Montmartre

Not only was Degas’s subject matter contemporary, but his choice of medium and artistic techniques was also distinctly modern. The scene that is captured by Degas shows a group of women sitting outside of a small café on the crowded Boulevard Montmartre. While the women are sitting in a clustered grouping, there is a sense of human alienation and isolation, all existing within a sphere of intense

Some of the greatest totalitarian leaders before Hitler’s time looted art such as Napoleon the past emperor over the french. One of the most grueling actions Hitler took during World War II was the looting of art. Hitler stole art for his own selfish reasons and, it was the brave Monuments Men who helped restore and recover the missing artwork before the invasion of the axis powers although a lot of the work was lost during the war. It is estimated that over 650,000 pieces, one fifth of Europe’s

Impressionism is an art movement which was developed in Paris in the 1860s which continued to the early twentieth century. In impressionism, artists have captures beautiful moments just like while taking a photo. Impressionist paintings were almost to the nature showing the environment. Paintings were colourful, mixture of colours, showing different tones of colour were applied to artworks. Here are some of the famous Impressionist artist : Edouard Manet, Camille Pissaro, Edgar Degas, Alfred Sisley

Jeffrey Smart was an artist with exemplary vision and intense productivity throughout his career. Smart was a master of painting urban landscapes and industrial wastelands with “precise attention to clean lines, composition and geometry” (Pearce, 2012). The development of his visual bloodstream can be attributed to significant architectural and cultural influences in his hometown Adelaide, Australia, as well as Sydney, Rome and Tuscany. SOCIAL, CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL CONTEXTS Born in 1921, young

Langston Hughes, an African American writer who interpreted to the world the black experience in the US and portrayed them with skill and insight, was born February 1st, 1902 into the home of the couple James and Carrie Hughes. Hughes ' mother attended college and had an artistic temperament. James Nathanial Hughes was a prosperous lawyer and rancher in Mexico who disliked the black poor and hated Negroes. On April 30, 1899, in Guthrie, Oklahoma, him and his wife Carrie were married and were pregnant

There are a number of genres in the photography industry. Ones that are the most popular and mainstream are considered as portrait photography while surrealism photography is another interesting genre. These two genres have specific features and characteristics which allow the photographers working in these genres to deliver and convey the subject meaning they wanted. Portrait photography Portrait photography is a type of photograph combing the use of lighting, composition, backdrops and postures

Pablo Picasso once stated, “Colors, like features, follow the changes of emotions.” This quote explains how Picasso’s work changed over the course of his life. Picasso had several art periods in which anyone is able to see the change of both colors and emotions in his works. For example, Picasso’s Blue period showed his melancholic emotions through blue tones, while during his Rose period he used brighter red and pink tones showing his more happy emotions. Pablo Picasso’s works expressed his emotions

Introduction: Calcined gypsum (calcium sulphate hemihydrate, CaS04 -1/2H20), often known as plaster of Paris, is used extensively in the production casts to immobilize parts of the body and for making moulds used in the make of orthotic and prosthetic devices. Plaster models and casts have several advantages, and a few disadvantages. Everywhere available, plaster is inert, adequately stable dimensionally, for the use at hand, and it is low price. Its key disadvantage involves the time required for

despite this, Debussy shied away from the ostentation of Wagner’s opera in his works. In 1892 at the age mid age of 30, Debussy began to compose for operas with the start of Pelléas et Mélisande, a play written by Met Erik Satie, a pianist from Montmartre, which

of the park is fountain surrounded by two elegant terraces. A lot of Parisians visit the park for relaxing, especially students who come to study there. Another main feature of the park is the Fontaine de Médicis. Sacré-Coeur and Quartier Montmartre The Basilique Sacré-Coeur has a special halo. Its alabaster facade blends Romanesque and Byzantine styles making it look like a wedding cake from afar. The church was created as a symbol of faith and hope after the Franco-Prussian War, so it has