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Jacob Lawrence was an African American painter, who was known for his portraits of the African American life. He was best known for his series titled, the Migration. Lawrence was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 7th of 1917. After his parents separated, Lawrence and his younger siblings were put into the foster care system until his mother could support her children in New York. His education into the world of art was not only formal, but informal as well. It was formal because he learned from after-school community workshops at Utopia House and later at the Harlem Art Workshop. However, it was informal because he could observe the rhythms and activity of the streets of Harlem. Not only was he a painter but he was active as a teacher, in contrast Lawrence was active as both a painter and art educator. In 1946, he began teaching at Black Mountain College in North Carolina and would go on to teach at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine and the New School for Social Research in New York. In 1971, Lawrence became a professor of painting at the University of Washington in Seattle. “Later on in his career, he was also known for his serigraphs (silkscreens), many of them versions of series of paintings completed in earlier years, as well as for his book illustrations. Lawrence was still drawing and painting in preparation for still another series of works when he died in Seattle in 2000.” (Capozzola)

John William Waterhouse was born in Rome, Italy in 1849. He painted figurative and narrative pictures primarily in oil. He was interested and found inspiration in stories and legends from British literature and Classical mythology. His

John Mix Stanley was born in Canandaigua, New York in 1814 and was later orphaned at the age of 12. Stanley began painting at a young age meanwhile being an apprentice to a carriage maker. He moved to Detroit in 1832, where he made a living as a sign painter and studied portrait painting with the artist James Bowman, with whom he traveled and worked for several years.

The focus of this paper will be to compare and contrast the works of two playwrights. The works that will be considered are Molière’s The Would-Be Gentleman and Beaumarchais’s The Marriage of Figaro. Both considered comedies, Moliere’s is a short play that tells the tale of Monsieur Jourdain, a tradesman who desires to become a gentleman. Beaumarchais’s play, second in the Figaro trilogy, follows the series of event prior to Figaro’s wedding. Figaro and his companions scheme to ensure that his marriage occurs smoothly. Furthermore, the plays are dated 100 years apart from each other, and they deal with the representation of social hierarchy, social mobility, and gender roles in various ways. With that in mind, they become good sources to compare and contrast the changes in society that occurred within those 100 years. This paper will compare both plays to examine how Molière further endorses the social values and ideas of his time, while Beaumarchais’s presents a shift in attitude towards those values and challenges them.

using water colors and oils, and did excellent pen and ink drawings. He began to make a name for

His preferred style of painting was Romanticism. The first studio of his was set up in Boston, Massachusetts. He went to England during the War of 1812 to study art with Washington Allston, and preserved in museums both in America and in England when he became a trained painter. He became associated with Marquis de Lafayette and James Fennimore Cooper. Some of his famous paintings were Dying Hercules, Jonas Platt, The Gallery of the Louvre, and The Chapel of the Virgin at Subiaco.

So, he went to Paris, France in the 50s to learn more art techniques, that later helped him advance in his art work. He was always surrounded by creativity, even his brother Joseph Delaney was an aspiring painter. His family of 12 were hardworking people who faced much hardship. His mother was even a slave, and the Delaneys often faced intense racism. Causing only four of the children

One of his major works was the beginning of the Migration of the Negro or better known as “The migration series”. This is a 60 -panel painting that depicted the life of the Southern Negros migrating the urban cities in the North in the 1900’s straight up to world war l in search of work. The migration series had many pieces to it; however the cohesiveness of this work made it into a mural-like piece of art. This series of painting captured the

     Thomas Eakins was born on July 25, 1844, in Philadelphia, and with the exception of four years of study in Paris and Spain, the city remained his home. Its school, public and private art collections, and community of artists, many of whom were recent emigrants from Europe trained in the academic tradition and familiar with new artistic styles, provided Eakins with an unusually wide-ranging art education for an American artist of his day.

After being a drill sergeant in Alaska for twenty years he was inspired by the landscape and wanted to start painting what he saw. At first he started painting on pots and stuff like that and sell them for money. But later on he started painting on canvases. PBS saw what potential he had and gave him a show. He also gave lessons and sold art supplies.

in the year of 1785. He had studied art with Edward Savage in New York from 1800-

Thomas Buchanan Read was born on March 12th, 1822 in Corner Ketch, Pennsylvania. Read only received an elementary school education and his father had a sudden death, which led Read to become an apprentice to a local tailor. The apprenticeship wasn’t so great either, it lead to a bad relationship containing abuse and cruelty. Luckily for Read the apprenticeship was very short lived. At the age of fifteen, Read started working in Philadelphia as a tobacconist and a grocer. Read also started to live in Cincinnati with his sister. In Cincinnati, Read took apprenticeship under Shobal Veil Clevenger. He learned to paint signs and learned sculpting through Clevenger.

Born in Ireland and immigrated to the United States of America in Philadelphia, still life Artist William Michael Harnett began his professional career as an engraver for high-end firms at Woods & Hughes as well as Tiffany & Co in the late 1860s and early 1870s. In addition to his history of employment, he attended the nation’s most prominent schools at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the National Academy of Design, and the Cooper Union for Advancement of Science and Art where he studied after antique casts and live models. Exercising his talents in oil painting, Harnett was widely known for his magnificent still life masterpieces.

Martin Wong was born in, Portland Oregon and raised in Chinatown district of San Francisco. He studied ceramics at Humboldt State University. He graduated in 1968. Through college, he was active in the San Francisco Bay Area art scene. In 1978, he moved to Manhattan, settling in the Lower East Side, where his attention turned exclusively to painting. Wong made ceramics, and did drawings at art fairs, he was also known as the Human Instamatics. In August 1999, he died.

Hugues Merle (1823-1881) was a talented French painter during the middle of the nineteenth-century who fit into the impressionist category as he painted “sweet and tender genre themes” (Schiller & Bodo). He was born in Saint-Marcellin and eventually moved to Paris. While in Paris, he became a student of Léon Cogniet at the Ecole-des-Beaux-Arts and began to exhibit his work at the Salon in 1847. By 1859, his reputation as a painter of portraits and biblical themes made him popular among American collectors. In 1861 and 1863, he was awarded second-class medals and in 1866, he was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Merle painted a range of subjects, including historical anecdotes, allegories, and rural genre scenes such as those of mothers and children. His works were compared to Bouguereau since he painted childhood innocence and maternal affection so well (Schiller &