Piet Mondrian won his licenses and was able to teach at primary and secondary schools, but his heart was set on becoming a painter. In 1892 Mondrian enrolled in Amsterdam arts school. He had little success over 18 years, until 1910 when he got a breakthrough. He became a full member of the jury of an art society. In 1911, he was exposed for the first time by the works of the cubists Braque and Picasso, at an exhibition in Amsterdam.
Andy Warhol was born on August 6, 1928 and grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a child, Warhol liked to draw and was encouraged by his mother, who was also artistic. Unfortunately at a young age he was diagnosed with chorea, a disease that attacks the nervous system and makes someone shake uncontrollably. With much struggle he overcame this and he graduated from Schenley High School in Pittsburgh in 1945. He enrolled in the Carnegie Institute of Technology and graduated in June 1949.
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.
His life in Paris also brought him closer to other painters. For 2 years he stayed in Algeria because he joined the First Regiment of African Light Cavalry, in 1861. He was supposed to stay there for 7 years but his aunt petitioned for him to return after he contacted typhoid. During his studies in university, he met many artists where they all shared their ideas on new, rapid painting techniques. During that time Monet met a young woman, Camille Doncieux.
During a trip to Italy with his father in 1920, Giacometi saw paintings and sculptures which inspired him therefore he studied more in depth in sculpting. All of his early sculptures were all representational but then he started making more abstract pieces. Giacometti had always liked to experiment with different styles and sculpture. He was first influenced by cubism and the art work of Picasso, who he became friends with for a few years in Paris. Then his work started to show the influence of surrealism.
Self-portraits have been a method of self exploration used by many artists since before the invention of the mirror. An artist uses self-portraits to transcend the barrier of time and be immortalized in history. Norman Rockwell, one of the greatest American painter and illustrator, created a famous piece called Triple Self-Portrait, which can be interpreted as timeless; an attempt of the creator to be eternal. Norman Rockwell was born in New York City in 1894. Since a little kid he knew that he wanted to be an artist, so he left high school to attend the Arts Student League, where he learned the technical skills on which he applied all through his career.
At the young age of 18 he was called to the army. He was injured in 1917 at the Battle of Cambrai during a gas attack. After that he spent most of his time in war training new recruits. He continued his education when the war was finished, and in 1921 earned a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Art. He was happy that he got into art school at the age of 21 because he said that at the age of 21 he was old enough to know how to get something out of it.
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.
Kahlo accompanied her father to local parks, painting her surroundings in watercolor and sharing in her father’s “curiosity about, and passion for, all manifestations of nature” (Herrera 18). Guillermo had also taught Kahlo to retouch, color, and develop photographs. After her father’s death, Kahlo would compare his photographs to her paintings. Whereas he took photographs of his actual reality, she painted the reality in her head. At the age of six, Kahlo fell ill with a bout of poliomyelitis, or polio.
Differences in Nonverbal Communication Between Women and Men Courtney Elaine McDaniel Miles College Abstract How do men and women communicate differently using body language, and why does it matter (in dating, the workplace, and social circles)? A lot of attention has been dedicated to the thought that women and men communicate very differently from one another. In this paper I am going to discuss the gender differences in communications between the opposite sexes. Many believe that gender plays a major role in communication but in all reality, that isn’t the case. Several factors play a part in how someone communicates with another person regardless of their sex.