George Seurat Research Paper

While the painters after the Impressionism period were collectively called the “Post-Impressionists,” the label is quite reductive. Each artist had their own unique style, from Seurat’s pointillism to Signac’s mosaic-like divisionism, Cezanne, Émile Bernard, and others. These artists were all connected in that they were reacting to the aesthetics of Impressionism. Two of the more influential painters from this movement were Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, who aimed to connect with viewers on a deeper level by access Nature’s mystery and meaning beyond its superficial, observable level. However, each artist’s approach to achieving this goal was different. In close examination of Vincent van Gogh’s Self-Portrait (Dedicated to Paul Gauguin) and Paul Gauguin’s Self-Portrait with Portrait of Émile Bernard (Les misérables), one may clearly see the two artists’ contrasting styles on display.

By the time he was seventeen, Monet was already making money from his work and had won a local reputation as a caricaturist. Skillful and amusing, his caricatures were displayed in the window of a local frame maker, Monsieur Gravier, where they drew crowds of appreciative viewers. Gravier also displayed paintings by the landscape painter Eugene Boudin, who was an old friend of his. Monet's development of friendship and informal tutelage of Boudin proved to be formative for Monet's future direction as a landscape painter. (Gordon, 38)

Dr Herbert Vere Evatt was born on the 30th of April 1894 in East Maitland, NSW to parents publican John Evatt and his wife Jeanie Evatt. “Bert” as he was nicknamed, was the fifth of eight sons. John, Bert’s father died when Herbert was seven leaving him to play a major role in the upbringing of his three younger brothers. Evatt attended Fort Street High School, Sydney as a boy, and then in future he attended the University of Sydney.”Dr. Evatt” as he was now known graduated in 1917 and was admitted to the ABA where he obtained Law degree in 1924.

Williamson County, Texas, Pickett was a descendant of American Indians and black slaves. He was the second born out of the thirteen siblings he had. Pickett was a well known rodeo star and the first black cowboy movie star.

It was learned that former NBA center Samuel Dalembert got into handcuffs lately. He has taken a mugshot lately courtesy of the Palm Beach Sheriff's office. On Sunday, he was arrested for battery charges after hitting his girlfriend. Not only that he hits his girlfriend, but her cousin as well. After a 911 call at Dalembert's home, the woman and cousin told them that there's nothing wrong with them and Dalembert. However, the 7-foot 240-pound NBA basketball player was completely upset. You know why? It's because he already found out that his girlfriend and two kids are leaving for Orlando. As a result, he pushed away his girlfriend as what the cousin told the police. Not only that, the cousin claimed to be choked by Dalembert during intervention. For two counts of battery, Samuel Dalembert was arrested by the police at their home. However, he was released after his arrest.

Shortly after he painted his self-portrait at age 23, Rembrandt moved to Amsterdam in 1631, where he first began officially working as a professional portraitist. By that time, he had begun to gain recognition and stardom for his world-class portraits. Rembrandt was living in the house of Hendrick van Uylenburgh, a Dutch art dealer, who introduced Rembrandt to his cousin, Saskia van Uylenburgh, whom Rembrandt married in 1634. This relationship only further progressed his career, bringing him in contact with rich patrons awaiting to commission portraits of themselves and their families.9

Jean-Michel Basquiat was born on December 22, 1960, in Brooklyn, New York. His mother was a Puerto Rican, and his father was a Haitian immigrant, the combination of both eventually led Jean-Michel's into learning creole, Spanish, and English. At an early age, Jean-Michel decided he wanted to be a cartoonist and so his mother took him to a art museums in order to stimulate his imagination. He showed a precocious talent for drawing, and his mother enrolled him as a Junior Member of the Brooklyn Museum when he was six. At the age of eight, he was extremely injured in a car accident and was hospitalized for a month. He broke his arm, suffered multiple internal injuries and underwent a splenectomy. His mother brought him a copy of his Grey’s

The idea of a man of the community is someone who is shaped by the ideals and values of said community but is the man shaped by the community or is the community shaped by the man? Someone who in my knowledge best fits the idea of a man of the community is also a man who I call father, however most people call him Robert Dimmitt. Robert has many roles in the community the first of which started when he was a student at Springboro high school in Ohio where he did volunteer work outside of school and worked as a part of the maintenance crew for the community. Furthermore he went on to work as a manager at AK steel headquarters which is a large provider of jobs in the local area. Robert also does volunteer work as a part

George Rodrigue is the artist I chose to research on because of his very bland unique of art work. George Rodrigue was born in the city of New Iberia on March 13, 1944- December 14, 2013. Mr.Rodrigue attended an all-male high school named Brothers of the Christian Schools. He started painting small landscape portraits and gradually increased to family gatherings. He studied art at University of Southwestern Louisiana which is known to us today as University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

in the year of 1785. He had studied art with Edward Savage in New York from 1800-

The second act focuses on Seurat’s descendent, and his focus on being a successful artist. This new George has both the same and opposite problem

Many people have dreamed of climbing the tallest mountain on earth, Mount Everest. However one must possess certain physical and mental attributes to accomplish this giant feat. “Courage is not having the strength to go on: it's going on when you don't have the strength.” Ed Viesturs knows first-hand what having courage is all about although you’ve used all your strength. He kept going to reach his goal even after he faced life threatening obstacles.

Georges Bizet – born 178 years ago on this day, October 25, 2016 – is primarily known for Carmen, the immensely successful opera that scandalized Paris audiences of the day. Although it is arguably one of the most famous operas of all time, Bizet did not live to see it achieve recognition. In fact, his life mostly consisted of a series of struggles, false starts, and failures. Despite this, Bizet’s death had a strong emotional impact on those he left behind, and his work had a significant impact on the music world.

1905 - Henri along with a group of artist known as "Fauves" exhibited together at the Salon d'Automne.

With Leon Bakst he saw the reproductions of Fauve canvases, the sketches of Van Gogh and of Cezzanne his ambition to go to Paris was