For this week discussion, I have chosen the French artist, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Henri was highly inspired by impressionist art and Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock printmaking. The Toulouse family were a high-class family which practiced inbreeding. Due to his parent being first cousins, Henri had quite a lot of health-related issues as toothaches, deformities, and even weak bones structures. During his teen years, his femurs snapped which stunted his growth overall. Despite his hard childhood, Henri took to painting and later working under Léon Bonnat and later Fernand Cormon.
Henri painted people in places he knew and in situations that were from realism. He was known to paint ladies in a loving light but as people, not as just symbols
As mentioned before, Henri Rousseau painted many jungle themed pieces. Rousseau worked to portray contemporaries between the home life and wildlife. Although Henri never travelled outside of France, the jungle theme expressed in his paintings came from experience through common visits to the city’s natural history museums and Paris zoos (Henri Rousseau Paintings). Henri Rousseau painted with such detail, symbolism, and colors, as well as making an everlasting impression on the post-impressionist movement, modern art, and artists of that period.
Times have changed in the venerated world of those devoted so greatly to the love of the lord, yet in this change has aroused a nuance of thinking of how that love should be portrayed to the masses. Many factions have been roused and felled throughout the many ages of Christianity, many holding greater disdain for their fellow believers than even that of the infidel. In all realizing that some of these paragons of virtue have no real admiration for the religion of which they stand as advocates, but that in their lust for power they use the Church as their proxy for attaining greater strength and influence.
His early paintings had an unconventional, unique, and unfinished look about them. The images were known to everyone in everyday life.
It is evident that the people in this painting are modern parisians that could be found walking down the street during this time period. Another thing that can be noted are the visual brush strokes all along the painting. During this time period it was a common practice to put in the extra time to make everything in the piece realistic and very detailed. This painting was meant to confuse the public. No one knew what it was actually about.
Claude Monet’s work has been praised for his unique use of color and form but rarely has been praised for his unique choice of subject. A. His artwork seems like regular landscapes and leisure still life but back in the traditionalist era of French art, his artwork was seen as sacrilege to the elitist artist of the time. (2) 1. Claude included un-traditonalist subjects in his paintings such as workers, farm life, industrial areas, which were all very unconventional subjects of the time.
I chose to research Leonardo da Vinci and his contribution to the arts. Leonardo was born an illegitimate son in what is now Italy in 1452. He had a good childhood despite his parentage because his father took him in and brought him up in his household. Da Vinci was the apprentice of Andrea del Verrocchio along with Pietro Perugino, who went on to teach Raphael, and Lorenzo di Credi. All of these men went on to become masters in their fields in later years. This is where Da Vinci was able to learn from others and begin to master his craft.
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur was a naturalized, French born American writer. He is mostly famous by his work “Letters from an American Farmer”. The nature of his work deals with the economic and social prospects of living in America, along with the uncertainly of being in a new land. To this he adds the national pride of belonging to a new nation and of being part of the future of such nation. He describes the principles which have been set by the American society and how it relates to the life of the average citizen. Immigration; ethnicity; individual responsibility; slavery; the new prototype of the American people: these are all recurring themes throughout Crèvecoeur’s work. One of the most important chapters in his collection
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was conceived on 29th of June 1900 at Lyon, France. He was assumed dead on July 31, 1944. He was naturally introduced to a privileged family and was the third of the five youngsters and one of the two children in the gang. In the wake of coming up short his last test of the years at the preparatory Naval Academy, Saint-Exupéry enlisted in the École des Beaux-Arts as an evaluator to study building design for 15 months, prior to dropping out again to take odd occupations and in the long run to turn into a pilot. Amid his years as a pilot, Saint-Exupéry started written work, and quite a while later, with the distribution of his novel Vol de Nuit (Night Flight), he was built up as a rising star in the scholarly world. Holy
Claude Monet was a prolific French painter who founded Impressionism in the 19th century. He strongly held onto his belief of his painting style throughout his long career and is considered to be one of the most prominent and influential painters in history. He focused on capturing the feeling or experience of a certain moment. He was intrigued by the light and color, so he explored their changes under various weather conditions at various times of day. Monet’s fascination of shifting effect of light and color directed him in the creation of Impressionism. In addition to his passion for depicting the visual impression, Claude strongly disliked the classical style of painting, which encouraged him to present the world as it is. Monet was disenchanted with the traditional academics of art; therefore, he was motivated to pioneer a new and fresh style of painting, which transformed visual arts and unleashed a path to the beginning of abstraction.
Portraits and nudes are his specialities, often observed in arresting close-up. His early work was meticulously painted, so he has sometimes been described as a `Realist' (or
Edouard Manet was unlike many other impressionist artist he chose to paint what he saw and not what others wanted to see. He painted meaningful paintings such as Olympia (1865), Manet chose to paint a woman of his time instead of what was accepted in the french art. This painting was hated by many, it was not acceptable to paint courtesans also known as mistresses. Upon researching this painting many people felt as if he humanized prostitution. The women were meant to be modeled after historical, mythical or biblical themes. Manet came from a privileged family, instead of painting what he saw around him he wanted to paint the lower class or the less desirable.
Capturing moments of them getting ready for the day, being with clients or being with their lovers is what Toulouse did the best. The viewer always feels as if they the paintings are like cracks in a door or looking through key holes, nothing is disturbed. Meaning the models are not painted to seem to know that they are, it is painted just like a moment. Putting this into the appropriate will not be hard as I am not changing major parts of the paintings. Hopefully the theme will still be prevalent in the appropriated piece. The messages Toulouse tried to communicate were that he painted in a true way. He did not cover up ‘imperfections’ and
He took a different route than Leger when it came to expressing his artistic skill. He was an expressionist who distorted the body and space.
-what makes him different than the rest of the other artist in his time is how he uses more emotions and human faces in his paintings
At the time when Jean was alive, his work was considered a political advertisement. Many thought he was trying to persuade others to one political side through his artwork. People did not approve of his artwork and therefore rejected it. We now know that in reality, he was trying to bring light to peasants. His style of art was unique and he had a special talent for giving his figures a unique sense of dignity and majesty.