Gustave Courbet The Stonebreakers

Ferdinand Loyen du Puigaudeau was a French Impressionist, so his paintings were created in the Impressionism movement. Impressionism is where the artists would want to capture a moment of any time a day and to focus on weather conditions. The most popular paintings from the Impressionism movement are landscapes. The artists would paint by doing light brushing strokes and use bright colors. The impressionists were the first group to embrace painting outside.

Artwork, too, was just as divergent. Consider the Rococo masterpiece The Swing, by artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard. The delicate coiling of the tree branches, the ruffling of the fabric and lace on the subject’s dress, and the play of light and shadow in this painting of a woman on a swing in the forest are all visual hallmarks of the Rococo style. Again, contrast with a Neoclassic masterpiece Oath of the Horatii by Jacques-Louis David. This work, which shows

Realism was a direct result of the social and economic changes of the 19th century in Europe. It originated in France in the after the Revolutions of 1848, which were a series of political outbreaks throughout Europe. It was around 1906, when Jonas Lie discovered the beauty of impressionism in Claude Monet’s paintings when he went on a trip to Paris while visiting Norway to reconnect with the Norwegian side of his family. He was fascinated by Monet’s use of color and light and incorporated that style in his later works. Lie’s artistic talent in mixing the two art styles is evident, as seen in his painting Dusk on Lower Broadway. (See fig 1.) The brushstrokes look like they were made quickly but with precision, creating a piece of art that looks realistic from far

“Primitivism” was a cultural attitude that arose in Europe during the late 19th and 20th century in opposition to the increasingly decadent and materialistic European culture. Rather than an artistic movement, “primitivism” is a European conception of foreign civilizations and lands as “simple”, less developed, and naive. This is an important distinction to make, because “primitivism” was defined in the eyes of the Europeans who saw foreign civilizations as unsophisticated, indicating that the concept of “primitivism” is heavily biased in the view of the Europeans. Paul Gauguin and Henri Matisse were two artists that were highly influenced by the concept of “primitivism,” and some similarity can be depicted in their works such as the use of female nudes, vivid colors, and artistic techniques. However, their definition and methods of achieving “primitivism” differ heavily, due to the fact that the vagueness of “primitivism” allows it to be a self-defined concept. These similarities and differences can be seen through the two works of art The Spirit of the Dead Watching by Paul Gauguin, and The Blue Nude by Henri Matisse, and the way they depict women in each of the pieces.

The art that I find most interesting is graffiti, because it taking the streets and filling them with personality and stories. In the following essay I will be talking about three well known graffiti artist and their art.

Survival Artist was written by Eugene Bergman. This book is very good book to learn an individual record of his Holocaust survival as a deaf person. Despite the fact that Bergman, a resigned Gallaudet educator, is a deaf author, he didn 't encounter any deaf citizens or deaf culture until his arrival into the United States after WWII. He became deaf at nine years old as the consequence of an assault by a trooper not long after Germany attacked Poland during September 1939. The Nazi trooper assaulted him with the rifle, when he woke from concussion, he couldn’t hear anything ever again. The author pointed that he was able to speaking but not very well. He was explaining that his family later hired a Jewish-German outsider speech professor to instruct the young man how to read lips despite the fact that Bergman talked just Polish and Yiddish, which were incomprehensible to the instructor due to his early age. Obviously, the lessons fizzled. All through the conflict days, the youthful Bergman just could read lips and comprehend the expressions of his more established sibling, Bronek. Meanwhile, his endurance regularly relied on upon it, Bergman turned into a shrewd observer of individuals keeping in mind the end goal to comprehend the terrible environment which was during the Holocaust. Bergman survived during WWII with his knowledge of Polish and Yiddish spoken languages. He was able to reading lips by anyone who spoke these languages but not German.

As a story that had already been told in writing and film, Baz Luhrmann’s modern film version of The Great Gatsby has a great deal to live up to. Having read the book and seen the original movie, I can knowledgeably say that Luhrmann’s version was my favorite experience of The Great Gatsby out of the three. The complexity of the diction in the book left me bored and half asleep, and the acting in the original film version left me wanting more. Although I did not fall in love with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, Luhrmann’s rendition of The Great Gatsby is as good of a representation of Fitzgerald’s story as a movie can get.

For example, the Mona Lisa is painted by the Northern Renaissance style. You could see that by looking at the highly detailed style of the figure. Mona Lisa’s face is especially detailed; it almost looks real. The artist of the Henry Clay and Theodore Roosevelt political cartoon focuses more on the background rather than on the structure of the faces. However, Leonardo de Vinci focuses more on the structure of Mona’s face instead of the background and that’s why the paining looks very simple and

This 2012 Baz Luhrmann version of The Great Gatsby comes to life with its vibrancy and party-like spectacles. Baz Luhrmann does a miraculous job of creating a mood for the story, as well as having a knack for blending its contemporary jazz with modern hip hop music to add excitement to the movie.This 2012 The Great Gatsby follows along with the plot line of the original book better than the 1974 version, which makes it easier to comprehend background information.

Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby was an extraordinary film based upon F Scott Fitzgerald's Novel illustrating what life was like for the rich and poor in the 1920’s. The Great Gatsby movie brings the novel to life for entertainment of readers who enjoyed the novel by Fitzgerald. Throughout the film illustrations shows a few differences from the book rather a difference or more in some characters, themes and settings.

The Great Gatsby directed by Baz Luhrmann, takes a slight modern spin on the original story written F. Scott Fitzgerald. Luhrmann captures the essence of the 1920’s phenomenally, while adding current day characteristics. The Great Gatsby shows brilliance and self-indulgence and the movie truly illustrated those concepts.

Courbet (1819-1877) is a realistic painter, in that a majority of his work is about everyday scenes, often depicting peasants and working people in rural areas. Howerver, Courbet is also an artist who challenged the traditional painting in the middle of the 19th century. Courbet introduced a new kind of realism, which focused on a rugged depiction of nature and people rather than an idealized and artificial one. Most paintings of the time showed wealthy people, whereas Courbet who was politically involved in socialist causes, applied his political beliefs to art. (Crapo: 240-241) Crapo writes that for Courbet “realism posed a direct challenge to the aesthetic of the academic painters. It meant the unadorned depiction of everyday scenes and

Van Gogh’s passion and contemplation of life, nature, and art is well represented in The Rocks. His delicate post—Impressionism innovation led him to the radical use of unnatural

The artist of this painting was named Vincent van Gogh and he was born on the 30th of March in 1853. He was known to be a self-taught painter of the post-impressionist style. Post-impressionism was used to describe the development of French art since Manet. Vincent van Gogh artist style was to practice the uses of bright colors, distinctive brush strokes, thick application of paint, and unwavering subject matter about the realities of life in this masterpiece. Vincent van Gogh found his place in art and produced emotional and visually attractive paintings over the course of a career that lasted about a decade.

Gustave Courbet once said, "When I die, let it be said of me: He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any regime except the regime of liberty."(The Painter’s key) We can understand from this that Courbet didn’t want to be associated with a group; he wanted artistic freedom to not be restrained in the world. This idea can be seen in his 1855 painting “The Painters Studio” where the artist situated in the middle is Gustave Courbet himself. He is neither on the left or right but centered in between groups. Karl Marx who is also from the same era, wrote the “Communist Manifesto” which explains the important points of communism and the different class struggles. In both artists work, we have a division of classes which can be described as proletariat and bourgeoisie. The first common thought most people have about these two groups is separation because of difference. In Gustave Courbet’s “The Painters studio” and Karl Marx “Communist Manifesto” we can definitely see these two sides exist .For Courbet, the analysis we do is visual; the left side is dirty and huddled together low to the ground as for the right group are proper, wearing beautiful garments and their heads are held high. Marx on the other hand is descriptive; talking about how the bourgeois started the separation of classes and the lower class are nothing more than mere objects. If we dig a little deeper in both works, we can start to see the bourgeois and proletarians