James Van Der Zee Essay

The first episode was over all mainly about the upcoming of America and its industrialization.

Vincent Van Gogh is one of the most infamous and influential artists of all time. When I saw that Van Gogh’s painting “Olive Trees With Yellow Sky and Sun” was on display at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, I knew I had to choose it for this paper. Before doing the research for this assignment, I didn’t know much about Vincent Van Gogh, but the fact that pretty much everyone knows his name and recognizes him as a huge part of art history, it made me naturally really curious about him.

One the most distinguished artists of the twentieth century, Jacob Lawrence was born in Atlantic City and spnt part of his child hood in Pennsylvania. After his parents split up in 1924, he went with his mother and siblings to New York, settling in Harlem. "He trained as a painter at the Harlem Art Workshop, inside the New York Public Library's 113 5th Street branch. Younger than the artists and writers who took part in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, Lawrence was also at an angle to them: he was not interested in the kind of idealized, fake-primitive images of blacks - the Noble Negroes in Art Deco guise - that tended to be produced as an antidote to the toxic racist stereotypes with which white popular culture had flooded

the tenement houses. Also, Riis took his photographs for a New York newspaper company using

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

Imagine a life without art. Jacob Lawrence allowed his horrific experiences in Harlem, and life's misfortunes to enable him to become one the most recognized African American artists ever. “During his early childhood, Jacob was surrounded by art and attended an art school which influenced his passion” (James Lawrence Biography). Furthermore, his experience with segregation and racial bias helped influence many of his most famous pieces of art. Lastly, Jacob Lawrence's artwork helped influence and usher in an era of change in the African-American community and continues to influence African American change today.

Martin Van Buren once said, “Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.” America wouldn’t have prospered into the powerful confederacy Van Buren describes it to be without the values and ideas of America’s colonial past. America’s present is best understood to be based upon British culture and government. However, colonists fought for freedom from the suffocating British throne, they tolerated religious freedom, and their government was founded on republican views. Therefore, America’s present is constructed of values and ideas opposite of what the British taught.

The Holocaust started in 1933. At this time, so many Jews were going into hiding. Hitler sent every Jew to a death camp to be killed or suffer. Both men and women were sent to the camps. Two men that went to the camps were Otto Frank and Hermann Van Daan. While reading The Diary of Anne Frank, I was introduced to two men that were in the Holocaust. Otto Frank and Hermann Van Daan had many similarities and differences.

In the painting, ‘Virgin and Child’, by Rogier van der Weyden, it can be observed that the artist chose to use the medium of oil on wood. Despite the fact that Rogier van der Weyden created this painting in the Netherlands and was born in Tournai, Belgium, their primary influence appeared to stem from the Italian Renaissance, which had begun to use the technique of oil paintings with increasing frequency by turn of the 15th century. The subject of the painting itself, Madonna and her virgin child, were a common theme in the Renaissance, where religious subjects and topics were the primary choice for any prominent artist during this historical artistic period.

William James was a philosopher and psychologist but was most well known in the field of Psychology for developing the philosophy of pragmatism, or the Functionalist theory: "Theory of mental life and behavior that is concerned with how an organism uses its perceptual abilities to function in its environment." He was also the first Psychologist to be born in America.

He continued his education at the Carnegie Institute in Pennsylvania graduating with a BA in Fine Art. Warhol moved to New York in 1948-49 where he started work as a graphic designer, creating adverts for fashion magazines such as Glamour, Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. Andy Warhol shot to fame and soon became highly respected as a commercial artist. ”Tina Fredrick, then art director of Glamour” says “She was thrilled by Andy’s drawings but could not find a commercial use for them. She told him his drawings were good, but Glamour could only use drawings of shoes at the moment. The next day Warhol came back with 50 drawings of shoes” footwear being an important part of his advertising career until the mid 1960s.

A great artist once wrote, “If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced”. This artist was Vincent van Gogh, soon to be an appraised artist known all around the world for his works, such as Starry Night. He is one of the very first artists of the post-impressionist style than is now adored in every continent. However, there is much more to the man than one painting. Creating a full timeline that stretches beyond Gogh’s life, this paper will discuss the life of Vincent van Gogh and the impression he made on the world.

When Van Gogh was sixteen, his first job was working for his uncle at Goupil et Cie, an art gallery in The Hague. When he was nineteen he went to work at the Groupil Gallery in London and then to the gallery in Paris. He was finally fired from the gallery because he was not happy with his job and discoursed customers from buying the artwork. After that he decided that he wanted to be a preacher and studied to get into a theological school but failed. In 1879 he went to Borinage, a coal mining town, as a missionary to the poor coal miners. He lasted there a couple of years and then was dismissed.

Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on March 30th 1853, in Zundert, The Netherlands. Van Gogh spent his teenage year’s working for a firm of art dealers; however, he did not embark upon his art career until 1880. Originally, he worked only with dark and gloomy colors, until he came across the art movements developed in Paris known as, Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism (Meier-Graefe 4). Van Gogh than included their brighter colors and unique style of painting into his very own creations. He produced more than 2,000 works, including around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches, during the last ten years of his life (Meier-Graefe 10). However, most of his best-known works were produced in his last

          4. Later Van Gogh decide to moved to his next and final career which was An Artist.