Claude Lorrain

works of Claude Lorrain (1600-82) have shifted over the past three centuries, to present-day scholars, the artist is nonetheless regarded as a father of classical landscape painting. Largely recognized for his sprawling scenes of nature meeting old-world civilization, the artist masterfully juxtaposes timeless natural scenes with figures and architecture that evoke a sense of classical antiquity. While mythological themes would have been in step with the motif trends of his era, Lorrain distinguishes

evolved in color and style. As the Baroque era incorporated stories and modern landscape photography focuses on color and subject, landscape artistry has changed as new movements of art and history occur. A proposed exhibition of landscapes includes Claude Lorrain’s Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba, Van Gogh’s Long Grass with Butterflies, Paul Nash’s Totes Meer (Dead Sea), and Ainsley Bennett’s Binary Haze. The works could be used in order to understand of how the portrayal of landscapes

Shane Cratty A Beautiful Day on the River Seine April 17th, 2012 Art 1.2 Section 4136 On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt by the French painter Claude Monet is one of the few great paintings that truly embody Impressionism. On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt was painted in 1868 on the Seine River in the Northwestern Portion of France. Created with oil on canvas and standing at thirty-two inches tall by thirty-nine and two-thirds inches wide, this painting depicts Monet’s future wife,

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. Aside from the calm nature and the tender layout of his works, his paintings almost always focused more women. “They provided him with his most potent source of inspiration are at the center of the idyllic

This paper will discuss various elements of mise-en-scene, specifically; character development, lighting, performance, costume, makeup in the film "Casablanca".(Michael Curtiz,1942) The setting of the story sets the tone for the entire film. Shots of tanks and planes show the violence of war that coincides with the cutthroat city that is Casablanca. From there, those sentiments are reinforced when a man is shot in the street while another man pick pockets someone whom is distracted. The mood of the

Over the course of this assignment; I have discovered much about myself. Likewise, I probably would not have learned this much about myself or my career, had I not taken this course. Such as how I have found my personality group through Human metrics; which presented that I was within the INFJ grouping (Jung, 1998). I was also able to learn much more about the career that I may be pursuing in the future, as well as the people in the field similar to it. The Jungian personality test showed that my

The Barnes Foundation’s newest exhibition, French Photography 1800-1960, is a collection of photographs that encapsulates life in France during the 19th and 20th centuries. The exhibit features photographs by artists including Ilse Bing, Brassai, and Henri Cartier Bresson. Entering into the exhibit is like taking a trip through time; depending on if you turn left or right at the entrance to the exhibit, you can travel forward through time from the early to the mid 1900s or you can travel backwards

Terrasse à Sainte-Adresse Among the impressionists, Claude Monet was the best landscape master. His favorite themes were the sea and the flowers. His painting “Terrasse à Sainte-Adresse” was made in his early creative period in 1867. This painting represents themes of beautiful flowers and bright sun. “Terrasse à Sainte-Adresse” is a hymn to the sun, which impressionists considered as the creator of any color. In the mid-1860s Monet experimented with painting landscapes, which has led to some picturesque

Born in Paris in 1840, Claude Monet would later become a leading artist in the Impressionist era. At a young age, Monet had a passion for nature and art and in 1859, Monet began to study art in Paris. Here he met many artists such as Bazille, Sisley, and Renoir. Monet practiced painting en plein air or moving from inside the studios to painting outside in the open. Embodying the Impressionist era in 1873, Monet painted "Impression, Sunrise”, showing many characteristics that define Impressionism

“Realist”). Despite this confliction, every impressionist painter shared a similar dedication to painting contemporary subjects in an informal style. In the face of this commitment impressionists still were divided into two principle camps. Led by Claude Monet and including Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley and sometimes Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the “Pure” Impressionists painted out-of-doors, recording their impulsive reactions to light and atmosphere. The