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Along with Edouard Manet, Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley, Monet forced art to address the frequently unacknowledged, yet commonplace, type of visual experience, the glance. The term "impression" as it defines thes primary goals the artists pursued, denotes "the sensory information registered on the retina prior to thought of any sort" (Stuckey, ¶ 2)
"In the 1890s the drinking started to affect his health. He was confined to a sanatorium and to his mother's care at home, but he could not stay away from alcohol" (Toulouse-Lautrec, 2002)
The Potato Eaters depicts his most famous picture from this period (Yoffe, 1995). The Potato Eaters, April, 1885 (Van Gogh Gallery, 2009)
In 1869, Van Gogh began working for his uncle, a partner in the international firm of picture dealers Goupil and Co., in the company's branch office at the Hague (Yoffe, 1995)
I just come in cold and have absolutely no grasp of what is going on in that particular work. I cannot appreciate the work simply because I don not have any idea of what is going on or what the artist is trying to portray (Gaya, 2011)
Some abstract art is chaotic and mediocre and therefore do not appeal to anyone viewing them. This type of art does not communicate anything meaningful and often frustrates the desire of people viewing the art when it comes to determining a clear meaning of the art (Stambor, 2006)
8 meters. (Boeck, and Sabartes 225) This size therefore necessitates a process of intense composition and sketching before the final process resulted in the completed work
Historical Context The subject matter of this painting refers to an actual historical event that took place. In April of 1937, the Basque town of Guernica was almost completely destroyed by German bombing planes, acting on behalf of General Franco (Larrea 11)
Few painters would have put effort into creating something as visually unappealing as this painting. Even modernist paintings of the period believed the Picasso had lost his senses when he created this painting (Plagens 1)
The words "stripped skirt" not only literary defines the type of the dress but also describes the lady's personality as she was a fashion icon of her time and was famous for her dress sense and elegancy. Hence the title itself depicted her as a lady with a powerful personality (Art Galleries, 2009)
The first picture in discussion is the painting of Madame Cezanne, a famous model of that time Horrense Fiquet, who was the mistress of Paul Cezanne painted by him in late eighties. This picture is one of the many still-life paintings Paul completed during his life time (Did you Know, n
According to one review posted on a website about Paul Cezanne's still-life paintings of his wife it was maintained that Paul and his wife never understood each other and didn't get much out of the marriage. This is why although the lady dutifully posed for her husband at several occasions but these portraits clearly show her with a remote and inscrutable look portraying eyes that never meet the viewer's (Tate, 2007)
The Blue Rider group pioneered advancements in abstract art and was based in Munich from 1911 until 1914. Klee traveled to Northern Africa, where he encountered colors and lighting such as he had never seen before (Pioch 2002)
Just when the argument was won, he turned to figuration, developing a unique repertoire of mannikins, pumpkins etc." (Ottinger, 2005) Helion's original works are mostly simply forms and shapes, but this painting of the pumpkin is almost equally surreal and distorted, perhaps even more so than his abstract works because it is of an object that should look familiar, ordinary, and located in nature -- but does not
While most of the Western world's educated citizens are aware of Churchill's intellect, wit, diplomatic greatness and uncompromising resilience during World War II - especially after Hitler's Nazis had seized most of Europe and were bombing England mercilessly - few know he was an accomplished painter. "Painting is complete as a distraction," Churchill wrote in his book, Painting as a Pastime (Churchill, 1950)
" Moreover, the former Prime Minister of Great Britain wrote, "Even if you cannot portray" the scene you are painting, "as you see it, you feel it, you know it, and you admire it for ever." For readers interested in learning more about the subject, another internationally renowned celebrity offers some valuable insights into the wonder of painting for leisure; he is Leonardo da Vinci, and his words are published in a book called Leonardo on Painting (Kemp, 1989)
As one commentator notes about the painting under discussion; "This masterpiece epitomizes the Impressionist concept of "the glance." It triumphs wonderfully in conveying the sensation of a snapshot in time, a stroll on a beautiful sunny day" (WebMuseum: Monet, Claude: The Stroll, Camille Monet and Her Son Jean (Woman with a Parasol)
While the combination of radiocarbon, thermoluminescence, and electron spin resonance dating techniques assisted investigators for the upper Paleolithic period in the reconstruction of "a reasonably coherent global chronology." (Bar-Yosef, 2002) At the same time there are still significant standard deviations along with other limitations in this dating of archaeological findings
9-Khr-old bone chip is reported as having been removed from a fissure cross a stenciled hand at Gargas, along with three bones which had been burned and mixed with red and yellow ochre at Grotte at Arcy-sur-Cure aged at 26-28 Kyr; in addition to torch smears on the red frieze which dated to approximately 27 Kyr BP. (De Leo, 2001, paraphrased) It is reported that charcoal from the drawings at four other French caves "has been dated" including investigations at Cougnac which dated approximately 23 to 25 Kyr BP