Van Goethem was born on June 7th, 1865 and began as a student at the École de Dance in Paris, but by 1880 she had bee studying as a dancer at the Opéra in Paris (1). Degas was greatly interested in dance, so he spent hours attending rehearsals and studying the dancers. He drew Maria, both clothed and nude, from various angels. Numerous charcoal and pastel drawings have been found showing Degas’s meticulous care in preparing for the actual sculpture. One of Degas’s only publicly exhibited sculptures at the time, it was shown at the sixth Impressionist exhibition in 1881 and was encased in a glass box.
The piece of art I chose while at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts was a painting made in the 19th century by an artist named Thomas Moran, who was born in England but was an American citizen. Thomas was born in 1837 and died in 1926 at the age of 89. The painting is called Lower Manhattan from Communipaw, New Jersey, and was painted in 1880 with oil on a canvas. I think the theme of the art is history because everything in the painting shows how Manhattan operated with all of the industries and factories producing items and raw materials for business, and it shows the beginning of the pollution of our ozone layer and waters from the smoke of the factories and the garbage that was washed ashore. It also shows laborers and how they
Berry Gordy was an American record producer and songwriter. His claim to fame was the establishment of the renowned Motown record label and its affiliates. Motown became one of the most eminent music companies in the history of the U.S. Berry Gordy was born on 28th November 1929 in Detroit, Michigan and was the seventh child in a middle class family of Berry Gordy Sr. Berry’s siblings were all educated citizens however Berry wanted to become very rich very quickly so decided to drop out of school and become a professional boxer. He got interested in music by writing songs and soon opened the 3D Record Mart which was a store that featured jazz music. Unfortunately this venture was not successful.
Wiz came from a military family and his first attempt at committing lyrics to paper was around age nine, and at 12 he was already recording and producing his own records in his father's Oklahoma studio. He went from breakthrough single ("Black and Yellow") to feature film star (Mac and Devin Go to High School) in the short span of two years. That day he was the only person performing. This meant that he was the opening of his performance and it was all about him. The concert was free with admission into the fair but good thing me and my friend bought tickets for a seat because the security only let in a certain amount of people.
People had only used the camera obscura for viewing or drawing—not for taking photos—until 1827, when Joseph Nicephore Niepce successfully captured a scene. These heliographs or sun prints were the first prototypes of photos. The images, however, required eight hours of exposure and later faded. In 1829, Louis Daguerre formed a partnership with Joseph Niepce to improve the process Niepce had established. During 1839, Daguerre eventually developed a more convenient and effective method through the use of silver-plated copper, iodine and silver chloride, naming it the daguerreotype.
Umberto Boccioni 1882- 1916 Unique Forms of Continuity in Space 1913 Bronze 119.7 x 86.4 x 82.2 cm Umberto Boccioni was and Italian Oil painter and sculpture who lived from 1882 - 1916. He was a leading figure in the style of Futurism, the only avant - garde movement not originating in Paris (Italy). It was around from 1909 - 1915 and a movement about breaking away with the past and using styles such as cubism to ‘noisily promote’ machinery, speed, modernity and change. Boccioni died aged 31 falling off horse but even though his life was short his work evolved a lot over this time. He was interested in modern subjects such as crowds and riots, things that had a lot of movement as he liked to link several movements together showing several times at once in one piece.
The Library of America • Story of the Week Reprinted from Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology (The Library of America, 2004), pages 82–90. Excerpt from Catlin’s Notes of Eight Years’ Travels and Residence in Europe (1848). George Catlin Catlin (1796–1872) is best known as the first and finest painter of Native American life, so it is surprising to learn that most of his adult life, from 1839 until 1870, was spent in Europe—though what he was doing there, of course, was seeking attention and money for his “gallery” with its collection of Indian pictures. On the whole, he had greater success with it in London and Paris than in America itself, and in 1845 he took the “gallery” complete with a representative cross section of Iowa Indians
His father was a Famous actor-Junius Brutus Booth. He was the ninth of ten children, and unlike everyone else in his family, he was a strong supporter of slavery. He followed in his father’s footsteps, kind of, and made his acting debut at the age of 17 in Baltimore. (Simkin) He did not join the Confederate Armey in the outbreak of the Civil War. In 1859, though, he joined the Virginia Militia and was took part in the capturing of John Brown at Harper’s Ferry.
In 1936, Alfred Steiglitz (a famous photographer from the early 1900s) gave Ansel a one-man show in his New York gallery. This was an admirable feat because Steiglitz has only done such things for one other young photographer. In 1946, Adams moved to Yosemite Valley, where he focused on his major subject from that point on – western landscapes. His work is a record of the wilderness as it was, the untouched natural environment. He had a strong belief that “photographs were not taken from the environment, but were made into something greater than themselves.” Ansel Adams has produced some of the most beautiful and stunning gelatin silver prints that the world has ever known.
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.