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artist; he was a painter, sculptor, stonemason, and musician. Ingres’ first teacher in the arts was his father, who encouraged him in drawing and music. In 1786, he started studying at the local school, l’École des Frères de l’Education Chretienne. Unfortunately, the school was closed in 1791 due to the French Revolution. The same year, Ingres’ father took him to Toulouse, where he enrolled in the Academie Royale de Peinture, Sculpture, et Architecture. There he studied under the sculptor Jean-Pierre

the École des Beaux-Arts school in Paris, France. At the École des Beaux-Arts Marquet was under the tutelage of the famous painter Gustave Moreau. In addition to mastering his craft through Moreau’s instruction, Marquet befriended young artists Henri Matisse and Georges Rouault. As Marquet and Matisse aged, their style of artwork became extremely vibrant and bold in regard to their choices of color and contrasting tones. Eventually, in 1905, Marquet and Matisse could exhibit their art work at the

that Ariana seems to experience as a silent statue. Because Ariana has to remain silent, she perhaps feels a sense of confinement (underscored by Chirico’s use of dark colors and shadows) in her situation of immobility. W.H. Auden’s poem, “Musee Des Beaux Arts,” explores humanity’s indifference to other people’s hardships. The first half of Auden’s poem demonstrates examples of Auden’s observations from Pieter Brueghel paintings. In the first stanza, Auden mentions that “for the miraculous birth, there

BIOGRAPHICAL CONTEXT Georges Seurat was born on December 2, 1859 and lived until March 29, 1891. Georges Seurat studied at Ecole Municipale de Sculpture et Dessin, then in 1878 he moved went to Ecole des Beaux-Arts. After Ecole des Beaux-Arts, he went to a conventional training academy. He left Ecole des Beaux-Arts in November of 1879 to go into the military. After his service, he came back to Paris and shared a studio with Aman-Jean. He then had a relationship with Madeleine Knobloch, who he often

myth. Another interpretation of the legend Icarus is a poem written by W.H. Auden called, Musée des Beaux Arts. This infamous fable was about a young adventurous boy falling to his death while escaping prison with his father, using waxed wings. This two main interpretations have the same theme in mind, humans tend to ignore situations if they are not applied to them. In the poem, Musée des Beaux Arts, the poem shows how people will neglect anything bad if it doesn’t pertain to them. The speaker

and at the age of 18 entered the School of Arts and Crafts in Craiova and graduated in 1898. He then studied sculpture at the Bucharest Art School until 1902. His Ecorché, or flayed nude, executed in 1902, is such an accurate study of the male anatomy that it is still used at the medical school in Bucharest. Brancusi enrolled at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1904, where he studied with Antonin Mercié. But Brancusi was drawn to the innovative art of Auguste Rodin, from whom he learned that

people may perceive or “see” things differently. Henry David Thoreau quotes that “The question is not what you look at, but what you see”. In the poems “We grow accustomed to the Dark” and “Before I got my eye put out” by Emily Dickinson and “Musée des Beaux Arts” by W.H. Auden, the authors share the idea that our vision reflects the true beauty of the world. Through the eyes of people, The poem “Before I got my eye put out” portrays the idea that most living things are unable to recognize the

Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune rebellion. When Seurat was a little boy he began to take interest in art and was encouraged by his uncle, Paul Haumonte, who is a textile dealer and amateur painter. ("The Art Story.org - Your Guide to Modern Art") When Seurat was fifthteen, he entered a local drawing school then three years later he went to Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris from 1878-1879 to study art.

is necessary to focus on achieving their own successes, and once they are successful, they then can take a step back and be concerned about other people. This is best shown through Jack Gilbert’s “A Brief for the Defense”, W.H. Auden’s “Mussée des Beaux Arts”, and Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an

iconic lion statues that stand guard in front of this opulent building that serves as the flagship branch of the public library system in New York. Since 1911, Patience and Fortitude, the name given to the statues, have graced the entrance of the Beaux Art building. The lions have long become the represent the prestige of one of New York City's premiere intellectual, and cultural institution in New York City. This paper seeks