Introduction
John Singer Sargent and Edouard Manet were vastly different artists. Sargent preferred to paint in watercolor and he is best known for his realistic landscape paintings and portraits. One of his most famous watercolor landscapes is The Bridge of Sighs which depicts a street in Venice, Italy. Manet, on the other hand, preferred oil and often painted people. He is also famous for many works, including several with nude figures such as Le Déjeuner sur L’herbe (The Luncheon on the Grass) or Olympia. The Bridge of Sighs and The Luncheon on the Grass are interesting to compare since both artists were famous painters. Each of the works was received differently when first created, one causing a great controversy while the other was positively received.
John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent was born on January 12th, 1856, to American parents FitzWilliam and Mary. After the tragic loss of their two-year-old daughter, the couple had traveled abroad, so young John was born in Italy. His parents were never really involved with society during his life, and they spent most of their time traveling abroad. As a result, his formal education was largely neglected. John was a highly observant child, and often sketched pictures of ships and landscapes. At the age of 13, he received a few watercolor lessons from a German artist named Carl Welsch. He quickly became an avid painter. For years, most of his paintings were landscapes, but after some time, he began creating more and more
Turner, was born in London, England on April 23, 1775. His artistic career began when he was sent to live with his uncle in rural England due to the fact he was often sick. Turner was known as a landscape painter who brought luminance and romantic imagery to his works of art. He originally began using a realistic style when painting, which ultimately moved towards something more fluent and poetic in nature. This is why he is considered a predecessor to Impressionism.
During his ‘Dutch’ period, Van Gogh’s subject matter was primarily focused on the lifestyle of the poor and the bible (Dubecky). In his ‘French’ period, Van Gogh had begun to shift his focus to drawing nude figures and portraits. Monet, conversely, liked to paint his subject matters in series. He would paint “the same subject at different times of the day in different lights” (Brown 1536). Some series that he painted included water lilies, bridges, and haystacks. Something that Van Gogh and Monet both really took passion in is basing their art on their life experiences. They both painted their surroundings such as landscapes, seascapes, and people around them. Van Gogh would also draw still lifes of food and would paint paintings based on his emotions during his recovered bouts of mental illness.
Seurat and Monet both approach the same ideas and concepts to create too very separate and unique works that actually have a lot in common in subject matter as well as both historically and stylistically. Overall, both paintings, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat and La Grenouillère by Claude Monet, are excellent
Vincent Van Gogh is one of the most famous painters of all time. His style was post-impressionism. He was a Dutch man, born in an averaged sized town called Groot-Zundert, Netherlands. The reason he became an artist, and the thing that influenced him the most to become an artist was actually his mother. His mother was interested in nature, she did a lot of drawing and watercolors and that really influenced her son heavily and got him into art. When he was fifteen years old, his family was really struggling with their finances. Because of this, he was forced to get a job and help them provide. It ended up that his uncle owned an art dealership, so he got a job there.
He was born on April 6, 1849 in Rome, Italy. ("John William Waterhouse Biography." Artble)
He was born on October 30, 1935. He was born in Braintree, that is now Quincy, Massachusetts. At age 16 John had received a scholarship to the school where he got his education called, Harvard University. This is where he received his undergraduate degree and his masters. At age 20, John studied law in the office of John Putnam’s, a prominent lawyer. Despite of his father’s wish for John to enter into the ministry.
John William Waterhouse was born in Rome, Italy in 1849. He painted figurative and narrative pictures primarily in oil. He was interested and found inspiration in stories and legends from British literature and Classical mythology. His
Jasper Johns was an artist that came on the scene in the 1950s. Much of the work that he created led the american public away from the expression form know and towards an art movement tor from know as the cocrete. He would decpit many flags and maps and this created more distint style with the work that was being done during the period in american art history . He was also one of the lading forces to the pop from known as mimadismi even to this dau many
John Singleton Copley used a wide variety of sizes and materials. A lot of museums were interested in displaying his work because of the uniqueness. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts on July 3, 1738. His parents were Richard and Mary Singleton Copley. His parents were immigrants from Ireland.
Henri Rousseau, born in May 21, 1844, was a self-taught artist who started his artistic career when he was forty. He began his life working as a clerk, then he joined the French army after being accused of stealing money from his employer. He later moved to Paris and obtained a job working for the French Customs Office, and it was there that he began painting part-time. It was really this background of his that allowed his paintings to be original and uninfluenced by traditional painting techniques. Since he was a self-taught artist and had no significant experience with painting, he had the freedom to paint as he perceived and as he imagined. Henri Rousseau was a man who liked to exaggerate his life to make himself seem adventurous and exciting. He made up stories about his time in the military and overstated his importance in the Customs office where he worked. This was also reflected in his artwork where manipulated the painting to emphasize beauty and excitement.
Every painting is a unique experience for each individual person, therefore two of the artists that offered some of the most unique experiences where Leonardo da vinci and Michelangelo. While both of these painters are today well regarded and remembered, during their time they both had achieved such status in vastly different ways. Therefore even though these two artists lived during the same time these two are nothing alike. With their unique take on the world and events around them they were able to shape how the average person thought about the world around them.
The dominant figure that steered the course of the Abstract Expressionist movement was the infamous painter Jackson Pollock. He was born Paul Jackson Pollock in Cody, Wyoming on January 28, 1912. He was the fifth and youngest son and grew up in Arizona and California after his family left him when he was a little over one year old. Pollock's artistic journey began at the Manual Arts School in Los Angeles, California where he joined two of his brothers. From there, he went on to New York to attend the Art Students' League after being convinced by one of his brothers whom also attended the school.
time. The subject is a real female courtesan lying nude on a bed in a
The second painting, “The Campo Santo, Venice”, was done by Joseph Mallord William Turner. He was born in London on April 23, 1775. Turner was interested in painting water subjects as well as landscapes ("Biography for”). He was educated at the Royal Academy of Arts where he developed his way of expressing natural light on the paintings, thus his style is seen as impressionistic. It is said that his father has been selling Turner’s paintings at his own shop from1 to 3 shillings which may have influenced his decision to have the boy educated as a painter. Turner's artistic style best progress was during 1835-45. It is also a time during which he painted “The Campo Santo,
Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on March 30th 1853, in Zundert, The Netherlands. Van Gogh spent his teenage year’s working for a firm of art dealers; however, he did not embark upon his art career until 1880. Originally, he worked only with dark and gloomy colors, until he came across the art movements developed in Paris known as, Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism (Meier-Graefe 4). Van Gogh than included their brighter colors and unique style of painting into his very own creations. He produced more than 2,000 works, including around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches, during the last ten years of his life (Meier-Graefe 10). However, most of his best-known works were produced in his last