Research Paper On Pierre Auguste Renoir

A man was born on October 22, 1844. Most of the people in the 1800’s didn’t know that this man would help shape Canada into what it is today. This man’s name is Louis Riel. Most of the people presently can’t decide if Louis Riel left a good legacy or a bad one. Personally, I think that he left a good legacy.

Claude was born in Paris, France in the year 1840. Despite the fact that Paris was his birthplace, Claude only spent 5 years of his childhood there as he and his family moved to Le Havre, a port town in Normandy. Claude developed a love for art in his early childhood and was well known in his town for drawing caricatures of his community members. His mother was highly encouraged his talent whereas Claude’s father wanted his son to become a businessman. Living in Le Havre, Claude had many opportunities to strengthen his talent such as meeting Eugene Boudin who was a local landscape artist and introduced Claude to landscape painting outdoors and set him on the track to his future success. In 1859 Claude moved back to Paris to pursue his career in art. During his time in Paris he was enrolled in the Academie Suisse and was influenced by the paintings of Barbizon School. Other great influences on his art were his friends Charles Gleyre, Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and Frederic Bazille as well as Johann Barthold Jongkind who was a well-known landscape painter of the

Coming into this Art Appreciation class, I knew very little about who Vincent Van Gogh was as an artist, and as a person. I feel I’ve learned a great deal about him after just a few short classes, especially after listening to the heartfelt song written to him by Don Mclean, titled Vincent. I now realize that the struggles Vincent experienced from his mental disorders were communicated through his many paintings, and there’s much more to the artwork than the painting itself, of which I already find very impressive. I think Don Mclean does a phenomenal job at capturing these feelings in his song. Even though I’m already a fan of his music, Vincent really moved me on more of an emotional level.

Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch painter, he was a post-impressionist whose work is remarkable for its beauty, color, and emotion. He suffered from epilepsy, bipolar disorder, sunstroke, acute intermittent porphyria, lead poisoning and Meniere’s disease. Van Gogh was also fond of absinthe (Highly alcoholic beverage) that would later worsen his mental illness. Plagued with mental illnesses Van Gogh committed suicide on 1890. Theo his younger brother was his support economically and emotionally.

Born in Leiden, Netherlands in 1606, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. Rembrandt was a 17th century painter and etcher whose work came to what has since been named the "Dutch Golden Age". Rembrandt's greatest creations are seen in his portraits of his contemporaries. Illustrations of biblical scenes and self-portraits as well as his innovative etchings and use of shadow and light. In 1612, Rembrandt attended elementary school until 1616, then attended the Latin School in Leiden. There is where he was in biblical studies and lessons on the classics. Rembrandt trained as an artist under two masters. His first was painter Jacob van Swanenburgh from 1571 to 1638 with whom he studied for about 3 years. Van Swanenburgh specialized in the vision of

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Haute-Vienne, France in 1841. He worked as an apprentice in a porcelain factory, but was more attracted to the artwork in the Louvre. Renoir began studying under Charles Gleyre, who also taught the artist Claude Monet, in 1862. For years, he painted and found little success due to financial woes and losing connections to the Le Cœur family in 1874, causing Renoir to lose his favorite painting spot. This caused his artistic subject choices to change dramatically. Through the years, Renoir developed rheumatoid arthritis, leaving him in a wheelchair for the remainder of his life. This struggle made him stronger as a person and an artist, as he continued to create despite his hardships.

In 1873, he married Mette Gad, a Danish woman who he moved back to Paris and had 5 children with. Painting started out as a hobby for Gauguin, but it soon became a job. Pissarro, who liked Gauguin’s art, invited him to exhibit with some impressionists, such as Edgar Degas and Claude Monet. Gauguin’s art dealer was Vincent Van Gogh’s brother. To do his art dealer a favour he went to live in Van Gogh’s home in Arles for a couple of weeks and they became friends, but there friendship came to an end when, in an argument Van Gogh held a knife to Gauguin.

Pierre -Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges, Haute-Vienna France. He was born during the nineteenth century. During the 1860s, he did not even have enough money to buy the paint. Renoir started first exhibiting paintings in the Paris Salon, in 1864. Renoir had six paintings hung in 1874, and the same year, two of his works were shown with Durand-Ruel, in London. Renoir's paintings are notable for their vibrant light and saturated color. He complete two amazing oil paniting The Dance in the City and The Dance at

Please do not take offence to this, as none is intended, but I completely disagree with your assertion of Palaeolithic paintings not reaching modern artistic standards. I will use modern examples to establish my claim.

In Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, Claude Debussy was born on August 22, 1862. By the time he was nine, Debussy became skilled at playing the piano. Debussy was encouraged to enter the Paris Conservatory in 1873. At this conservatory, he studied the piano and its structure. In 1884, with his cantata The Prodigal Child, Debussy won the Grand Prix de Rome. Debussy’s childhood was filled with many troubling situations. It was quite a bumpy ride. He was faced with problems, both substantial and emotional. He lived with his parents in the suburbs of Paris. They struggled living in poverty. Unpredictably, Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck, a Russian millionaire, took Debussy under her patronage. Throughout Europe, she and Debussy traveled to grand residences,

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.

The French Revolution began as an expression of rebellion against centuries of absolute rule in France. After an interim of experimental liberalism under the rule of Jacobins and Girondins and then the infamous reign of terror, the people of French were drawn to a man who promised them a return to stability, and  honor through the expansion of empire. France and it’s people had long yearned for this sens eof honour, it had seemed, and could finally sens eit in a lasting rpesence under the rule of their prodigious, unbeatable general, Napoleon Bonaparte. He would soon take the reigns of civil government as well and become yet another Absolutist ruler, yet this

Pierre Auguste Renoir is a French born artist who lived at his home town of Limoges, France. He died December 3, 1919. He was well known for his contributions to impressionist movement. All of his work contains some form warm colors which elicits a hearty and friendly atmosphere of its inhabitants.

Louis Pasteur was born on December 27, 1822 in Dole France and he grew up Arbois France. His mother is Jeanne Etiennette Pasteur and his father is Jean Joseph Pasteur. His siblings were Jean Denis, Jeanne Antoine, Josephine, Jeanne Emilie. Louis was a middle child but he outlived all of his other siblings. His father was a tanner which prepares animal skin to be made into leather. He was married to Marie Laurent on May 29, 1849 whom he met in college. His mother passed away sometime in May 1848 and his father passed away sometime in 1865. His wife, Marie Laurent, passed away on September 28, 1910 and Louis himself passed away on September 28, 1895. As a child, Louis Pasteur was highly intuitive in the field of art and was very devoted into the topic at a young age. In primary school, Louis was not very profound in the subjects of math and science, which is very surprising to most people. He spent hours on hours drawing, painting, and coloring anything and everything he could think of. He later went on to study for and achieve a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of

Henri Matisse was born on December 31, 1869. He was born to middle-class parents Emile-Hippolyte-Henri Matisse, a grain and hardware merchant, and Anna Heloise Gerard. His full name was Henri-Emile-Benoit Matisse. Henri grew up in Bohain-en-Vermandois and went to school at a college called de Saint Quentin. He went here before moving to Paris to study law. He returned in 1889 to Saint-Quentin as a law clerk, though he found the job tedious and complained of anxiety. Later that year he contracted appendicitis and spent several months at home recovering. At the age of 20, during that time, he discovered the welcome isolation and freedom of painting. Being struck by his new passion, Matisse left for Paris again in 1891, this time to study art. He failed the entrance exams for the Ecole des Beaux Arts, but unofficially joined the French symbolist painter known