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and Louise-Josephine Dunas were of modest means and lived in the working class of Montparnasse. He began studying about engraving in 1872. In the evening he took courses of engraving after training as a wood carver at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs at the age of fourteen. That apprenticeship with that wood engraver lasted for three years.Maximilien Luce entered a engraver shop and began working at the studio of the engraver Eugène Froment where he made woodcut prints.The following

John Singer Sargent, an American artist, is regarded as the greatest portrait painter of the early 1900’s. Sargent, like many prominent artists, was exposed to art at a young age. He was encouraged by both parents, who were artist themselves, to draw. This led to his acceptance into École des Beaux-Art School at the age of eighteen. There he was able to study under great artists of that time and his new found love for portraits birthed his career. Sargent paintings often broke the traditional sense

Suffering is felt by all humans, humans sometimes awknowledge it and other times it’s ignored. In the poem, “Museé des Beaux Arts,” written by W.H. Auden and the painting, “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus,” painted by Pieter Breughel the Elder, Icarus can be seen throughout the two works. In the poem, Auden describes about human suffering and how the elders life differentiate from a child. Moreover, the painting showcases a city’s daily life and how Icarus’s fall does not seem to bother any one

reflected light.” Impressionist painting comprises the works of art produced between about 1867 and 1886 by a group of artists that shared related techniques and approaches to art. The title ‘Impressionism’ originated from the influence of Claude Monet and his famous painting, Impression Sunrise. This movement

In 1880-1884, Van Gogh decided to pursue art. He started by applying for study at the Ecole des Beaux-Art in Brussels at age 27. Sadly, he was reject from the art school but continued drawings lessons on his own. Without any proper training, or even having open artistic talent, Gogh doubted his abilities, and was supported in this doubt by his parents. However, Theo continued to push Vincent forward and supported him financially. As a 27 year, old Van Gogh moved back in with his parents while studying

Interior Decorators such as Elsie de Wolfe, Eleanor McMillen Brown, and Dorothy Draper helped to pave the way for the Interior Design profession today. Their influential decisions to stray away from the Victorian style of design helped guide both the interior decorating profession, as well as architects who no longer wanted to design in the bulky and cluttered Victorian Style. Elsie de Wolfe designed during the Victorian movement, however “had adopted the 1890’s preference for Neoclassicism” (Smith

milliner before getting married. A man painting in a crematory and his mother’s suicide in 1912 influenced Magritte’s progress as an artist. Magritte painted to find comfort from his mother’s death. In 1916, he left home and studied art at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels for the next two years. Although he was not interested in his classes, he became friends with Victor Servranckx, who taught Magritte the three styles: Futurism, Cubism, and Purism. Then, in 1921, he joined the

hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.” Nearly his whole life’s work was devoted to uncovering what was seen by the eye. His work gave a new perspective to many daily things, and helped to popularize a new style of art, surrealism. René Magritte was born on November 21, 1898 in Lessines, Belgium. He was the the oldest of three boys in a well-off family. Two major events influenced his career as an artist. The first was when he and a friend saw a painting in a cemetery

Fine Arts” which is a museum that after some research, Auden allegedly visited and soon wrote this poem. I would infer, that the imagery present in the poem are allusions to the artwork that he saw while at the Musee Des Beaux Arts. These works of art is first alluded to when Auden references “The Old Masters” (2) who are famous painters such as Goya, da Vinci, Raphael, and Tintoretto. These are famous artists from the 16th-18th century that were highly skilled and created famous works of art. The

connections in the literature to reveal their opinion about the people around them. The story “There Will Come Soft Rains” (Ray Bradbury), and the two poems about the Greek myth of Icarus, “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” (W.C. Williams), and “Musee de Beaux” (W.H. Auden), all illustrates each author thoughts about society. Every author expresses their opinion differently while connecting it to the themes and their purpose of the story. In literature, authors communicate to society by expressing their