Brock Wright
November 1, 2017
ARHS 1020
Lucia Abramovich
Woman with a Hat Analysis Woman with a Hat is an oil on canvas painting by Henri Matisse, created in 1905. The painting is considered one of the first ever Fauvist works, and was displayed at the Salon d’Automne in Paris, an exhibit which defined the movement. Matisse was a French artist who had actually worked in several mediums, but was most famous for his paintings. He was born in Le Cateau-Cambresis, Northern France, in 1869. He first began painting in 1889 with a small assortment of paintings supplies his mother had gifted him during a period when he was recovering from illness. He joined Gustave Moreau, who would become an inspirational leader for Matisse’s Fauvist movement, at his studio in 1891. In 1896, Matisse began working with an Australian impressionist painter John Peter Russell, who Matisse would credit as having taught him color theory. Russel introduced him to impressionism and the works of Vincent van Gogh; Matisse’s relationship with Russell would drastically evolve his painting style. Matisse’s early work took influence from neo-impressionism, post-impressionism, and divisionism, a style which Matisse took up after reading Paul Signac’s essay D'Eugène Delacroix au Néo-impressionisme. Exploration of these styles would influence his movement into the revolutionary style of Fauvism. Fauvism emphasized painterly qualities and strong, vibrant color choices. It emphasized these qualities over
Red Scarf Girl is a historical memoir written by Ji-li Jang about her experiences during the cultural revolution of China, with a foreword by David Henry Hwand Red Scarf Girl, Ji-li was at the top of her class and the da-dui-zhang, or Student Council President, of her school. However, her father prevents her from auditioning for the Central Liberation Army Arts Academy due to their political status, which she had no knowledge of at the time. Her family is considered a "Black Family", because her grandfather was a land lord and her father was considered a "rightist", (though her father reassured her that he is not). Many people accuse Ji-li of her family's old ways, or "Four Olds" and the "Five Black catagory" that Chairman Mao Zedong
The painting Square at La Trinité (Le Square de La Trinité) (1875) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir is located at the RISD museum in Providence, RI. This is an oil painting on canvas, surrounded by an ornate gold frame. Square at La Trinité is a pastel colored landscape scene with nature, figures and buildings in the background. The main focus of the painting is the two people in the right-hand corner, one a female and the other a male who are strolling through a lively garden. During the 19th century impressionist artists wanted to capture life as they saw it happening. Another artist who had a similar style to Renoir was Monet who painted works such as Beach at Trouville (1870) where he painted his wife sitting on the beach taking part in middle-class leisure. Renoir’s work demonstrates the impressionist technique important to the 19th century, evident by the way he captured middle class leisure in a modern subject matter.
One of the unique parts of the ‘Seated Woman’ painting is the style that is presented by Picasso. Made mainstream in the art world by Picasso and fellow artist Georges Braque, cubism is the
Impressionism can be considered the first distinctly modern movement in painting. Developing in Paris in the 1860s, its influence spread throughout Europe and eventually the United States. Impressionism was a style of representational art that did not necessarily rely on realistic depictions. The Impressionists loosened their brushwork and lightened their palettes to include pure, intense colors.
The article, “Looking at Women” by Scott Russell Sanders published in The Norton Reader, 13th edition, embarks on a journey to find out why men look at women. Sanders starts off with his personal encounter as adolescence were he was told not to look at women out of lustful desire, because women would not want to be stared at like that. He also wondered from his early college days, were his bunkmate had pictures of nude women and he and others would endlessly stir at these pictures. Sanders questions whether women enjoy being looked at by men and how should men look at women. He uses quotes from people and facts to find answers to these questions. He also analyses the problem from global perspective. He wonders why women try so hard to look good. He concludes with the fact that women like looking good, but they sometimes don't like it when men stare at them. Sanders opines in his thesis that " to be turned into an object – whether by the brush of a painter or the lens of a photographer or the eye of a voyeur, whether by hunger or poverty or enslavement, by mugging or rape, bullets or bombs, by hatred, racism, car crashes, fires, or falls – is for each of us the deepest dread; and to reduce another person to an object is the primal wrong” (188).
Henri Matisse was known as the Fauvists leader due to his work of pure colors and bright lights. In 1906, he traveled to Africa and was inspired by the sculpture art. One of his best known works are the Back relief and Large Seated Nude. His work reflected the different body shape of African woman. In 1907, The Blue Nude is a series of paintings that was inspired
The medium the artist used was oil on canvas. The artwork was vibrant colors with bold patterns. The artist was very precise with the variety of lines he used. He mostly used his brush to create the artwork. The period of Woman in a Purple Coat is expressionism because in the artwork he expressed himself through the contrast, expressive colors and confidence it reflected as she is portrayed sitting. The genre for Woman in a Purple Coat is portrait because it portrays Matisse’s assistant and companion Lydia Delectorskaya.
“They would beat you. They would make you feel like they would cause you yourself or your family harm. Another thing, some of the girls don’t have anywhere to go (Victims, 2011).” Keisha Head works as an anti-human trafficking advocate, but that was not always the case. She was once a victim to this cold and unforgiving way of life that many people simply call “prostitution.” It has been said by the ignorant that prostitutes must enjoy their line of work, as sex is generally considered pleasurable. However, Keisha tells another story. “I became numb to what I was doing. I guess that’s the survival instinct,” she says. Another woman who escaped the life preferred to remain anonymous, but her statement is profound. “I was hoping that I would
“Carefully, my parents chose my name: Ji-li, meaning lucky and beautiful. They hoped that I would be the happiest girl in the world.
Picasso was working on Gertrude’s portrait (Fig. 2) at the time he and Matisse first met. The sensation Matisse’s painting created, made it difficult for Picasso to
The story "A Respectable Woman" by Kate Chopin’s explore the live of Mrs. Mrs. Baroda, a lady from a high class and her husband Gaston who lived in a sugar plantation in Louisiana. The story hinges upon defining what a respectable woman is and should be. She captures in details the role of a traditional woman towards the creation of a modern women behavior and the challenges they face as they transition into modernity.
Matisse was influenced by Cézanne's method of analyzing and pulling apart his subject matter. Like Paul Cézanne, Matisse believed that everything could be broken down into simple shapes and painted that way (Matisse, Bonheur de Vivre, n.d.). In Bonheur de Vivre the broken down figures accurately represent the human form and living scenery. The figures in The Large Bathers emit a feeling of calm while the scene depicted in Bonheur de Vivre is a place full of life and love and freedom. Unlike the paintings by Cézanne, Matisse's work does not depict forms that recede in the background and diminish in scale. In Bonheur de Vivre, the scale of the figures in the foreground and the middle ground is badly skewed (Matisse, Bonheur de Vivre, n.d). Matisse brought exploration of vision through space by incorporating shifting perspectives. As a result, the viewer relates differently to the painting and is required to "enter" the scene. Matisse's painting is perhaps the first canvas to actually further the elder master’s ideas.
Modernism is an art movement that is characterized by a deliberate departure from tradition to a more expressive form that distinguishes many styles in the arts and literature of the late nineteenth and twentieth century. Emile Bernard was part of this modern art movement as can be seen in his painting, "Breton Woman and Haystacks", painted around 1888. Impressionists were modern artists who tended to paint outside landscapes and street scenes and were concerned with the effects of light. Bernard was a Post-Impressionist artist who considered Impressionism too casual or too naturalistic, and sought a means of exploring emotion in paint. Bernard's work, "Breton Woman and Haystacks", depicts a woman in
Impressionism as an historical art period is best described as a shift in thinking and focus. This paradigm shift, away from realism and toward individualism, began a centuries long transformation of self-expression in art as a whole. Impressionism is generally considered a French movement and is typically defined as spanning from approximately 1867 to 1886. Impressionism is best embodied by and was perhaps initiated by Claud Monet in such world-renowned works as Impressions: soleil levant which lent its name to the style and subsequently the art period as a whole.
The artist of this painting was named Vincent van Gogh and he was born on the 30th of March in 1853. He was known to be a self-taught painter of the post-impressionist style. Post-impressionism was used to describe the development of French art since Manet. Vincent van Gogh artist style was to practice the uses of bright colors, distinctive brush strokes, thick application of paint, and unwavering subject matter about the realities of life in this masterpiece. Vincent van Gogh found his place in art and produced emotional and visually attractive paintings over the course of a career that lasted about a decade.