the pictorial space and in the end the meaning of the work as understood by the artist/viewer. In this writing a discussion on the relevant aspects of this…

Vincent van Gogh, who is amongst the most famous Post-Impressionist artists, who paintings are exceptionally unique. One characteristic that made Van Gogh’s art unique was his dramatic, yet expressive personal style he added on to his work. Van Gogh was an art dealer, teacher, and evangelist before he decided to pursue being an artist. When Van Gogh moved to Paris, it led to him gaining exposure to the Parisian avant-garde. From there, Van Gogh tailored Seurat’s pointillism, by applying…