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.
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.
Hector Berlioz Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was born in La Cote Saint-Andre, a small town in France. His father, Louis Berlioz, a well-to-do physician expected him to follow in his footsteps. At eighteen, Berlioz was sent to attend medical school in Paris. Five years later, he gave up medicine and ended up studying music at the Paris Conservatoire. Having been cut off by his parents, Berlioz gave lessons and sang in a theater chorus.
It now hangs in The Art Institute of Chicago. Renoir was born on February 25th, 1841 in Limoges, France. He began his career as a porcelain painter but decided to become a full-time painter around 1858. He practiced his technique by copying great master paintings at the Louvre Museum. The style is Impressionist and the size of the painting is 39.6 inches high by 31.9 inches wide.
Sean Frazier Intro to Art History Section 3 Artist Biography: El Greco Domenikos Theotokopoulos, most commonly known as El Greco (The Greek), was a Greek painter, sculptor, and architect who was known for his originality and his dramatic and expressionistic style. He was born on the island of Crete in 1541. There, he learned the technique of icon painting of the Cretan school, also known as the post-byzantine art. In 1563, when El Greco was 22 years old, a document referred to him as a master painter of the painter’s guild, which leads many people to assume that he had his own workshop. A few of his early works that he completed while in Crete include Dormition of the Virgin (before 1567), The Adoration of the Magi (1565-1567), and St. Luke Painting the Virgin and Child (1567).
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. He returned to England for three years of full-time art study at the Royal Academy Schools from 1881 to 1884. Through the 1880s and 1890s he worked in Victoria, at the famous studio complex of Grosvenor Chambers in Melbourne, and at a number of artists' camps and visits around the colony. He married Elizabeth Williamson in 1896, had a son, Caleb. Many of his most famous paintings come from this period.
Metomorphosis of Narcissus Salvador Dali was a Spanish artist who in the 20th century was considered one of the best. He started his interest in art with a man named Ramon Pichots, who was his first role model for painting. Sometime after meeting his role model, Salvador would pursue his passion for painting and attend Municipal drawing School. While he was attending school, he received formal art training, learned draftsmanship, painting and engraving from Senor Nunez. His father started an exhibition of his son’s charcoal drawings in their home in the 1917.
Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school. Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of color profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement. A fine lithographer, Delacroix illustrated various works of William Shakespeare, the Scottish writer Walter Scott and the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. In contrast to the Neoclassical perfectionism of his chief rival Ingres, Delacroix took for his inspiration the art of Rubens and painters of the Venetian Renaissance, with an attendant emphasis on color and movement rather than clarity of outline and carefully modeled form. Dramatic and romantic content characterized the central themes of his maturity, and led him not to the classical models of Greek and Roman art, but to travel in North Africa, in search of the exotic.
Ohara was trained in painting and design at Ishikawa Prefecture Technical school from 1889-1893. Afterward, he was a student of Suzuki Koson whose name he adopted (Koson) meaning “go”. During his actual career, he was a well-known painter and printmaker of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. According to Centuar Galleries “ Koson Ohara is the best known printmaker for kacho-e in 20th century.” Ohara’s artwork belonged to the “shin-hang” movement meaning “new prints”. Kacho-e is the art of flowers and birds by woodprints which is one of the several types of works Ohara did.