Jean Honore Fagonard Research Paper

This source is influential for readers because they are able to learn about the struggles of race, gender, and capitalism in the 2008 election as well as economic equivalences. Jean Ait Belkhir is an associate professor of sociology at Southern University at New Orleans and University of New Orleans, and argues that gender and race matters regardless if you are a Democrat or Republican. Belkhir demonstrated that candidates in politics are usually white males, older of age, and upper class men. Throughout Belkhir articles, the reader will notice that the nation mindset is devoted that women do not belong in any authority regarding the government. However, Belkhir mentions two women who have changed the nation’s mindset, Sarah Palin and Hilary

Turn on ESPN, and there are many female sports reporters, and many reports on female athletes. Flip through Sports Illustrated, and female athletes are dotted throughout the magazine. Female athletes star in commercials. Female athletes are on the cover of newspapers. Millions of books have been sold about hundreds of female athletes. However, this has not always been the case. The number of females playing sports nowadays compared to even twenty years ago is staggering, and the number just keeps rising. All the women athletes of today have people and events from past generations that inspired them like Babe Didrikson Zaharias, the All-American Professional Girls Baseball League, Billie Jean King, and the 1999 United States Women’s World Cup

Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gough and Georgia O'Keeffe are all famous for their eloquent works of art. Although, I am no Picasso I do enjoy painting. When I was younger, you could often find me hanging out in the kitchen with my Nana (I am not allowed to call her grandma- long story). My eyes would get lost in the smooth color as we swirled the different colors together. Painting became sort of my Nana and I's special thing. As I grew visiting my Nana became less and less often along with creating my paintings.

I had at least three or four that deserved the highlight, but I have to choose the portrait of a roman lady created in 1859, also known as La nana. The artist was Sir Frederic Leighton and he did a superb job at creating this portrait. As it is said the eyes are a window to the soul and I dazed into these eyes for at lest ten minutes. There was an essence or something indescribable that pulled me to this piece. There was all these magnificent works of art and the only thing I could remember clearly was this Woman's gaze. I chose this piece excuse while I observed all the other art work I truly understood this work of

The Princesse de Lamballe (a close friend of Marie Antoinette), fled revolutionary France to rally foreign support for the monarchy. Despite being in the safety of the English court and knowing the dangers that awaited, she returned to France out of a deep sense of loyalty for her friend and queen. Before returning, she made sure to write out her last will and testament, knowing that in the midst of the revolution she would be presented with no other opportunity to do so.

Saint Bonaventure was born in Umbria, Italy to parents Giovanni di Fidanza who was a physician and Maria Ritella, he was an Italian medieval Franciscan, scholastic theologian and philosopher, and there is not a lot of information about his childhood. He fell ill while he was young and was saved from death by the intercession of St. Francis of Assisi. He was born as Giovanni di Fidanza just like his father but later on be canonized by Pope Sixtus IV. He would be also later on declared a Doctor of the church in 1588 by Pope Sixtus V.

Flemish artist, David Teniers– David Teniers II or David Teniers the younger– was one of the most famous and prominent artist of peasant life in the 17th century. He was born in Antwerp and his works were influenced by his father, David Teniers the Elder, and his father-in-law, Jan Brueghel. In 1632, Teniers became a master of a guild in St. Luke. He was later chosen to preside over the same guild in St. Luke in 1644 (“David Teniers the Younger”). Teniers achieved noble status in 1663 and also successfully lobbied for the establishment of an art school in his city (Van Vlieghe). Teniers is believed to have over 2,000 paintings. One of those paintings is called Winter Scene with a Man Killing a Pig circa 1650. The medium is oil on canvas, with

The artist I would like to discuss today is Joan Miro. Joan Miro is famous for his work as a painter and sculptor well also being recognized mostly for his surrealistic work in the art community. Joan Miro has many museums in Spain that are dedicated to his work over his lifetime as an artist. He was born in Barcelona and began drawing at the age of 7. He was unique compared to the rest of his family who were goldsmiths and watchmakers. Without his father's approval, Joan enrolled in art classes as a young boy and from that point on the rest is history. Joan is and will forever be known as one of the main artists who helped push the surrealist movement.

John Singer Sargent for his willingness to surrender himself through his quickly applied paint strokes, expressing the visceral qualities of the captured moment. Making things appear effortless, Sargent found the most efficient way to accurately and elegantly express a scene while preserving spontaneity. I can think of no other watercolorist that had the instincts and craft to rival him.

Out of the three artists I chose Cindy Sherman. Cindy Sherman was born on January 19, 1954 in glen ridge, New Jersey. Sherman wasn’t always deeply interested in the arts growing up, but finally decided there was a way of art that could show a message about the world, and hold meaning. Sherman’s first works of art were of her taking self portraits, and having them displayed. Sherman’s work conveyed many different meanings of different parts of media, and culture. Her pieces were sometimes viewed as strange, and many people had a hard time picking up what she had behind them. The art work of hers generally displayed some sort of stereotype or idea in the society. Cindy Sherman had many powerful displays of art, but one I really found interesting

Gabriel Fauré was a French composer, educator, pianist, and organist, born in Pamiers, Ariège in 1845. As a young child, Fauré spent hours at the harmonium and showed a talent for music. He attended the Ecole Niedermeyer [at the time it was just established by Louis Niedermeyer and was called the Ecole de Musique Classique et Religieuse] beginning in October of 1854 and stayed for the next 11 years. While Fauré was there, Louis Niedermeyer died and his piano class was taken by Saint-Saëns, who introduced Fauré and his classmates to contemporary music composers including that of Schumann, Liszt, and Wagner. (Nectoux) While at the Ecole Niedermeyer, Fauré received awards in solfege, harmony, piano, two literary prizes and a premier prix in composition, fugue, and counterpoint in 1865 [also marked the end of his student career. Fauré held a number of

I believe the best artist happens to be the nameless artist who first drew representations of the things found around them and gave birth to the concept of art. The "Hall of the Bulls" from 16000 to 14000 BC in the caves at Lascaux(Chapter 1: Art in the Stone Age) may not be the first such painting, but having been dated as one of the earliest, is a good representation of the what the first artist created. The pitch and ocher lines on the stone backdrop of the possibly religious nature of the location meant that the first art we beheld and considered with the reverence due a turning point in human history, when man first commits to his medium the interpretation of what his senses have gleaned from the world around him, preserving the memory

Michel Foucault’s work within philosophy has made important impacts when it comes to understanding how power affects a capitalist state. Believed that history of a country should how the past created a better future for society but in most cases through history, that was not the case. One of the examples that Foucault uses is how the mentally ill were treated in the Renaissance compared to the 18th century. During the Renaissance period, the mental ill people were allowed to seen within society and were seen as useful and gave wisdom into their society rather than in the 18th century. People with mental illness were put away and see as a burden to society and seen as needed to being cured by sinister people. Another example that Foucault discuss

thoughts. Over the years of history, artists such as Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and many

I chose Antoni Gaudi because of the way he managed to incorporate the themes of nature and religion into his work. Gaudi had a very deep appreciation and pride of the Mediterranean heritage. A famous comment of him was "We own the image. Fantasy comes from the ghosts. Fantasy is what people in the North own. We are concrete" this really describes his way of viewing his own work... through his complete disregard from past designers and his lust for starting a new trend which he got from nature. His love for nature was started by the time he spent in his garden while enjoying his youth. He would spend hours in the garden looking at how trees would move in the wind. This would later go on to inspire him to use the great sweeping curves he would later use in his design projects.