Rene Magritte : The Son Of Man

His mother, who was something of an amateur artist herself, frequently took him to visit New York’s many art museums, and even enrolled him in a children’s program at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Basquiat would later credit his mother with getting him started as an artist. Basquiat’s first artistic works were cartoon drawings, often of characters from Alfred Hitchcock films. Basquiat would sit beside his mother at night, drawing his cartoon sketches while she worked on her own designs.” From what I have researched I have learned that Basquiat and his father did not have a good relationship.

One day in 1893, Pierre Bonaire strolled on the streets of Paris. Many years later, he will be the post-impressionist Zongjiang, founder of the Nabi School of painting and the world, but then, he was just a 26-year-old solo painter. In the street, he helped a girl cross the road, and then occasionally began to chat: she said he was 16 years old, called Mardel de Mellini, first came to Paris, working in the flower shop. Later she became Bonnard's model, and then naturally become the lover of Bonnard.

During the 1950’s art took a major turn in history from traditional styles depicting people and scenes of everyday life to abstract thoughts and ideas that were transformed onto a canvas to express emotions and ideals in society. People, events, and society have always impacted several styles of art, but the consumer culture in the 1950’s impacted art in a new completely unique way. Post WWII society was more industrialized and more focused on developing and selling new products. The postwar generation had more disposable income to spend on the latest and greatest products and the market turned to advertisements in mass media to get their products out there to consumers. With televisions and films increasing in popularity the market flooded these forms of media with catchy flashy ads that showed favorable people like movie stars using products. With the increasing use of mass media, the culture shifted to consumerism which effectively shifted art as well. Art was directly impacted by the consumer culture because of society’s use of advertisements, photographs, and films which artists like Richard Hamilton and Andy Warhol used those elements in their own works to portray the change of societal standards in a new modern style of art called pop art.

Van Gogh stares at guests with such solemn eyes that seem to be all colors at once. Claude Monet takes you to the French country side that are covered in swaying pastures of yellow wildflowers and haystacks. The relaxed posed of Renoir’s nude female models shows the realistic ideas the impressionism artists had for the future of art. They painted the true colors of the world around them and present them to us as we pass through the hallways. There is a muffled quietness in the exhibit as everyone observes the sound the paintings reflect as though trying to here the gentle breeze in Monet’s painting of water lilies. Everyone gathers to gaze at George Seurat’s meticulous work that covers an expansive wall which barely contains the impressive effort. Cameras flash trying to capture the unique and awe-inspiring talent and dedication that made Seurat famous but none are able. No one can truly capture the detail and dedication that all artists put into their work through photos, you have to stand right in front of it to come

Claude Monet was the chief pioneer of the Impressionism period. Monet was born in Paris (1840-1926) and moved near Le Havre at a young age. At only the age of 15, Monet created his first successful drawings of caricatures. Monet continued to study drawing until he met Eugene Boudin, who is responsible for intruding Monet to a new style of painting; stepping outside the studio and painting in the open air. This style would give way to more than 60 years of art that used "effective methods to

A well known artist of the 20th century is Georges Braque, born on May 13, 1882, in Argenteuil, France. Braque took after his father and grandfather in house panting. Braque studied painting from 1897-1899 a the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He took his love for artistic painting to the next level where he then moved to Paris. From 1902-1904 he continued to paint at the Academie Humbert. In 1910 a close artist and friend Pablo Picasso introduced Braque to model Marcelle Lapre which then later married in 1912. Braque also served in the French Army during World War I and sustained wounds to the head in 1915. With his failing health that prevented Braque from creating any large-scale commissioned projects he still continues with his art work in 1917.

On November 14th, Claude Monet was born in Paris, France. His parents took him back to their home in Le Havre, a commercial-maritime city widely known for many cliffs, open seas, and wonderful sunsets that made an everlasting impression on Monet that would forever show up in his work. His father’s

In the decade following World War II, the nation’s leading designers of appliances, automobiles and a vast range of other mass produced items questioned the social and cultural implications of working-class prosperity. From this, America was introduced to a range of glamorized advertisements, compelling consumers to reach the American Dream through consumption of their products (Nickles, 2002). Pop Artists such as Claes Oldenburg worked to critique this post-war boom in production and consumption through his imitation of two dimensional forms of advertisement such as billboards, magazines and television, working with three dimensional mediums such as papier mache, plaster models and soft fabric in order to bring new methods into Pop Art (Brinkley,

This art school focused on traditional techniques of artistry, which were not interesting to Magritte. This caused him to lose interest in art for a while until a fellow student introduced him to the new and upcoming styles of Futurism, Cubism, and Purism. Art critics say his early works were influenced by Cubists Jean Metzinger and Fernand Leger. Magritte would only identify as a surrealist when he saw the work of Giorgio de Chirico. As Magritte developed his own style and came into his own as an artist, he became more well known. In fact, many of his more well known pieces, including The Son of Man, The Listening Room, and The Blank Check were painted during the latter portion of his

Hardly enough is known about Magritte’s early life. March 12, 1912, his mother committed suicide after several attempts. Magritte’s father, Leopold, usually restrained her by locking her up in her room so she couldn’t harm herself, but one day she escaped and wasn’t found days later. Her body was found with her dress covering her face in the River Sambre. She had drowned. It is believed that’s the reason why Rene Magritte’s paintings of 1927- 1928 had people with cloth distorting their faces.

They fly before the eye: a blur of images punctuated by a cacophony of sound, text and spoken words. Some are clear, overt, to the point; others, subtle, perhaps even sublime. We are discussing ads and the world of wants and needs they create, the art of making something, out of nothing at all. In the 19th Century, ads migrated from hawkers to handouts to newspapers and the battle for space within a newspaper or magazine. It “morphed” into radio as networks sought sponsors for programming and businesses, and were all too willing to pay money to advertise their products on the air, often pitched by the radio stars of the day. As television became dominant, radio sponsors became television sponsors. Even motion pictures aren’t immune: advertisers

Paul Gauguin is known for being one of the world's greatest painters, although he was not much appreciated at his time. His work seems to tell stories of his life. In his series of painting done in Tahiti, we can see the many wonders that Gauguin himself explored. Today Gauguin's painting run for millions. For example; Paul Gauguin's Maternite (II) done in 1899 was sold for $39.2 million. That wasn't the case back when Gauguin first started his new career. In this essay I will determine to explore Gauguin's life and his well-known painting Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

Rene Magritte was an enigmatic and strange man who painted surrealism paintings. Little is known about his childhood except that his mother, Regine Magritte took her own life by drowning herself in the Sambre river. Young Magritte is thought to have discovered her body floating with her night garment covering her face. There is speculation that this trauma was an influence on many of Magritte’s works. When Rene Magritte took up his brushes, he created beautiful visual riddles that delight and bewilder the viewer. His clean lines and highly detailed finishes made his brush strokes nearly invisible; his paintings look as if they came from a printing press. Magritte referred to his paintings as “his labors.” He did labor over the paintings

The Human Condition, or La condition humaine was two paintings created by Rene Magritte, one in 1933 and the other in 1935. Both contain many formal similarities, yet the main point of the painting is that there is a painting of a landscape, yet that painting perfectly fits with, or completes, the landscape, as if it was perfectly drawn. In this analysis, I will be analyzing Magritte’s first painting, made in 1933. Magritte’s works often include objects hiding behind others, such as with Magritte’s The Son of Man, where a man in a bowler hat is hiding his face behind a floating apple. Magritte does this also in the Human Condition, yet to express a different meaning. Magritte is one of the major spearheads of the surrealist movement, a type of modernism, in which the fabric of realism and definitions are questions. One of Magritte’s more famous works, The Treachery of Images, Magritte shows a picture of what obviously is a pipe, yet, written in French beneath the image, states “This is not a pipe.” This was the dawn of a philosophy which would take the western art world by storm, called structuralism/post-structuralism. This is the philosophy where ideas/words and their meanings can be flexible depending on the viewer or the circumstance. This philosophy believes in the subconscious identification with images/colors that people have with art. In Magritte’s Treachery of the Images, his statement that “this is not a pipe” can be interpreted in different ways. One could say,

The famous Belgian surrealist artist “Rene Magritte” was famous for his everyday imaginary and interesting graphics.