in Herrera 18). Kahlo would later owe her “marvelous” (qtd. in Herrera 20) childhood to her father’s influence. As a painter and photographer himself, Guillermo would be the first to spark his daughter’s interest in art. 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).
Over the next 80 years, the Hudson River School grew to include about 100 painters! The school became widely recognized as the first truly national style of art. The artists focused on American scenery, and expressed their own ideas, spirit, and beliefs through the color, light, and perspective. These painters began a new artistic tradition by making the focus of their paintings natural scenery around them. Contributions Made to Colonial America: Artists founded new ways of thinking about the human relationship with the natural world.
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.
Leonardo da Vinci was very talented he was great artist, but he he became famous because he was able to do so many other things he was painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and write. When he was about 15 years old Leonardo’s father took him to Florence Italy to train as a painter and sculptor in the studio of Andrea Del Verrocchio. He studied with this master until the age of twenty five. He drew and took many notes of what he observed. Leonardo used everything he learned from nature and science to paint.
Gary Snyder Gary Snyder's childhood and years to come contributed greatly to his intellectual adult workings. The Norton Anthology says that Snyder's poems are acts of cultural criticism, challenges to the dominant values of the contemporary world. He was born in San Francisco in 1930, but he was raised on a small farm in Washington state an later moved to Portland, Oregon (Norton Anthology). Growing up in these wooded states, Snyder became very attached to nature. His love for nature is what drove him to study and respect the native Indian cultures that provided a closer relationship with it.
More than 500 years after his birth, Leonardo Da Vinci is the one person most people think of when they think of the Renaissance. This is not only because his interests were varied and his skills great, but because his curiosity and search for knowledge defined the culture of the period. On April 15, 1452, in Vinci, Italy, notary Ser Piero and peasant girl Caterina gave birth to Leonardo Da Vinci. Being raised by his father influenced him greatly during his childhood. Because of family and friend, he had access to scholarly texts and was exposed to Vinci’s long-lasting painting traditions.
Black Soul is an animated short film by Martine Chartrand that picturizes Black culture with and interesting journey through its history. A young boy traces his ancestry and roots through the stories his grandmother tells him. These stories were what brought upon their culture and heritage. In this film, Martine uses the paint on glass method to animate this extensive piece of work. Using over a thousand pictures, she put together a flowing work of art.
Artists can be influenced by their experiences of the world and make artworks as a result. This is shown through Rauschenberg’s retroactive, and Monet’s Water-Lily pond. Both works reflect the work their artists live and breathe, along with the stylistic art movements, in addition the subject matter relates exceedingly to the artists environment. Monet practiced impressionism whilst Rauschenberg adopted Pop art and other developing art styles. Robert Rauschenberg was born in Port Arthur, Texas in 1925.
Giacometti’s dad was quite well known at that time. He was the oldest child he had a sister and two brothers. One of his brothers was called Diego. He helped Giacometti with his career and modelled for him in paintings and sculptures over the years. Giacometti always wanted to be an artist.
His artistic choice of occupation was possibly influenced by his mother who was a singer. Claude Monet is not to be confused with Édouard Manet who was also an impressionistic painter of the same time period. Édouard Manet is often referred to as the “father” of the Impressionist Movement, as he was one of the first artists to use the “colour patch” style and was therefore a great influence—and often was a mentor as well as friend—to many of the great Impressionists, such as Claude Monet. Artistic Life and Influences Monet’s art-filled life began during his schooling in Le Havre when, according to his autobiography, he would draw caricatured portraits of his professors in the margins of his textbooks. During this time, he became well-known locally and was commissioned for charcoal caricatures, for which he would charge between 10 and 20 francs depending on how he liked the looks of his clients.