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.
A long visit to Paris in 1885 provided his first experience to modern painting; he was inspired by the exhibitions of Jules Bastien-Lepage and Adolf von Menzel. Back in Rome he studied with José Benlliure, Emilio Sala, and José Villegas. In 1888, Sorolla returned to Valencia to marry Clotilde García del Castillo. He first met her in 1879, while working in her father's studio. By 1895, they had three children together: Maria, born in 1890, Joaquín, born in 1892, and Elena, born in 1895.
The modern composer I decided to research after examining various options is Louis Armstrong. Louis Armstrong was born August 4, 1901 in New Orleans, Louisiana to the parents of Mayann Albert and Willie Armstrong. Louis moved from house to house among his mother to his grandmother Josephine Armstrong right after his birth due to Louis’s father leaving him. Once Louis’s mother conceived Louis’s Sister Beatrice four years later when Louis was 6 years old, he moved back in with his mother. Due to Armstrong’s family’s funds being very limited he did whatever he could to bring money home such as selling newspapers, vegetables, and joining a street singing group where he earned the name satchelmouth because of his wide grin.
Tom Roberts. Painting 1- “holiday sketch at Coogee” Painting 2- “Sheering the Rams” Thomas Roberts was born on the 9th of March 1856 and passed away on the 14th of September 1931. Roberts was a prominent Australian artist and a key member of the Heidelberg School. Roberts was born in England, he migrated with his family to Australia in 1869. Settling in Collingwood (Melbourne, Victoria) he worked as a photographer's assistant through the 1870s while studying art at night under Louis Buvelot and befriending others who were to become prominent artists.
Quilts served various purposes: warmth, preserving memories and storytelling. The common quilts included patchwork, asymmetrical designs, bright colors and bold geometric shapes which were spiritual symbols. These things gave Faith a desire as she grew older to study art. In 1950, she began studying art at Ney York City College, concentrating on painting. When she graduated, she began teaching art in the New York City public schools.
Richmond Barthé Introduction Richmond Barthé was born on January 28, 1901, in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. He was only one month old when his father, Richmond Barthé, died. His mother, Clementine Raboteau, was influential in nurturing his early artistic talent. When young Richmond was just an infant, he reportedly was intrigued with the Old English letters on the front page of the New Orleans Times Picayune newspaper. His mother supplied him with paper and pencils to practice copying the letters (Bardolph, 1961).
At school he studied Lutheranism, Latin, arithmetic, history and geography. By the time Bach was ten, both his parents had died, and he was looked after by his eldest brother, Christoph, organist of the Michaeliskirche in Ohdruf, a small town near Einsach. His brother Christoph had large influence on young Sebastian. He taught him how to play keyboard instruments and introduced him to the technique needed in music copying. Young Sebastian even learned how to build a pipe organ, since the organ at Michaeliskirche was repaired under his brother's supervision.
The ‘Night watch’ was a commissioned work showing civic guards. The reason for the limited light in the painting is unknown and this is its enduring legacy. Born July 15, 1606, in Leiden, Netherlands, Rembrandt’s family was well to do and could afford to pay for his apprenticeship. As a boy, he attended Latin school and was enrolled at the University of Leiden, although, he had a greater inclination towards painting. He was soon apprenticed to a Leiden history painter, Jacob Van Swanenburgh (New World Encyclopaedia), who taught him the basic skills and imparted necessary knowledge during the three years he was with him.
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.
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) Norman Rockwell was best known for his paintings that depicted stories of America and its cultural values through a series of people and small town life in the early to mid 20th century. At the age of 14, Rockwell dropped out of high school to go study art at Arts Students League. By the age of 19, Rockwell attained the chief illustrator for Boys Life magazine position and would hold that position for the next fifty years. Rockwell also worked for The Saturday Evening Post and about 150 other companies producing over 4000 works of art. Rockwell did travel to Paris in 1923 to study modern art but it was his root original style that everyone appreciated the most.