Realist painters

Allegory of Geometry” by Laurent de La Hyre, which was made in oil on canvas 1649. The painting is signed by La Hyre on the lower center part of the painting along with the date created. La Hyre is a French painter who was “born in Feb. 27, 1606, in Paris, France”(1) and later “died in Dec. 28, 1656, in Paris”(1). La Hyre is famous painter who is known for painting in the French Baroque style and for painting in the Classicism style. La Hyre’s “paintings reflects the influence of Vouet, Poussin, and Claude.” (2) due to his famous classicism style and sticking to paintings from historic events, but unlike Poussin he painting fantasy and mythological scenes like Rubens. Like Caravaggio, La Hyre did not “received any formal education either in a school or in a university” (3) and became talented via his father who taught La Hyre the style he preferred. La Hyre is not a first generation painter, but “he was the son of the painter Étienne de La Hire (c. 1583–1643)”(1) who followed the styles of George Lallemont and Orazio Gentileschi. La Hyre’s father was a “minor painter who was active in Poland”(5) who was a major influence on La Hyre.…

Modigliani Amedeo Modigliani was an Italian Jewish painter and sculptor who never was successful during his lifetime. He mainly worked in Paris and his main subject was portraits and full figures of humans. He is known for portraying nude women in a modern style. In Paris, he met prominent Artist’s such as Pablo Picasso and Constantin Brancusi. The movie basically covers his life in Paris, centering on his relationship with Picasso and his lover Jeanne. In this movie, Modigliani is being…

Mary McCarthy’s pretty loyal to Vasari’s portrayal of Paolo Uccello. She describes him as a solitary character incredibly focused on work; to the point that he would just shut himself away to deal with his long term perspective project. Vasari speaks similarly of Uccello, even arguing that Uccello spentso much time on his project that he “nothing but waste his time, exhaust his powers, fill his mind with difficulties” McCarthy often quotes Vasari when describing the life of Uccello. And focuses…

The Timken Museum of art holds the painting Death of the Virgin by Petrus Christus, ca 1460-65 Putnam Foundation, oil on oak, transferred to mahogany (171.1x138.4 cm). There are six different galleries the Italian gallery, the French gallery, the American gallery, the Donna Knox sefton gallery, the Special Exhibition gallery and the Icon gallery. The Italian gallery is pink and the paintings hang from the walls on pink cords. The French gallery is a mirror image of the Italian gallery. The…

Charles Baudelaire’s “The Painter of Modern Life” and G.-Albert Aurier’s “Symbolism in Painting: Paul Gauguin” are key texts in understanding the creation of modern art in France. When looking at art produced from the 19th century, art changed forms from traditional, naturalistic styles towards modern styles is clear. Baudelaire and Aurier wield their conceptions of art and beauty against the Academy and its traditional style in the two texts. The different theories established in each article…

industrialism and growing social and political tensions over inequality and European imperialism. Realist artists and writers were determined to create accurate and objective portrayals of the ordinary, observable world, with a focus on the lower classes and with a critique of the established social and political order. As the French painter Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) proclaimed: "A painter should paint only what he can see." (Gustave Courbet, n.d.) The goal was to represent figures and…

The four painters I am choosing to discuss are: Claude Monet, Georges Seurat, Pablo Picasso, and Vincent van Gogh. Claude Monet was a famous French painter born on November 14, 1840(“Claude Monet”). His painting style centered more on light and form than realism, and was called impressionism. Monet showed an interest in drawing at an early age. He drew caricatures of his teachers. Eugene Boudin introduced him to painting outdoors which contributed greatly in Monet’s work. He was known…

Robert Henri (June 24, 1865 – July 12, 1929) was an American painter and teacher. He was an organizer of the group known as "The Eight". It was an informal association of artists protesting against the restrictive exhibition of the powerful, conservative National Academy of Design. Having travelled to Paris to study at the Academie Julian, he was under the academic realist William-Adolphe Bouguereau. During this period of his life, he came to admire greatly the work of Francois Millet, and…

As society started to experience these progressions, the impression of mentality, assumptions, and feelings of the Artists can be seen through the ensuing workmanship developments and sketches made in light of the Industrial Revolution. Sentimentalism was grinding away's top in the first a large portion of the nineteenth century. Sentimental sketches were "went for inspiring viewer's feelings" with "flaring enthusiasm in each stroke of the brush". Sentimentalism started amid the mechanical…

Most people believe his work as the beginning of realist movement. The center artist is Courbet himself and a large canvas: "…places himself between the landscape he is painting and the model; she is naked -like the truth- ....to show that he is a complete painter." (Boudaille, Georges. Gustave Courbet (New York: graphic society Ltd. 1969), 65) He is the middleman between these two worlds. To his right are his friends and art lovers. We can spot Alfred Bruyas the art collector, Philosopher…