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    with such social stigma to become a well-rounded artist. It is commonly believed that Valadon started her modeling career in Montmartre at the tender age of 15. She modeled for ten years for many prominent artists such as Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (Rose, 1999). She was also known

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    Wandering the Legion of Honor I entered the 18th- to 20th-Century Neoclassical Art through Post-Impressionism, Gallery: 16–19 I stumbled upon a piece that caught my attention. It was called Le Grand Canal, which means “the large or big canal”. There was something about the painting, as it was held by a gold, thick rimmed frame that made visualizing it more aesthetically pleasing. As if peering through window from the Palazzo Barbaro, where the work’s perspective was said to be created from. The museum

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    Paris in 1840, Claude Monet would later become a leading artist in the Impressionist era. At a young age, Monet had a passion for nature and art and in 1859, Monet began to study art in Paris. Here he met many artists such as Bazille, Sisley, and Renoir. Monet practiced painting en plein air or moving from inside the studios to painting outside in the open. Embodying the Impressionist era in 1873, Monet painted "Impression, Sunrise”, showing many characteristics that define Impressionism and Monet

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    Renoir had moved to Paris in order to study art, which is were he met Claude Monet, and other great impressionist painters. Renoir shared Monet's interests yet regularly liked to catch manufactured light in spaces like dance halls and focused on the female frame, as opposed to landscape. He was also the first Impressionist

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    Impressionism and Post-Impressionism are two artistic movements that had profound influences on the artistic community and world as a whole. Both sought to break the molds of previous artistic styles and movements by creating work truly unique to the artist him or herself. The artists of the Impressionism and Post-Impressionism movements employed vibrant color pallets, well defined brush strokes, and unique perspectives on their subjects that sought to capture light, movement, and emotions on canvas

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    Metropolitan Museum of Art. (2013) Still Life with Peaches. Met Museum.org. Retrieved August 21, 2013, from http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections/437429. Pierre-Auguste Renoir. (2013). The Biography Channel website. Retrieved 10:52, Aug 21, 2013, from http://www.biography.com/people/pierre-auguste-renoir-20693609. Henri Julien Félix Rousseau. (2013). The Biography Channel website. Retrieved 10:55, Aug 21, 2013, from http://www.biography.com/people/henri-ro

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    Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) was a French painter, born in Aix, France. Cézanne was born to a middle-class family, being his father the co-founder of a banking firm. Cézanne attended to good schools due to his family’s background. Paul was registered to the Bourbon College where he enhanced his skills. After meeting Émile Zola in the Bourbon College, Cézanne was encouraged to go deeper in his artistic career. Both of them had the idea of success in the industrial Paris. His father derailed his plans

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    table. She looks as if she is thinking about something as she holds the teapot in her hands. Content: Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement that originated in Paris. A few painters that were know for impressionism were Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, and Frédéric Bazille, who influenced each other and worked together. Mary Cassatt portrait shows that she mastered impressionism, due to her brushwork and sketch like finish and the way she painted Mrs. Scott’s hand holding the teapot with

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    rebuild the country's political and social structure. This was also the awakening of impressionism, which seeks to recreate a scene or impression of a scene. It was started by a group of French painters is considered the first “art movement.” Pierre-Auguste Renoir, was one of the artist who took part in this revolution towards a more progressive era. His portfolio of paintings uses this style of painting as to bring about social change. Renoir’s “Luncheon on the Boat Party” is an impressionist oil painting

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    Pierre-Auguste Renoir, “Luncheon of the Boating Party” & Caravaggio, “Narcissus” Similarities: 1. The first similarity, I found is that both paintings appear to be portraying an event as it is happening, similar to a photo. 2. The second similarity, I found is that both paintings use colors that may best describe the context of the artists as the paintings were created. 3. The final similarity, I found is that without knowing the artists history, it would appear that both paintings were based

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