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the true nature of emotion through it. School was hard for Rodin because he had a hard time reading, but he took interest in drawing. He started taking art classes when he turned 13. This is when students and teachers gave him no recognition on his art and Rodin started doubting himself. At 17 years old, he applied

In the 19th century Greek art and architecture was in vogue because of Lord Elgin buying/taking marble friezes from the temple of Athena Parthenon in the beginning of the century. Combined with the first democratic nation in a few millennia being founded, the popularity of Greek

Born on 8th of December 1861 in Paris, France as Marie Georges Jean Méliès, George was a particularly interested child in the arts. At a young age, he went to the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris where George showed a specific interest in design and puppetry. In 1882, George went to London to study and while there, developed a keen interest in the arts after witnessing the work of Maskelyne and Cooke. On George’s return from London, he worked at his father’s shoe repairing factory, soon becoming the

M. Gilbert, a manufacturer of blinds. In 1860 he became a student of Charles Gleyre and enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In April, 1864 he came out 10th of 106th candidates in a sculpture and drawing examination there. Initially influenced by the Barbizon School, once he had come

Plan of Champ de Mars, Paris 1889 This is a twenty-six by forty-eight centimeter plan of the Champ de Mars during the Exposition Universelle of 1889, used by visitors at the time of the fair, a bold political statement on the part of France, as well as an overwhelming success. The Third Republic was established in Paris in 1870, and by 1884, when preliminary studies for the the Exposition Universelle were launched, many political issues were still largely unresolved. In 1870 Napoleon III surrendered

The modernism period was a time for art to search for a new form of expression. It was a movement in western art which had develops in the middle of the 19th century and tried to capture the pictures and sensibilities of the age. Modernism art expand way beyond simply dealing with the present and involves the critical examination from the artist masterpieces. Modernism advance a era of testing in the arts from the mid 19th to the mid-20th century, coming after World War I. in the era where it

more years. Then at the age of 15 he left his studies. Vincent's two uncles and his younger brothers are art dealers and the inflounced Vincent greatly. Vincent also became an art dealer for seven more years. Then he move to London and visited many art galleries and museums. In autumn of 1880, after more than a year living as a pauper in the Borinage, Vincent left for Brussels to begin his art studies. Then in1881 Vincent

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, whose full name is Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupéry, was born on June 29, 1900 in Lyon, France (Encyclopædia Britannica). He was an aristocratic French writer, poet, and pioneering aviator. Saint-Exupéry came from a poor aristocratic family and spent his childhood years surrounded by sisters, aunts, cousins, and nurses. He failed the entrance examination to the École Navale, the French naval academy, then enrolled at a prestigious art school

beside Claude Monet. But in this composition we will talk more about Claude Monet because he was the founder of Impressionism in the world. Oscar Claude Monet was the founder of impressionism. He is a famous french painter whose work gave a name to the art movement impressionism. Claude Monet’s famous quote is “merely think here is a little square of blue, here an oblong (having an elongated shape, as a rectangle or an oval) of pink, here a streak of yellow and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact

Part Three: The New Urbanists: Andres Duany & Lion Krier New Urbanism began in the Unites States of America in the 1980s, and with time turned into a noteworthy impact on many components of land improvement, urban arranging and metropolitan land utilize procedures. It is characterized to be a development indorsing ecological well disposed propensities by producing easy-circulated neighborhoods incorporating an assortment of lodging and occupations. The development was impacted by urban plan hones