Chacon, Melissa Professor Folland Art History 72 11 December 2011 "View of the Yosemite" Thomas Hill (1829- 1908) was one of the most influential painters of the 19th century. He produced many fine paintings of California and is most known for the beauty of the American mountain scenery. In 1853, he studied portraiture and every day, genre- scene painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. According to the National Museum of Wildlife Art, during the summer of 1854, Hill visited the White Mountains in New Hampshire, where he met and painted with several artists associated with the Hudson River School. The school was known for their romantic depictions of the American landscape.
Artists such as Pablo Picasso and Cindy Sherman have shown in their art the gender roles of women during their time and how they were seen by men. Pablo Picasso is one of the most recognized figures in 20th century art and has many of his paintings on display worldwide. He was born in Malaga, Spain in 1881 and as a child he was known to be a prodigy, and was recognized for it by his father, who was an art teacher. At 15 years old, he was admitted to the advanced classes at the Royal Academy of Art in Barcelona, Italy. He along with artist Georges Braque founded the cubist movement during the 20th century, but he practiced and went through different styles of paintings before cubism, such as realism, caricature, and his blue and rose period.
The Two Sisters a.k.a. On the Terrace The Two Sisters was painted in 1881 by Pierre August Renoir. It was given a second name, On the Terrace, by an art dealer named Paul Durand Ruel, who was a patron of impressionist artists and was the first owner of the painting. It is an oil painting on canvas, created at Chatou, a suburb of Paris, France. It now hangs in The Art Institute of Chicago.
On his return he became a member of the academy, but he had previously contributed to the exhibitions of 1746 and following years, and he continued to exhibit, with rare exceptions, down to the date of his death, which took place in his lodgings in the Louvre on the 3rd of December 1789. Amongst the very numerous engravers of his works may be specially cited Le Bas, Cochin, Basan, Duret, Flipart and Le Veau in France, and in England Vivares. For my analysis paper I have chosen the artist Claude-Joseph Vernet and his painting “A Calm at a Mediterranean port”. In the painting we can see what looks like a sun set scene of a port; we can already see a large amount of shaded colors. At the same time I also see a dark and light contrast as the composition is compose of many shaded objects.
Week 2 Assignment 2 Web Quest The Bhanjo Lesson (1893) by: Henry Ossawa Tanner Tanner, Henry Ossawa. Hampton University Museum, VA. A graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, African-American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner based his painting, The Banjo Lesson (1893), on a poem by Paul Lawrence Dunbar. Convinced that his race would inhibit his career in the United States, Tanner moved to Paris in 1895, where he enjoyed a successful career as a painter, primarily of religious scenes. This is one of the most beautiful and simple paintings and most popular of Tanner. In this painting above, we can notice the simplistic color value and the rough texture that is concealed inside the shapes.
In 1916 Alfred Stieglitz , her soon to be husband, gave her the opportunity to show her artwork in his gallery the “291”. And in 1917 he gave O’Keeffe her first solo exhibition. In 1924 Stieglitz and O’Keeffe married even though their marriage was an unconventional one. The reason for this being is because Stieglitz was more at home in New York while O’Keeffe preferred the landscape of the southwest in which she drew inspiration for her artworks. In the mid-1920’s she had become known as one of America’s most important artists during this time she was painting New York skyscrapers and large upscale depictions of flowers as if seen up-close.
Impressionism was the first of the modernist art movements. The term impressionism is derived from Monet’s artwork Impression: Sunrise, which is a demonstration of the values of the movement. Impressionism began in France in the 1860’s and exemplified the rejection of traditional art making methods and began abstract art. The impressionists (Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Degas) veered away from the realistic style paintings which society valued and developed a darker and sketchier style. Their paintings reflected every day scenes and landscapes, often painting on location and in plein-air (the open air).
The Starry Night was painted during these last two years. The Starry Night was painted while Van Gogh was in an Asylum at Saint-Remy. He had a similar painting a few years earlier called Starry Night over the Rhone. The Museum of Modern Art curator Joachim Pissarro explained Van Gogh awareness of light. Van Gogh was the first artist “to blend together gaslight—artificial, urban light—with starry light like in the painting”.
Both artists took apart objects and "analyzed" them in terms of their shapes. Picasso paintings at this time have many similarities to Braque. Synthetic cubism was a further development of the genre in 1912–1919. They cut paper fragments, often wallpaper or portions of newspaper pages were pasted into compositions, marking the first use of collage in fine art. Picasso’s African-influenced Period begins with the four figures in his painting, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
History of Japanese Painting Odano Naotake Odano Naotake (1759 – 1780) was a painter from the Akita Ranga art school. This art school was a by-product of the ‘rangaku’, the ‘Dutch learning’. Rangaku was an important movement in eighteenth-century Japan. It is the study of Holland and the Dutch during the time that the Dutch trade post on Desjima the only connection was with the outside world and the west. Through this contact, Japan stayed informed about Western developments, such as health care and other technologies.