Musée Rodin

Pierre Bonnard was born on October 3rd, 1867 at Fontenay-aux-Roses, a village outside Paris. He was the son of prominent official of the French Ministry of War. Due to his insitnace Bonnard studied law at Sorbonne from 1885 to 1888. During the year of 1887 Bonnard enrolled in evening classes at Académie Julian, which was an art school in Paris. While at the art school he and four of his friends joined together and formed group which was known as Les Nabis. They used this group to integrate art into

Gustav Klimt created his oil on canvas painting The Kiss between 1907 and 1908 using oil with layers of gold leaf. This piece also uses mosaic techniques as well as fresco. Just as the title suggests, the painting is a depiction of a couple embraced in a kiss. The man is kissing and embracing the woman, the woman in return is accepting the kiss and leaning up to him (Cruz 34). The painting is exhibited at the Osterrelchische Galerie Belvedere in Vienna, Austria. The Kiss is a large piece measuring

This Art Appreciation exposition is looking into between The Kiss by Auguste Rodin and The Gnaw by Janine Antoni. There are different distinctive topics yet the subject the pieces have in common is love. The Gnaw symbolizes a materialistic sort of love. Chocolate is frequently given on valentine's day, and The Gnaw is a like a large bit of chocolate. The Kiss symbolizes all the more a physical and passionate sort of relationship. The Kiss is more romantic because the way that love should not be founded

Pierre Auguste Renoir is a French born artist who lived at his home town of Limoges, France. He died December 3, 1919. He was well known for his contributions to impressionist movement. All of his work contains some form warm colors which elicits a hearty and friendly atmosphere of its inhabitants. Aside from the calm nature and the tender layout of his works, his paintings almost always focused more women. “They provided him with his most potent source of inspiration are at the center of the idyllic

Degas is an artist best known for his enchanting and delicate paintings of ballerinas. Undoubtedly, these works have a high degree of charming appeal, and rightfully deserve the praise they are given. However, the power of Degas as an artist extends far beyond the whimsical, enchanting tulle skirts and delicate foot positions. The paintings of Degas can be viewed as a window into Parisian life during a time of great change and social disruption. Degas’s art brings into question: What does it mean

The mid 1800’s in France was truly a period for challenging arising issues in the midst a great change. Gustave Courbet’s The Stone Breakers and-Jean Francois Millet’s The Gleaners, are two paintings that use the style of realism to convey a unique perspective of the reality around them. (subjects, brush stroke, background) The Stone Breakers is a painting that was created in the year 1849, by French artist Gustave Courbet. This painting has the dimensions of 165 x 257 cm, and was done with the medium

The differences and similarities between Jean-Leon Gerome’s The Bath, and Edgar Degas’s Leaving the Bath are evident but there is more than what meets the eye. Gerome’s work of art shows how much people dependent upon one another, while Degas’s work of art shows people’s independence. Being married to a wealthy person or born into a wealthy family allows people to be dependent upon other people do their work, while those who are not wealthy do everything themselves. By simply adding one extra person

Conceptual Frame World Claude was born in Paris, France in the year 1840. Despite the fact that Paris was his birthplace, Claude only spent 5 years of his childhood there as he and his family moved to Le Havre, a port town in Normandy. Claude developed a love for art in his early childhood and was well known in his town for drawing caricatures of his community members. His mother was highly encouraged his talent whereas Claude’s father wanted his son to become a businessman. Living in Le Havre,

Auguste Rodin was a French sculpture; however, he had also created art in the forms of: oil painting, watercolors, chalk, drawings, drypoints, and a lithograph. He was born on November 12, 1840 in Paris from his parents Marie Cheffer and Jean Baptiste Rodin. He married the love of his life, Rose Beuret, in 1917 and had a son, Auguste-Eugene Beuret. However, after Auguste and Rose got married, she had passed away three weeks later. As a young child, Auguste was brought up in a middle-class area called

inside/out isn’t as easy as it sounds. There are a whole lot of meanings for the topic. For everyone inside/out is a different story, religion and life style. Two artists that have integrated the phenomenon of inside/out are, Marisol Escobar and Auguste Rodin. These two artist are extremely different in their way of living their lives, not only physically but also spiritually, as well obviously their own personal style of art. Maria Sol Escobar was born on May 22nd, 1930, to Venezuelan parents in Paris