Gustave Moreau

Even though Eros serves as a backup character to many different myths, he also has his own myth, that so happens to be one of my favorites. In the popular Cupid and Psyche myth, Aphrodite becomes very jealous when rumors go around saying Psyche is much more beautiful than her. She then sends Cupid to make her fall in love with someone ugly, but when he lays his eyes on her he instantly falls in love. He makes sure that she is brought to his palace and every night he would go visit her to make love

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

African Art of the 20th century portrays historic paintings, sculptures, visual arts from African natives or the people who live on the African continent itself. Visual culture has been the major part of the African Art. Many of the African sculptures of many people have been portrayed in wooden masks. African art takes many structures and created using a wide range of materials such as wood, ceramic, stone, mud, etc. The African art are from many different parts of Africa that include Muslim art

Georgia Tassos FAS 202 Dr Lori Shipley 21st, October 2015 Comparing Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner Sur L’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) to Henri Matisse’s Le Bonheur de Vivre (The Joy of Life): An Essay Pastoral and country settings are featured in countless paintings that hang in museums across the world, however, not many of them were as rule-breaking, revolutionary, and inspiring at their initial exhibitions as Édouard Manet’s (ca. 1832 - 1883) Le Déjeuner Sur L’herbe (1862 – 1863) and Henri Matisse’s

Artistic productions of the 20th century thrived on blurring sexual boundaries, as well as anatomy and embodied social identity. Approaching art by caring about sexual differences does not necessarily indicate that there is a ‘masculine’ or a ‘feminine’ art, but rather show how the notion of gender is perceived by the artist himself. The Art Nouveau style bloomed during the Belle Époque era where women where conceived as inspirers to the art but never as artists themselves. The Art nouveau was then

Postimpressionism Postimpressionism was a movement in late-19th-century French painting that emphasized the artist's personal response to a subject. Postimpressionism takes its name from an art movement that immediately preceded it: Impressionism. But whereas impressionist painters concentrated on the depiction of a subject's immediate appearance, postimpressionists focused on emotional or spiritual meanings that the subject might convey. Although impressionist artists interpreted what they saw