Also, Dehon was very interested in knowledge and learning. When Dehon was a sophomore in high school that’s when he decided he wanted to dedicate his life to God and become a priest. Although during his high school years he forgot about his faith, right after high school Dehon wanted to go to the seminary; his father had other plans. In 1859, Dehon’s father sent him to Paris for Law School. When in Paris, Dehon earned his bachelors degree in science.
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.
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.
His father did not, at first, agree with his career choice in art, yet realizing his son’s talent, allowed him to continue on his chosen career path. Cézanne went through several artistic styles, in which allows his artwork to vary throughout time. In the late 1860’s (the early Romantic Period) his artwork dealt with violent subjects, harsh fantasy, dark colors and vastly heavy paintwork. Yet in the 1870’s his approach altered where landscapes became the subject of his paintings. In addition, under Camille Pissarro's influence, Cézanne embarked on abandoning dark colors and the colors in his canvases grew much brighter.
Upon demobilization that year he took a minor position with the customs service (hence he is often called Rousseau le Douanier, "the Customs Officer"), where he remained until his early retirement in 1885. Given a small pension, Rousseau settled in humble quarters and devoted himself to painting. In 1886 Rousseau exhibited for the first time at the Salon des Indépendants, where he showed fairly regularly until his death. He helped support himself by giving lessons in painting, diction, and music—he was a skilled violinist. Though many ridiculed him, Paul Gauguin, Odilon Redon, Georges Seurat, Camille Pissarro, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec admired his work.
Sam Morrison ART 220 11/6/13 Vladimir Kush Vladimir Kush, a Russia native, began his art career at a young age of seven, where he studied great artists of the Modern and Impressionism art movement, and also the Renaissance. Ten years later Kush entered the Moscow Higher Art and Craft School, also known as the Surikov Moscow Art Institute, the largest educational institution in Russia. However, a year later Kush was conscripted into the Soviet Army where after being noticed for his artistic and more peaceful side, was assigned for two years to painting propaganda murals. Four years later (1987), Kush began showing his art work with the USSR Union of Artists, which , as of January, 1976, included 14,538 members. He later returned to his alma mater, where he briefly taught; but he discovered he could make more money, and further progress his newly forming style, while painting portraits on the street.
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.
John dos Passos A little biography. Born John Roderigo Madison en 1896, John dos Passos was a writer, although he was well studied in other arts like architecture and painting. He lived in Europe until he was five years old, which resulted in him having learned French as his first language. When he was five he and his mother came back to America, where young John started showing that he was no regular boy. He graduated from school early, and entered Harvard in 1912, after a year spent traveling to Europe, but now as a young adult.
This day was portray in one of his essays called, “Notes of a Native Son”. When Baldwin was fifteen, his high-school friend, Emile Capouya, skipped school one day and, while in Greenwich Village he met Beauford Delaney, a painter. Emile gave James the address, and suggested a visit. James, who worked at a sweatshop nearby and dreaded going home after school, visited Beauford. He became a mentor to Baldwin, and Beauford’s influence brought him to his first realization that a black person could be an artist.