Henri Christophe

This art influenced a vast majority of modern day art. Pablo Picasso’s cubism and Henri Matisse fauvism helped shape this era not only in style of painting, but a revolution against conformity of a social artistic structure. Cubism was a style of painting imagined, created, and performed by Pablo Picasso.

effort to create a more meaningful understanding, as well a deeper appreciation, of the nuances, techniques, and design choices employed in these attempts, a comparison will be made between Edouard Vuillard’s Interior With a Screen (1909-1910) and Henri Matisse’s Blue Nude (Souvenir of Biskra) (1907). In this essay, each artist’s approach to the subject of the female nude will be closely analyzed, compared, and contrasted, as will their styles of painting, handling of visual elements, and their use

The solo exhibition of a renowned French artist Henri Matisse (1869–1954) - “Matisse in the Studio”, is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Royal Academy of Arts, London in partnership with the Musée Matisse, Nice. The exhibition presents a selection of major works by Matisse from different periods of his career—including approximately 34 paintings, 26 drawings, 11 bronzes, seven cut-outs and three prints, and an illustrated book that bring them to life. The show is organized

The art world changed in the 20th century when Henri lived. He helped define and influence radical contemporary. He also was a French artist that was known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was known primarily as a painter but also as a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor. Even though he was labelled a Fauve by the 1920s, he was hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting. His mastery of expressing language in colour and drawing. It was

In “The Story of an Hour”, Kate Chopin, the author, tells the story of a woman who feels that she has lost her personal freedom because of her marriage. After learning of her husband’s sudden passing, Mrs. Mallard does not feel loneliness and despair, as one would expect. Instead, Mrs. Mallard begins to feel that she may be free from her husband. “There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself” (Chopin 533). Mrs. Mallard will be able to make her own choices

The rich raspberry red blanketed over the canvas is more than enough to entice it’s viewers. The Red Room, made by Henri Matisse in 1908 is and has been a highly popular piece of artwork. The art piece captured what it meant to be a fauvist artist with its bright colors and unrealistic appearance. Matisse and other fauvist artists decided to go against what society decided was normal at the time and succeeded. My recreation of the Red Room uses the same intensity of color, line, shape, form, texture

Georgia O'Keeffe is a 20th century American painter and pioneer of American modernism best known for her canvases depicting flowers, animal skulls and southeastern landscapes. Georgia was born on November 15, 1887, on a wheat farm in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York. Alfred Stieglitz gave O'Keeffe her first gallery show with her early artworks in 1916 as time grew between them, so did love, and the couple married in 1924. After

Clarissa Dalloway - A Modernist Conceived Character Modernism in European literature developed highly between the 1900 and 1920 although its beginning is often associated with Virginia Woolf’s statement that human nature went through a fundamental change "on or about December 1910."(Woolf, 1966: 319). Modernism is generally characterized by a brake with the traditional writing, a desire for experimental literary form and a way of expressing “the new sensibilities of their time” (Childs, 2008:

Henri Bergson believes “mechanical inelasticity” (Bergson ) is essential to laughter. In Chaplin’s movie Modern Times, there are many illustrations of such technique that not only composes humorous but also contribute to its theme—capitalists exploit low social status workers.After giving the very basic elements of laughter:—lack of emotions, connection to human traits, relationship to social context —Bergson introduces mechanical inelasticity as the main cause of his main idea regard to laughter

Art in general is a form of expression. Individuals use art to express emotions, passion, or make a statement. Society can have an impact on how an artist chooses to express his or her sentiments. The beauty of it all is that interpretation is what makes art so unique. The same piece of art can mean so many different things due to who is looking at it. Just like everything else, art changes with time. There has been different eras in art that have impacted society as we know it. The Gilded