The Horse Fair And Great Blue Horses, By Rosa Bonheur

While the painters after the Impressionism period were collectively called the “Post-Impressionists,” the label is quite reductive. Each artist had their own unique style, from Seurat’s pointillism to Signac’s mosaic-like divisionism, Cezanne, Émile Bernard, and others. These artists were all connected in that they were reacting to the aesthetics of Impressionism. Two of the more influential painters from this movement were Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, who aimed to connect with viewers on a deeper level by access Nature’s mystery and meaning beyond its superficial, observable level. However, each artist’s approach to achieving this goal was different. In close examination of Vincent van Gogh’s Self-Portrait (Dedicated to Paul Gauguin) and Paul Gauguin’s Self-Portrait with Portrait of Émile Bernard (Les misérables), one may clearly see the two artists’ contrasting styles on display.

Their individual perspectives in life ultimately shaped their education, experiences and overall point of view. This essay will outline the similarities and differences in subject matter, tone and imagery of these two artists’ bodies of work.

John Grady Cole, the last in a long line of west Texas ranchers, is, at sixteen, poised on the sorrowful, painful edge of manhood. When he realizes the only life he has ever known is disappearing into the past and that cowboys are as doomed as the Comanche who came before them, he leaves on a dangerous and harrowing journey into the beautiful and utterly foreign world that is Mexico. In the guise of a classic Western, All the Pretty Horses is at its heart a lyrical and elegiac coming-of-age story about love, friendship, and loyalty that will leave John Grady, and the reader, changed forever. When his mother decides to sell the cattle ranch he has grown up working, John Grady Cole and his friend Lacey Rawlins

Literary and commercial fiction are the two types of fiction that Authors all over the world present to readers. Commercial fiction always entertains readers and this is the point, to provide a story that anyone can enjoy. Literary fiction does not offer a clear way for one to understand and literary fiction is not created to be understood. Literary fiction makes readers do all the work and find meanings all by oneself. It is vital to be able to determine a literary work from a commercial one to fully grasp a work and the methods to determining one from another is easier than one thinks.

All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy is a coming of age novel centered around the protagonist, John Grady Cole as he ventures to Mexico to pursue his ideal life. The exact moment in which John Grady Cole’s character changes irrevocably, and truly comes of age, is when he stabs another prisoner in the heart while in prison in Mexico. In that moment, his youth and innocence fall away, and he gains the kind of understanding of the world that can only come when one becomes a man. In the beginning of the novel, John Grady Cole is stubborn with the foolish optimism of youth; he thinks he can run a ranch and make enough money to sustain him and his mother, and he runs away to Mexico to pursue his ideal life as a cowboy. By the end of the

McCarthy, Cormac. All the Pretty Horses. Fiction I selected it because the title looked more interesting than the other titles. 'All The Pretty Horses' by Cormac McCarthy tells the tale of a boy (John Grady) who's grandfather dies so he runs away from with his friend Rawlins after Grady's mother attempts to sell their ranch in Texas. They meet a another boy on their way to Mexico, Jimmy Blevins. They become separated from Blevins after a lightning storm. John Grady and Rawlins find work on a Mexican ranch, where Grady is in charge of breeding the horses.Grady falls in love with Don Hector's daughter, Alejandra. When Don Hector finds out about the affair between his daughter and Grady, Don Hector turns the boys in to the police captain in the

Cormac McCarthy is a man who holds few interviews. Even today, he is known as one of the world’s greatest, most prolific authors though most of his personal opinions are left unreported. In a rare interview with a New York Times journalist, McCarthy says the philosophical words: “There's no such thing as life without bloodshed” completely revealing the coveted theme of his novel, All the Pretty Horses. Considering the amount of violence that manifests itself in the book; Blevins’ murder, the prison fight, and the gunfight between John Grady and the ranch workers; all of which results from Grady’s pursuit of a peaceful life, the theme McCarthy wished to broadcast, a theme of inescapable violence, was true in its delivery.

We have all felt that wonderful feeling of riding a horse. But, have you ever seen what happens behind the scenes? Well in the passage, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse by Anna Sewell, it is in the horse's point of view. The author develops this idea by describing what the horse does it gets saddled up. Also in the passage, The Georges and the Jewels by Jane Smiley, the author describes what life is like when riding a horse. It develops the point of view of the reader by showing what the main character is doing. Both of these articles develop the point of view by describing the actions, and what the reader is doing throughout the story

The Blue Boy, (1770) by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) oil on canvas. The Blue Boy was first attempt at a full length Van Dyck dress and Gainsborough’s control of paint and mastery of his brushwork brought people flocking to it. I personally want to see this piece because it’s famous and who doesn’t want to see and study a painting like this up close and in

Her realistic depictions of animals elevated their status as subject matter on a grandiose scale of history painting. Sympathetic to their cause, and clearly identifying with them on a personal level, Bonheur was successful in portraying their significance by visualizing their importance within the narrative of humankind. At a time when a woman painter was not typically elevated to equal status of men in power, she as an artist retained the faculty of seeing and depicting, and therefore contributing to the chronicle of

drawing and art and during her education she developed her own style. Also she was one of the

Dozens of horses are charging through the fair grounds, each hoof vibrating the ground, which causes chaos to erupt. Some horses are white as for a person of royalty, and others a mysterious brown. Through all this chaos, Rosa Bonheur paints what is before her. Her painting is called The Horse Fair. The painting itself is 8 feet tall by 16 feet wide.1 The Horse Fair is located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.1 Bonheur uses a panoramic view in her painting.2 The Horse Fair was inspired by the horse market that Rosa Bonheur use to visit on Boulevard De l’Ho ̂pital.1 The building in the upper far left of the painting is called Asylum on Salpetriere, which is located in Paris.3 The people on the hill in the

Surrealism was a 20th century art movement whose proponents dedicated themselves to translating their unconscious into art objects. In this essay I will argue that the cultural work accomplished by Giorgio de Chirico’s Piazza d’Italia and his metaphysical painting style is to be precursors of the surrealism movement, whether de Chirico likes it or not. The metaphysical painting style is similar in form to the “dream-transcription” sub-category of surrealist painting, as well as similar in subject matter (D’Souza). Although de Chirico came to dislike his early career paintings and surrealism, foundational surrealists such as André Breton and Paul Éluard were known to collect and admire his early work (Holman). Breton even declared de Chirico to be a “signpost pointing to surrealism” (“CHIRICO”).

Mannerism and Realism are two periods in the history of art that did not born by themselves but were part of a greater movement or originate because they do not accept the convention of the previous movement. In these essay the main artists from these two movement will be compared in order to show how art has changed over three centuries of world changes. The first artist that will be analyzed is El Greco from Mannerism and the second one is Gustave Courbet, a representative of Realism. An interesting fact about these two artist is that even though they lived in different epochs they have chosen the same theme for one of their paintings and this allows to a more detailed comparison in order to see how the historical context and the movements

Throughout the course, we have learned about different types of modern works. The beauty of learning the history behind them is to better understand how from one form of painting grows from the other. In this case, impressionist and symbolist works have followed each other in terms of popularity and yet have extremely different aesthetics. Using the paintings, Dance at Le moulin de la Galette (Bal du moulin de la Galette) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir and The Eye like a Strange Balloon Mounts toward Infinity (L'Œil, comme un ballon bizarre se dirige vers l'infini)