Although he briefly trained as a Naval Surgeon, Ferguson soon realised that his ambition was painting and he spent some time travelling in Spain, Morocco and France to develop his artistic knowledge and experience. The first painting I am going to discuss is 'The Pink Parasol' which is a portrait painted in 1908 of a fellow artist and friend Bertha Case, when they were both in Paris. In this painting Ferguson adopted much stronger colours than in his other paintings and like Matisse used green paint to represent shadows in the face. He emphasised pattern by merging the pink parasol with the background of his picture by blending it with the cold colours. The painting is of a woman peering over her shoulder, she is wearing a hat with a pink bow and is also wearing a scarf, in the background there is a pink parasol around strong blocks of cold colours.
Title and subject Main article: Lisa del Giocondo The title of the painting that is known in English as Mona Lisa stems from a description by Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari, who wrote "Leonardo undertook to paint, for Francesco del Giocondo, the portrait of Mona Lisa, his wife. "[5][6] Mona in Italian is a polite form of address originating as ma donna —similar to Ma’am, Madam, or my ladyin English. This became madonna, and its contraction mona. The title of the painting, though traditionally spelled "Mona" (as used by Vasari[5]), is also commonly spelled in modern Italian as Monna Lisa, but this is rare in English. Vasari's account of the Mona Lisa comes from his biography of Leonardo published in 1550, 31 years after the artist's death, and which has long been the best known source of information on the provenance of the work and identity of the sitter.
Salvador Dali was influenced by many renaissance era artists. He painted surrealism which was a 20th century style of art and literature created in France that was made to stress the subconscious or non-rational significance of imagery arrived at by automatism or the exploitation of chance effects. His works of art were usually about dreams. His most famous piece of artwork “Persistence of Memory” reflects his theme of dream type artwork. In August 1929 Salvador Dali met his future wife Gala, Elena Ivanovna Diakonova, who was a Russian immigrant and 10 years older then Dali.
He found it to be the ideal place to practice new styles and art forms (“Pablo Picasso Biography”). From that point in his career he began his “Blue Period,” from 1901 to 1904. Depressed and lonely from the death of his close friend, Carlos Casagemas, blues, blacks, and grays dominated his pictures depicting poverty isolation, and anguish. Picasso quickly fell in love with model, Fernande Olivier, and by 1905 he had entered his “Rose Period.” This period was dominated by pinks, beiges, and reds. In 1907, Picasso produced a painting with abstract, distorted, sharp geometric figures.
Paul Cézanne was a French painter known as the father of modern art. He was the first post-impressionist painter of the 19th century and his catalogue of work is distinct and widely known throughout the world. Of his collection, the twenty six oil paintings of his wife, Hortense Fiquet Cézanne had been met with the harshest review. In Emotion, Color, Cézanne (The Portraits of Hortense), Susan Sidlauskas attempts to explain why this group of paintings was so boldly criticized, as well as delving into how the artist used a unique sense of color to portray a duality of emotion within each piece. Sidlauskas begins the article with a brief history of Hortense Fiquet Cézanne.
Summary of Goblin Market lecture, March 18, 2013 KEYWORDS: PRE-RAPHAELITE; MORAL; ALLEGORY; ANGEL IN THE HOUSE; CARPE DIEM; SLANT RHYME/ HALF-RHYME; MASCULINE RHYME; FEMININE RHYME Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) was the sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who was a famous pre-Raphaelite painter—that term is used to describe Rossetti and his circle, as well as later 19th-century artists influenced by them—they looked back to earlier art forms and to an imagined pre-industrial past Christina Rossetti was devoutly religious, and Goblin Market, first published in 1862, can be read as conventionally Victorian in its moral lesson: the good sister is the one who resists temptation, does not stray from the path, and accepts her womanly duties gladly Laura is said to be “Like a vessel at the launch/ When its last restraint is gone,” suggesting the dangers when women are not appropriately confined or restricted Evening by evening Among the brookside rushes, Laura bow’d her head to hear, Lizzie veil’d her blushes: Crouching close together In the cooling weather, With clasping arms and cautioning lips, With tingling cheeks and finger tips. “Lie close,” Laura said, Pricking up her golden head: “We must not look at goblin men” Laura and Lizzie both react modestly (blushing) to the goblins’ cries, but note that by the end of this section, Laura is “pricking up” her head even as she repeats the warning not to stray When she does stray, a simile likens her to, among other things, a boat being cast out into the current: Laura stretch’d her gleaming neck Like a rush-imbedded swan, Like a lily from the beck, Like a moonlit poplar branch, Like a vessel at the launch When its last restraint is gone. The repetition of “Like”, followed by the “when” creates a sense of irresistible forward motion There is a slant rhyme right before that line; a “slant rhyme” or half-rhyme is consonance on
The love affair between Cupid and Psyche is one of the best known classical myths, recounted in the Latin novel The Golden Ass by Apuleius. Many Neoclassical paintings and sculptures derived inspiration from the story. Cupid, lover of the mortal Psyche, forbids her to cast eyes upon him and visits her only at night. Disobeying him, Psyche holds a light over his sleeping body, for which she is punished by Aphrodite. The scene conveyed by this modello is of Psyche being rescued in Cupid's embrace.
It is unusual because when the reader is reading it, they would probably expect everything to remain sweet and romantic but instead it changes and the setting becomes dark and eerie: “The room was warm, the curtains were closed, the two table lamps were lit.” This shows how cosy the living room was and how the writer tries to set the scene as a safe place and not as a place where any type of murder could be committed. The main characters in “Lamb to the Slaughter” are Mary Maloney, the wife and Patrick Maloney, the husband. Mary is quite an old-fashioned housewife in the way she likes to take care of her husband. At the start she is described as being “curiously peaceful” and having a nice mouth and eyes which “seemed larger and
Degas was best known as an Impressionist and was a notorious member, if not the strongest supporter of the group. He was outspoken about the need for artist to join together and establish a place for themselves as promoters of a new, existing artistic awareness. Degas planned what is known as the first Impressionist exhibition and planned many of the following shows. He originally called himself a compatriots “realists”, which pointed to their interest in drawing inspiration from their own environments and experiences. The term Impressionist was later adopted later around the time of the third Impressionist exhibition, despite Degas’s disapproval to the name.
This paper will state how from one of the earliest surviving drawings by Pablo Picasso called “Hercules with His Club” “that he copied from a painting in the parental home” to perhaps his most famous painting namely “Guernica”, or “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” “ painted and completed in France in the summer of 1907”, Picasso whom full name is “Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruiz y Picasso”, this artist dominated and had the most influence on art in the twentieth century. As the saying goes, “life is going on, Art