Louis Joseph Watteau's Contribution to French Art

Pierre Bonnard was born on October 3rd, 1867 at Fontenay-aux-Roses, a village outside Paris. He was the son of prominent official of the French Ministry of War. Due to his insitnace Bonnard studied law at Sorbonne from 1885 to 1888. During the year of 1887 Bonnard enrolled in evening classes at Académie Julian, which was an art school in Paris. While at the art school he and four of his friends joined together and formed group which was known as Les Nabis. They used this group to integrate art into daily life; they did this by combining nature with personal aesthetic and symbolism. They used posters, prints, book illustrations and paintings to show this. In 1981 Bonnard won his first competition which was making a poster for French champagne, also in 1891 Bonnard showed his work at an annual exhibit at the Society of Independent Artists. This is where he started to make his mark in the artist community. He didn’t become an established and successful artist until 1896; this is when he had his first solo art show.

Antoine Watteau’s La Perspective (View through the Trees in the Park of Pierre Crozat) uses many elements of the Rococo style of painting to instill a sense of intimacy. In this painting, members of the elite society gather unceremoniously in a wooded clearing. The people make casual exchanges as they mingle in the park. Trees and foliage dominate a majority of the painting. A small white building can be seen in the background through a clearing in the trees. Watteau uses color, composition, setting, and pose in the painting to create intimacy.

He kept a secret for many years and went to check it himself from time to time. He trusted archaeologist Jean Clotte who was also a speleologist. Jean Clotte was a speleologist and archaeologist he is very important in the government of France. He called Jean Courtin who was a archaeologist and a professional diver he was also very important. They didn't make the discovery public because the public could harm the paintings.

Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (born April 16, 1755, Paris, France - died March 30, 1842, Paris) was a best-known French painter. She had an artist father,

The Full-length portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour and the painting Louis XIV are both on display at the Louvre Art Museum in France. The painting of Louis XIV was painted by Hyacinthe Rigaud in 1659-1743. The painting depicts a portrait of King Louis XIV of France and is about nine by six in height and width. In the painting Louis XIV is shown in a very regal manor wearing a big fur coat and sword by his side; he trying show off his wealth and position in France to the world. The Full-length portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour was painted by Maurice-Quentin Delatour in 1748-1755. This painting depicts a rare scene of an 18th century aristocratic woman and is almost six by four feet in height and width. The woman in the painting is shown reviewing what it seems to be diplomatic paper maybe portraying that she is very intellectual and has a high political standing, yet she looks away as if she is trying to be humble about her position.The paintings both compare and contrast with each other in principles of desgin.

Louis Pasteur was born 27 December 1822 and grew up in a small village, Arbois in France. In school, he liked to paint and draw so his teachers encouraged him to work hard on that subject. However, his father thought that painting was just something Louis could do at his pastime and told him to study hard. Louis followed his advice and graduated in 1847 from a highly regarded school in Paris called École Normale Supérieure. There, he had studied molecular asymmetry and continued to examine it at the University of Strasbourg. Louis soon discovered that molecules that looked like they were the same could occur as mirror images of each other. The finding was a huge step forward in the microchemistry.

Henri Rousseau, born in May 21, 1844, was a self-taught artist who started his artistic career when he was forty. He began his life working as a clerk, then he joined the French army after being accused of stealing money from his employer. He later moved to Paris and obtained a job working for the French Customs Office, and it was there that he began painting part-time. It was really this background of his that allowed his paintings to be original and uninfluenced by traditional painting techniques. Since he was a self-taught artist and had no significant experience with painting, he had the freedom to paint as he perceived and as he imagined. Henri Rousseau was a man who liked to exaggerate his life to make himself seem adventurous and exciting. He made up stories about his time in the military and overstated his importance in the Customs office where he worked. This was also reflected in his artwork where manipulated the painting to emphasize beauty and excitement.

Early in 1639, Poussin was invited to Paris to work for King Louis XIII. Poussin almost did except for he didn't be to uproot from Rome. But soon changed his mind and arrived in Paris where he remained for the next eighteen months. Poussin was soon named First Painter to the King upon his arrival in Paris. When there he was in charge of the decorating of the royal residences and designed the Long Gallery of the Louvre. As well painted altarpieces for the king and members of his court. At this time Poussin had lots of assistance for these projects to help complete and master the works under his power. In 1642 Poussin was promoted to go home to Rome after being frustrated with the extensive demand of the king.

Most Post-Impressionists worked in Paris. “Paris was considered to be the art capital of the world at that time. There was an intense concentration of artistic activity and art dealers in the city, and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and academie Jlian were key schools where many artists were taught.” (Bolton 9) When he was alive he was a known artist but after he died he became famous. Some of his paintings was “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”, “Bathers at Asnieres”, and “The Lighthouse at Honfleur.” But his most famous one is “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande

During Jacques teen years he didn't really have an interest in photos anymore so he took up another one of his passions,painting.Jacques went to the Academie Julian in Paris from 1915 to 1916, He always

John Everett Millais was born in Southampton, England in 1829. His mother, being very interested in art and music, encouraged Millais to pursue the same interests. Millais grew to become a child prodigy and was admitted into the Royal Academy Schools at the mere age of 11, an unprecedented achievement. There, he formed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with fellow students, whose goals were to relay a message of artistic renewal and moral reform. Millais produced many controversial works during his time as part of the Brotherhood. When he married his wife, Effie Millais, and his family grew with children, he realized he had to change his style to please the public; Millais needed the money to support his large family. Thus, he began to paint with

Power of Art in Court Under the Louis XIV In the movie “The King is Dancing”, Louis XIV is portrayed as an absolute ruler in a baroque style at Versailles, who maintains control of his nation using dance and festivities. The movie centers around Louis XIV’s career as a dancer, frequently using scenes of festivities which portray life at the court under his reign. Namely, the pursuit of celebratory glory can be seen as Louis XIV was regularly dancing in court ballets. It also focuses on the relationship between Louis XIV and his court composer Lully, who initially opposes playing part of politics in court, but then becomes devoted to the King.

Jacques Louis David was born in France in 1749, when he was nine years old his father was killed in a dual, his mother then left him with his two wealthy uncles who raised him for the following years. At a young age he was gifted in basic art skills and styles with an imaginative mind full of ideas. Despite opposition from his Uncles he was able to pursue his dream of painting. He was given the opportunity to learn painting skills from François Boucher who was a French painter of the Rococo style, and a leading painting of the time as well as a family friend. Boucher noted the change in times from Rococo period to the neoclassic style and noticed

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was born on August 29, 1780 in Montauban, France. His mother, Anne Moulet, was the daughter of a successful wigmaker and was illiterate. His father, Jean Marie Joseph Ingres, was an jack-of-all-trades artist; he was a painter, sculptor, stonemason, and musician. Ingres’ first teacher in the arts was his father, who encouraged him in drawing and music. In 1786, he started studying at the local school, l’École des Frères de l’Education Chretienne. Unfortunately, the school was closed in 1791 due to the French Revolution. The same year, Ingres’ father took him to Toulouse, where he enrolled in the Academie Royale de Peinture, Sculpture, et Architecture. There he studied under the sculptor Jean-Pierre Vigan and the

This paper looks at the artistic movement known as Rococo in France after the death of Louis XIV. Artwork by France’s Jean-Antoine Watteau, and Jean-Antoine Fragonard, as well as artwork done by Italian artist Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, and will be discussed to demonstrate that Rococo and the themes of the pictures represented a form of escapism for the aristocracy in Europe.