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La Grande Jatte Island Of La Grande Jatte Painting
878 wordsThe Luncheon of the Boating Party by Pierre-Auguste Renoir is a piece full of rich colours that reflect both the time period and the artist's impressionist style. This composition not only conveys a leisurely gathering of people, but also expresses the changing French social structure of the time due to the industrial revolution. To portray these themes Renoir uses, shape, space, colour and texture. Shape is seen in the modeled figures and bottles, and space is created by overlapping of the bodi...
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Vincent Van Gogh French Painter
1,254 wordsPostimpressionism Postimpressionism was a movement in late- 19 th-century French painting that emphasized the artist's personal response to a subject. Postimpressionism takes its name from an art movement that immediately preceded it: Impressionism. But whereas impressionist painters concentrated on the depiction of a subject's immediate appearance, postimpressionist's focused on emotional or spiritual meanings that the subject might convey. Although impressionist artists interpreted what they s...
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Landscape Painting Yale University
2,624 words... this particular painting, the focal point of the golden mean is the sun on the horizon, and characteristically he uses the sun to give the painting depth. In around 1635 forgeries of Claude's work began to appear, so he began recording the pictures he sold in his Liber veritas, which contains sepia drawings and etchings of almost all his paintings, creating a record of his most beautiful draftsmanship. Claude did not construct these sketches as finished items. He always thought ahead, their ...
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Landscape Painting Vertical Lines
1,214 wordsGeorges Seurat painted A Sunday on La Grande Jatte on canvas with oil pigments in 1844. In his work the artist used the pointillism approach and the use of color to make his painting be as lifelike as possible. Seurat worked two years on this painting, preparing it with at least twenty drawings and forty color sketched. In these preliminary drawings he analyzed, in detail every color relationship and every aspect of pictorial space. La Grande Jatte was like an experiment that involved perspectiv...
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Daisy And Tom Jay Gatsby
1,625 wordsAfter reading the book The Great Gatsby, the author, F. Scott Fitzgerald imparts upon the reader a very specific impression of glamour and allurement in a perfect, yet shallow, upper class society. Even the front cover of the book itself illuminates the flair and attractive lights that would appeal to those of wealth. But John Read Seurat s painting of the Man at a Parapet shows the complete opposite image. Seurat s dismal use of specificity and drab use of color is everything that a man like Ga...
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Seurat Georges Seurat Une Baignade Asnieres Paris
700 wordsGeorges George Seurat Georges Seurat Georges Seurat was born on December 2, 1859, in Paris, France. He loved to draw as a young child while his mother, Ernestine Five, raise him and his siblings. They lived in Paris and his father, Antoine-Chrisostome, spent most of his time in a cottage in Le Rainy. In 1875, when Seurat was only sixteen he began taking a course with a sculptor, Justin Lequien. Several years later, Seurat studied with Henri Lehmann at the Ecole Des Beaux-Arts. During the next tw...
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