he enrolled at the prominent Ecole des Beaux-Arts school in 1855. Only one year later, Degas left Paris and went on a three year study and travel in Italy. During this time, he saturated himself with antiquity paintings and sculptures and the Renaissance. He filled his sketchbook with hundreds of copies of art by Michelangelo, da Vinci and other artist.
In 1880 at the age of 27, Van Gogh moved to Brussels began taking lessons on his own. He took some lessons from his cousin by marriage. He studied some books like Travaux des champs by Jean-Francois Millet and Cours de dessin by Charles Bargue. After completing his
Edgar Degas was making drawing of the ballerinas and dancers in 19th century. French artist Edgar Degas created hundreds of artworks that captured the ballet world of 19th century Paris. Degas regularly went to the Palais Garnier Opera House to observe the ballerinas. His focus was on their natural movement as they practiced. Exploring the way the dancers bodies flowed through performance. Edgar showed a talent for drawing while young and wanted to become and artist. Edgar spent a lot of time at the louvre a famous art museum in Paris. He loved paint the dancers practicing. He wanted to capture their energy, hard work and effort .He copied many of the masterpieces of classical artists. Most people know Degas as the painter of ballerinas. Degas
Vincent took drawing classes from Anton Mauve and his uncle gave him his first commission which was twelve drawings of the city view. In 1884 he rented a large space in Nuenen which was home to many farmers, rural laborers and weavers and that’s who he painted and sketched. He gave Theo some of his works to sell but that didn’t work out because his works had a dark tone and the French preferred color. In 1885 after his father died he moved out of his family home and into his studio where he started working on The Potato Eaters (1885). During that year he enrolled in an art academy in Antwerp where he found the classes too traditional for him. He went to stay with Theo in Paris in 1886 and Theo introduced him to colorful arts of modern artists like Claude Monet. Also he met a group of post-impressionist artists at Fernand Cormon’s studio which influenced and inspired him to use brighter colors. He started using short brush strokes and painting cafes and boulevards. He also found inspiration in Japanese woodcuts and started to collect and study them. Vincent moved to Arles and he loved it there because of the bright light and colors. He had a plan to set up a “Studio of the South” there
Later, the family returned to France where Michelangelo would be raised. Initially, Michelangelo’s father did not approve of his sons interest of art, but finally when he was 13, he was apprenticed to painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. A year later, he had gotten the attention of Lorenzo de’ Medici, who was amongst the city’s most literate, poetic and talented men. As Michelangelo acclimated himself to Lorenzo’s school, he was introduced by many prominent people who modified and expanded his ideas on art. And may have had an impact about his feelings about his
Michelangelo was born in 1475 in Caprese, Italy, but shortly after his birth his family moved to Florence, Italy (J dr Tolnay). Florence was a robust center of art during the Renaissance and afforded young Michelangelo many opportunities to explore his interest in the arts. At age 13, Michelangelo became the apprentice of Domenico Ghirlandaio, known for his fresco paintings and large workshop for apprenticeship (World Gallery of Art). Within a year, Michaelangelo caught the attention of popular Florence art patron, Lorenzo de' Medici, who offered Michelangelo a place in his Medici palatial (Columbia University). During Michelangelo's stay at the Medici household, he was exposed to philosophy, politics, artists, and different mediums of art (Michelangelo Gallery). The teachings Michelangelo received during time would go on to influence his later works of art. When
Vincent then attended preparatory classes with intense lessons of Dutch, German, French, and English along with the traditional array of math and science courses. Yet for reasons unknown, in March of 1868, Vincent returned to his home in Zundert. His boyhood came to a close in July of 1869 when he joined the art business as a dealer for Goupil & Co. This was a family tradition, as three of his uncles, including one also by the name of Vincent, were also art dealers. Vincent’s brother Theo would also become an art dealer four years after him. As a young child, Vincent was not known for his own creation of art. Though his family made a great impact on his view of dealing art, he was not an art prodigy like other famous arts such as Henri de Toulous-Lautrec and Pablo Picasso were. While a handful of his drawings between the ages of eight and ten have survived, he did not truly take a serious interest in creating art until he was twenty-seven. (Hulsker & Miller, 5-14)
In 1905 he and Matisse went to Collioure and stayed there to paint for the summer. During this time they created a large volume of art that is, in my opinion, some of their best. Later that same year, they would display their works in the Salon de Automne where they would earn the title of “Fauvists. ” The next year, in 1906, he received a commission from French art dealer Ambroise Vollard to paint London. I believe the art he painted during this period is some of his best because with them you can see the world in a whole new way, sort of like a dream world. He gives ordinary everyday things new
Leonardo da Vinci was born in Italy and was raised by his father and stepmother. When he was five years old, he moved to his father’s side of the family estate. He received little formal education yet he still learned basic reading, writing, and mathematics. Surprisingly, his artistic capabilities were revealed during his early ages. Around fourteen years old, da Vinci was an apprentice to the artist, Andrea del Verrocchio, that lasted a very long time. He learned various technical skills including metalworking, leather arts, carpentry, drawing, painting, and sculpting. His earliest dated work was made with pen
Leonardo had little education beyond basic reading, writing and mathematics. He was largely self-taught. Instead of art, he studied nature, mechanics, anatomy, physics, weaponry, and more. Later, he started doing art and his first artwork was done in pen and ink. It was called Arno Valley, sketched in 1473. Other pieces like “The Adoration of the Magi” hasn’t been finished. He qualified for membership as a master artist in Florence’s Guild of Saint Luke and made his own workshop. Leonardo was best known for his paintings, but his best masterpieces were “Mona Lisa”, and “The Last Supper”.
Alberto Giacometti was born son of impressionist painter Giovanni Giacometti in the Swiss town of Borgonovo on October 10, 1901. Between the years of 1919 to 1920, Alberto Giacometti studied painting, sculpture and drawing in Geneva. By 1920, after spending time in Venice and Padua, Giacometti went to Florence and Rome, where he encountered rich collections of Egyptian art. The stylized and fixed, yet striding, figures with their steady gazes proved to have a lasting impact on his art. In 1922 he moved to Paris to continue his studies in art. Through the 1920s, Giacometti broke with traditional techniques and began to explore the sculptural possibilities of Surrealism after being inspired by artists such as Joan Miro, Max Ernst and Pablo Picasso.
Leonardo left his apprenticeship in 1482. He left to look for challenges and to make money. He ended up working for the Duke Ludovico Sforza's in Milan. He worked for him for 17 years. Other than painting from 1485 to 1490, Leonardo produced a studies on loads of subjects, including nature, flying machines, geometry, mechanics, municipal construction, canals and architecture.
Dali enrolled in 1922 at the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid. Dali lived at the schools residence, he started to grow long hair and sideburns. Dali also started to dress in the style of English Aesthetes of the late 19th century. He was suspended from the academy in 1923
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
reached the age of 14. At 18 he became more serious about his art and