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    The artwork that is my personal favorite is Ethel Long by Arthur Byron Phillips. This painting in tempera was made on hardboard in 1966 or 1967. Phillips successfully captures the beauty of the older woman through the use of light and the contrast of colors. This painting is a portrait of an old woman who is sitting on a chair while facing to the left. She is wearing a yellow flower dress with a beige jacket while sitting in an empty room. Her beauty is illustrated by her curly, gray hair and also

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    Jatte I hope to convey to the reader that these two paintings, although painted in different styles, both illustrate the need to slow down and enjoy life. Les Grands Boulevards is a 20 1/2 x 25in. European oil on canvas painting created by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1875 during the impressionism movement (“Philadelphia Museum of Art”). The painting is currently housed in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (“Philadelphia Museum of Art”). A Sunday on La Grande Jatte is another European oil on canvas painting

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    enjoying many unique and creative paintings. Sometimes these paintings can draw similarities and differences among each other that make them stand out even more. Two paintings that draw significant similarities while also contrasting one another are Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Dance at the Bougival (accession no. 37.375) and Oskar Kokoschka’s Two Nudes (Lovers) (accession no. 1973.196). Renoir’s piece was made in 1883 with oil on canvas as his medium of choice while Kokoschka’s piece was made in 1913 with oil

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    The painting, Bathers with Crab by Pierre-Auguste Renoir is the work that stood out the most during the visit to the Carnegie Museum of Art. In the museum this work is displayed in a large ornamental frame, which is also similar in color as the rocks in the painting. This aspect makes the rest of the painting stand out in color and also seems more vibrate then if it had a less decorative frame or no frame at all. The painter is known for his impressionist work. So how does the impressionist style

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    are quite realistic, which indicate that the painting is surreal, though it is considered as impressionist. Caillebotte was originally an engineer but he also attended Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. There he met Edgar Degas, Claude Monet and Pierre Auguste Renoir, who are also famous artists. The four of them organized the first impressionist exhibition in

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    Midterm #1 1. Shot 2 and 3 both take place within films by director Jean Renoir. Shot 2, a medium close up in frontality, composed of three people sitting around each other. A man pours wine for a woman with an old woman behind them, takes place at 18:45 in Partie De Campagne. At roughly 19:52 in La Bȇte Humaine, shot 3 is a long shot from a high angle of a field, a woman’s back to the camera looking at a man with a herd of cows behind him. While both taking place in quite pastoral settings,

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    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, Claude monet, Berthe Morisot and Pierre Auguste Renoir. Similarly to Realism, Impressionism has rarely replied to the political events. The destructive effect of France’s defeat in the Franco-Prussian war in the 1871 had almost no impact on the impressionist. However, Impressionist painters

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    What Impressionism Sought to Achieve By the year 1863 the sentry which allows the visual messages transmitted by the eye to penetrate to the brain only after a rigorous censorship, had admitted most aspects of visual truth, but there were two that had not yet officially passed the censor. They were (1) the colour and vibration of light and (2) the density of air. No one had ever painted the true colour of sunshine and shadow, and hardly anyone had thought it worthwhile to suggest that the density

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    The Pre-Raphaelites were a seven rebellious artists in London who wanted to create new art. The pre-Raphaelites Brotherhood were; William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner.They detested another artist’s work that, at the time went by the name Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino), hence the name Pre-Raphaelites. However, society in the Victorian period adored Raphael and his work and many

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    Claude Monet Influences

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    Camille Pissarro, who was in the 1880’s. Alfred Sisley was an influence during his big years of the 1870’s. Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of his biggest role models in the 1860’s. Renoir, Pissarro, and Monet were some of the leaders in the impression. They all went there so that they could show their works in Paris in 1874. I would also have to say that Eugene Boudin influences his life majorly

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