After abandoning his dream of becoming a mathematician Speer began his career in architecture and in 1923 attended the Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe, finishing his architecture course in 1927. After his graduation from the Institute Speer began to work as his old professors assistant (Professor Tessenow). By 1930 the Nazi movement was becoming more popular with the German people and many of the students at the Institute where Speer worked had begun to support the party. In December of that year Speer was persuaded by his students to attend a Nazi rally where Hitler himself was present. Hitler delivered a charismatic speech where Speer was drawn into each word he spoke and was evidently carried away with the waves of enthusiasm and emotion which would, in later years, attribute to Speer’s defence at the Nuremburg trials claiming he was a ‘follower of Hitler who drew men in with a magnetic force and had not thereafter released me’ – Speer Speer then caught up in the Nazi frenzy joined the NSDAP Party in March 1931.
Leduc was self-taught and his work was often associated with symbolism. Many of his artworks represented many layers of meaning , and deep analysis brought up interesting facts about his beliefs and values. One example of such painting is Phrenology, which was executed in 1892 and is a still-life depiction of what seems to be an artist's workplace. Phrenology is an interesting painting to analyze as it presents many different elements and layers. It depicts, at first sight, the sculpture of a head, or a bust.
Carlos Schwabe was an exponentially great artist; he gave very real very strong emotions and projections of feelings through his work. He was born in Altona, Holstein he then later moved to Geneva, Switzerland where he studied as a child. As a young man he moved to Paris where he worked as a wallpaper designer; and became acquainted with symbolist artists. He was requested as novel illustrator frequently, which he accepted the jobs he saw fit. He lived in France for the rest of his days, dying in the region of Avon Seine-et-Marne.
Chuck Close has experienced a remarkable career spanning thirty years. I think it is extremely impressive how he overcame his paralysis through extensive physical therapy to regain the ability to be able to continue to create portraits again. Vincent van Gogh was born in 1835. Coming from a large family he began his working career at the young age of sixteen selling art in galleries in London and Paris. He eventually became a minister as his father was which was when his passion for art began to emerge.
Here he met his good friend, Amadeo Modigliani. Modigliani was and Italian painter and sculptor who mainly worked in the styles of fauvism and cubism of figures. Although Rivera is known for his frescoes, there was a short time between 1913 and 1917 where he devoted his work solely to the style of cubism. Cubism at this time was big in Paris, where Rivera was currently studying. Here he met the father of cubism, Pablo Picasso.
Poppies were also associated with sleep (opium being a poppy derivate) and McCrae, being a doctor, would have been conscious of this: the idea of sleeping under the poppies is revived in the last lines. * “We are the dead.”: the poem turns, surprisingly, to the dead, who are given voice by the poet. This is a powerful and emotive turn, a direct address of the living by the fallen. * “In the sky, the larks”: these birds, traditional poetic symbols of natural beauty and freedom, contrast strongly with the world below. As often, nature provides an idealized backdrop to the war that provides a contrast with man’s immoral
Blossfeldt was also a professor of Applied Art at Berlin Arts and Crafts School and used his photographs with his students, showing them too of the different forms of plants up close for their study. His work was seen as surrealism to critics as well as a major breakthrough in modern art. In my opinion, Karl Blossfeldt’s work stand out to me as brilliant photography as he shows the different tones and irregular forms that plants grow into as well as clearly presenting their more complex texture from close up; which you would not normally see or be aware of if it was not enlarged. Although his work was produced only in monochrome (as he was obviously not able to produce colour photography due to such advanced technology not being invented yet) the photographs show patterns, outlines and the depth of different plants’ three dimensional
Psychology 101-046 | The Biography of Paul Broca “An Emphasis On His Contributions To Psychology” | Paul Pierre Broca was born on the 28th June 1824, in Sainte –Foy- Grande. He was the son of a medical practitioner by the name of Benjamin Broca. He earned his bachelor’s degree at the age of sixteen and also diplomas in physical sciences and mathematics. In 1841, at the age of seventeen he entered medical school in Paris and graduated at the age of twenty. After graduating he did an extensive internship with dermatologist Philippe Ricord, at the Hôpital du Midi and then with François Leuret at the Bicêtre Hospital.
At the age of seventeen, Félix Vallotton entered Académie Julian, an art academy in Paris. He began his art career as a portrait painter but later on he developed his own technique of wood engraving and started to revolutionize the art of woodcut. Not before long, he was associated with Les Nabis (a famous group of Post-Impressionist vanguard artists). During the First World War, Félix Vallotton was asked to serve as a contracted artist for the French army to create political and social posters for France. Félix Vallotton also helped setup and organize the Salon d’Automne (Autumn Salon) that is an annual art exhibition held in Paris.
She says that right after that a black butterfly with blue trim (the same colors of Dana’s favorite dress) landed on Dana’s grave, and she knew right then and there that Dana was in heaven and that she was alright. The night my grandfather died I went outside to smoke a cigarette and it was a very stormy, windy, dark night. To me it felt very uneasy and miserable as if the world knew that a wonderful man had left it. It was so windy that the tress were waving back and forth, my mother was convinced and tried to convince me that it was my grandfather trying to say goodbye to us. I however, was convinced that the world knew it was a mistake that they took my grandfather away from me and all his loved ones.