George-Pierre Seurat was born on Decemeber 2, 1859 in Paris, France. He was the son of Chrysostom-Antoine Seurat and Ernestine Faivre. He was the youngest of 3 children. His father was a bailiff and a native of Champagne and his mother was Parisian. They were middle-class. The family relocated temporily to Fontainebleau in 1870, while the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune rebellion. When Seurat was a little boy he began to take interest in art and was encouraged by his uncle, Paul Haumonte, who is a textile dealer and amateur painter. ("The Art Story.org - Your Guide to Modern Art")
When Seurat was fifthteen, he entered a local drawing school then three years later he went to Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris from 1878-1879 to study art.
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Although Seurat chose common Impressionist subjects such as popular entertainment, he adopted traditional techniques of preparation and painting.” (Wallis 52) During 1884-86 Seurat was working on his second large piece of artwork “A Sunday …show more content…
“Most artists that was Post-Impressionists didn’t think of themselves as Post-Impressionists. The name was given to them by an English artist and critic Roger Fry in 1910.” (Bolton 4) Some examples of Post Impressionist artists are Vincent Van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Paul Cezanne, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Camille Pissarro.
Most Post-Impressionists worked in Paris. “Paris was considered to be the art capital of the world at that time. There was an intense concentration of artistic activity and art dealers in the city, and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and academie Jlian were key schools where many artists were taught.” (Bolton 9) When he was alive he was a known artist but after he died he became famous. Some of his paintings was “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”, “Bathers at Asnieres”, and “The Lighthouse at Honfleur.” But his most famous one is “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande
Jean-Michel Basquiat known as the famous artist Basquiat was Born On December 22nd, 1960 in Brooklyn, New york, Basquiat, who eventually became a famous artist . Basquiat was the son of Puerto Rican and Haitian parents, Matilda Andrades and Gerard Basquiat. Basquiat was the second child out of four siblings Max Basquiat, Jean-michel Basquiat, lisane Basquiat , and jeanine basquiat. However, shortly before Jean Michel Basquiat was born , his older brother Max Basquiat had died. When Basquiat was little he always loved to draw. On one incident Basquiat; who was a self taught artist,
It wasn’t until 1822 that his family allowed him to study the arts. They let him work under Alexander Lenoir, an artist and architect, that introduced him to some of the classic sculptors and artists like Titian and Rubens. He was pushed in a healthy direction by Lenoir, and soon began formal study at the Academie Suisse.
During Jacques teen years he didn't really have an interest in photos anymore so he took up another one of his passions,painting.Jacques went to the Academie Julian in Paris from 1915 to 1916, He always
Jean-Michel Basquiat was a writer, performer, and graffiti wonder in late-1970s New York, he had sharpened his mark painting style of over the top jotting, slippery images and charts, and cover and-skull symbolism when he was 20. Basquiat drew his subjects from his own particular Caribbean legacy. His dad was Haitian and his mom of Puerto Rican drop and a joining of African-American, African, and Aztec social histories with Classical topics and contemporary legends like competitors and artists. Frequently connected with Neo-expressionism, Basquiat got huge praise in just a couple short years, indicating close by craftsmen like Julian Schnabel, David Salle, and Francesco Clemente. In 1983, he met Andy Warhol, who might come to be a coach and icon. The two worked together on a progression of sketches before Warhol's demise in 1987, trailed by Basquiat's own particular inauspicious passing a year later (ARTSY, Web).
In addition to the influences in Edouard’s life from Spanish and Dutch artists, The Louvre and Renaissance painters inspired him. Courbet, Goya and Velázquez had major impacted in Manet’s artistry. Early in Edouard’s life, many days were spent studying and copying artwork at The Louvre. Elements of Renaissance compositions were combined with Manet’s own realism. Courbet influenced Manet with choice of subject matters and the styles in which he portrayed them.
After his birth on December 2, 1859, in Paris, France, his father was a customs official, he was not at home that often which led Seurat, his brother and his sister to grow up with their mother Faivre. He learned arts in his early age from an uncle and started formal education at the age of 16 from a local art school.
Less than a decade after the French Revolution of 1789, Corot was born in Paris, France. His father, Louis Jacques Corot was a successful cloth merchant and his mother, Marie Françoise Oberson Corot, ran a thriving millinery business, their money caused Corot to be able to establish a career in art. At first, his father wanted him to follow in his footsteps, so he sent Jean to apprentice a Parisian draper. For 7 years, he learned about color harmonies and made many
Paul Gauguin was a French artist who helped perfect a type of painting. First of all, Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin was born 1845 in Paris, France. When Paul was a young child his family moved to Peru. Paul later got jobs on a cargo ship, in the French navy, and as a merchant. He later married a Danish woman named Motte-Sophie Gad and had children. Next, Paul began painting as a hobby. Paul started painting as a hobby then became serious about it. He quit his job as a stockbroker and moved away from his family to pursue his dream. Paul was invited to showcase a painting in the Impressionist’s fourth exhibition. Last, Paul had a different type of style than other paintings. Paul used flat colors and exotic landscapes for his paintings like Tahiti.
During an era where the American art scene carried out a delimiting appraisal of African American artist in the mainstream media, Jean-Michel Basquiat comes into sight. The late 1870s New York City street art scene becomes the venue for Basquiat’s appearance as “SAMO”. His work is synonymous with the market booms of the 1980s, and during this time he grew into one of the most influential artist of the occurring international movement that was ultimately ruled by figurative painting. The "untrained" quality of his painterly work reflects the intense, conceptual nature of his paintings, although, to some, the roughness of Basquiat’s high-art style might not seem sophisticated. In contrast, Basquiat’s work offers a look into his concern for portraying a spiritual experience while at the same time achieving a balance with a poetic aspect and accompanying visual attributes. Basquiat’s aesthetic of his collage style paintings plays on the contingency of the mainstream's racial constructions. However, much repeated is the standard issue biography of his life: his multi-racial upbringing (Puerto Rican American mother, Haitian father); his quick rise to fame and his
Pierre Auguste Renoir was born February 28, 1848 to a working class family in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France. When he was young, he began working in a porcelain factory, painting designs on fine, porcelain china. Renoir also took the time to visit the Louvre and view the paintings that were displayed in the exhibits during his younger years. When Pierre was fourteen years old, Charles Gleyre became his art mentor and Renoir began studied under him. Gleyre not only taught Renoir, but he also mentored Claude Monet which led to them meeting and becoming friends. During this time, paint was not a luxury that Renoir could afford. Despite this setback, about ten years later(1874), Renoir had some of his paintings displayed in London. In 1890, Pierre joined Aline Victorine Charigot in matrimony. The couple conceived and gave birth to three children. The children seemed to have taken a liking to the film industry, considering the fact that one became an actor, and another became a filmmaker. Later on in his life, Pierre Auguste Renoir developed rheumatoid arthritis. Renoir did not stop painting even though his arthritis caused him pain and left him to be stuck in a wheelchair due to his restricted movement. Before his death, in 1919, Renoir traveled to the Louvre to see his paintings that were displayed with other
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in 1841 to a tailor and dressmaker. He attended a Christian Brother's School where he was taught the rudiments of drawing. At the age of 13 he was apprenticed to a firm of porcelain painters, Levy Freres et Compagnie, whose workshops were near the Louvre. At the same time, he took drawing lessons from the sculptor Callouette. After serving his apprenticeship as a porcelain painter, he worked for a M. Gilbert, a manufacturer of blinds. In 1860 he became a student of Charles Gleyre and enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In April, 1864 he came out 10th of 106th candidates in a sculpture and drawing examination there.
A well known artist of the 20th century is Georges Braque, born on May 13th, 1882, in Argenteuil, France.(1) Braque took after his father and grandfather in house painting.(1) He studied painting from 1897-1899 at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.(1) He took his love for artistic painting to the next level where he then moved to Paris.(1) From 1902-1904 he continued to paint at the Academie Humbert.(2) In 1910 a close fellow artist and friend Pablo Picasso introduced Braque to model Marcelle Lapre which he then later married in 1912.(2) Braque also served in the French Army during World War I and sustained wounds to the head.(3) With his failing health that prevented Braque from creating any large-scale commissioned projects he still continued with his artwork in 1917.(3)
Georges-Pierre Seurat was a French Post-Impressionist painter and draftsman. He is noted for his drawings and paintings along with his painting techniques known as; chromoluminarism and pointillism. His artistic personality involved qualities which are usually supposed to be avoided. His art piece, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, altered the direction of art by initiating Neo-impressionism, and is a symbol of late 19th-century paintings.
Georges Seurat was born on December 2, 1859 and lived until March 29, 1891. Georges Seurat studied at Ecole Municipale de Sculpture et Dessin, then in 1878 he moved went to Ecole des Beaux-Arts. After Ecole des Beaux-Arts, he went to a conventional training academy. He left Ecole des Beaux-Arts in November of 1879 to go into the military. After his service, he came back to Paris and shared a studio with Aman-Jean. He then had a relationship with Madeleine Knobloch, who he often had in his paintings. On February 16, 1890, he had his son. On March 29, 1891, Georges passed away from meningitis, pneumonia, infectious angina, and diphtheria. His son passed away from the same disease two weeks after Georges. During the death of Seurat, his wife was pregnant again, but lost the child after birth. Seurat took a scientific approach when it came to painting and used to color theorists’ notion. He used color to create harmony and emotion in his paintings.
The three paintings that I chose from the 19th-century Impressionist are the self-portraits of Pierre Auguste Renoir, and Claude Monet reading a newspaper, and Camille Pissarro's Boulevard Montmartre. The Post-Impressionist paintings that I chose are A Lion Devouring its Prey by Henri Rousseau, In the Oise Valley by Paul Cezanne, and The Yellow Books by Vincent Van Gogh. The way that the first three pieces of art fall into the 19th-century Impressionist is that the some of the characteristics of their paintings were that they involved a slightly small, thin, but noticeable brush strokes. Moreover, they emphasize the depiction of light in its dynamic qualities, to accentuate the effects of the passage of time. The colors when employed were