Byzantine art relied on heavy line work and vibrant colours to capture the viewer. Giotto brought new life to the table in his artwork by steering away from flat imagery and adding depth and realism. It must have felt like an awakening to the artists working in Europe at this time. Influences Giovani Cimabue was a Florintine painter and a master of the Byzantine style himself. Giotto is fortunate enough to have Cimabue see the potential in him and take him under his wing as an apprentice.
Whether he was using collage techniques, fusing, clippings from a magazine or a stroke of a brush he created powerful art that will be in minds forever. His visual recollections of the south drawn from real-life memories and stories are anything but usual. His painting “The Family” (1941) demonstrates Bearden’s love for the Cubist style and through this he addresses family’s complex relationships and rituals that were able to tie into my own real-life experiences. Romare Bearden demonstrates that you can take something simple and turn it into something beautiful and meaningful, and that is something he will always be remembered for. The painting, “The Family” can be easily be defined as a
Body: The Last Supper was created by Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo was born poor in Florence and because of his excellence in his artwork he rose to the top and became famous for his artwork. Leonardo was thought of one of the best artists of his time. Many of his paintings are well known and beautiful pieces for example the Mona Lisa, that is one of the most popular renaissance works of art. He created The Last Supper because the Duke Lodovico asked him to paint it on a wall of the church, Santa Maria delle Grazie because that was where the Duke planned to be buried.
His pieces of art are distinguished by their stunning strength and realism. His art pieces show distress and moral weakness as well as passion and beauty. “Eve” is a world famous sculpture and known as one of his most powerful and influential works. “Eve” was first introduced in his design for “The Gates of Hell’. He received a commission to create an entrance for the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris in 1880.
One of the most famous artists during this time was Jacque-Louis David. He had painted a lot of historical paintings such as “Oath of the Horatii” and “Lictors Bringing to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons”, both display a gravity and decorum derived from classical tragedy. Another famous painter of the time was Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. He won the Prix De Rome with his painting “The Envoys of Agamenmnon at the Tent of Achilles” and painted “The Death of Leonardo da Vinci and Paolo and Francesca”. Romanticism Romanticism was begun in England and Germany in the 1770’s, and later on it had spread throughout Europe by the 1820’s.
Even though Stanislavski specialised in naturalism, the techniques he produced are very suitable for our expressionist production. Meyerhold was a student of Stanislavski and later on worked very closely with him, but Meyerhold broke away from realism as he believed we should focus on developing skills from traditional, as so did Craig on-realistic theatrical styles. He
The Renaissance influence on art in its richness and attempts at realism has produced many pieces of art that are still among the most famous today. Michelangelo’s David being one of them. The new method of using perspective in art allowed for depth but also conveyed a stillness that made the pieces hauntingly beautiful to behold and at the same time quite frozen; alive but yet without movement. Michelangelo’s David is a miraculous study of form that is beyond compare. The details of each body part is almost a work of art in itself.
As described by Anatole France in the first chapter of the novel The Gods Will Have Blood, Evariste Gamelin was an artist, a pupil of Jacques Louis David, who was the most famous artist of the period, and was a supporter of Maximilien Robespierre and a member of the Convention. Citizen Evariste Gamelin can also be described as a man of strong convictions, of which he so strongly believed to be for the good for the state and the people. His very own mannerisms illustrated and depicted an aura of purpose and revolutionary spirit, which can be seen in page 27 of the novle, “Evariste Gamelin strode purposefully up the nave: the arches, which for so long had heard the holy officeers of the day chanted by the surplice-clad brothers of the community of St. Paul.” Mesouir Evariste Gamelin is also a man of respectable nature, one who was even recognized as a respectable man in a conversation with the magistrate, “I knew you would come and put your name to it,
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Napoleon Bonaparte said “A picture is worth a thousand words.” A picture, a canvas, a sculpture are all kinds of art. Art is for most artists a way to express themselves, a way to show what they feel, a way to share what they see, and also a way to inspire us to see more than what they draw, write or sculpt. Artists have different ways to work. Some try to be fantastic, romantics that can make us dream; others try to be as realistic as they can to make us think. The last group is the one I consider Augustus Saint-Gaudens to be part of.