Throughout history, there have been different types of art that has risen to fame. But why and how has it become such a symbol in the world? So today I picked a well-known painting that many people may have seen and heard about, the American Gothic.
Art, a visual expression of events, thoughts, emotions, and agendas, completely made up of lines, colors, perceivable and unperceivable ideals, topography of paint and structure, and the overall response to the work as it is interpreted. Art can be anything from the purposeful organization of items in nature as in earthworks, to the random spatter patterns of abstract. To critique art, one must be able to identify the components that make up the work of which is being critiqued. Composition is the key element; it provides the artist with the logic within which to organize a work (LaCaruba, Starter Kit). Then one must identify the principles of the composition; line, directional forces, shape, color and value. Think of it as art DNA, you
Vincent Van Gogh was the greatest artist in European history. Someone who is the greatest artist in European history must have a life full of art and personal art work. They will have had to work hard to get recognized and must have put lots of effort into their work. They must have very important pieces of art and they need to have invented or created a fantastic new form of art. Although known for his sad depression and unsuccessful first attempts at painting, Vincent Van Gogh is the greatest artist in European history because he was ahead of his time with his impressionist paintings, he never gave up on his artwork, and his paintings are some of the most popular in the world.
Paul Gauguin was born in Paris, France on June 7th, 1848. When he was a young child, he traveled to Peru with his family for his father to advance his career in journalism. During the trip, Gauguin’s father died of a heart attack and Gauguin was raised by his mother. In 1854, his family lost their social status and Gauguin, his mother, and his sister returned to France. Gauguin was eventually left under the care of his grandfather in Orleans. After attending several preparatory schools, he entered the French Navy at the age of 18 and served for two years. During this time, his mother passed away but he did not learn of this for several months. After serving in the Navy, Gauguin returned to Paris and began working as a stockbroker. He became very successful in his field and began painting in his spare time. After the stock market collapsed, Gauguin moved to Copenhagen with his family and began painting full time. He also began painting with artists like Camille Pissarro and Paul Cézanne. He separated from his wife and moved with
When it came to schooling; Pablo Picasso was known to be a terrible student to classes. While Pablo was growing up as a child he lost interest in school so he resorted to sketching through each class that lost his attention. When Pablo Picasso reached his teens in 1895; he soon but himself into a fine art school in Barcelona, Spain where he retreated to his old habits and started to skip his classes. Then two years later he moved and repeated his old habits at Royal Academy of San Fernando. So, then he ran and joined an artistic spree of people where he learned from others about the arts on his own terms.
The spanish artist Pablo Picasso is one of the world 's most famous and well known artist of all times. From a very young age, Picasso knew his passion was to draw. He was not a good student in school, so at age thirteen he decided to drop out of school to spend more time drawing during the day, so he can doodle and work on his drawing skills. Pablo Picasso worked on different types of art forms such as painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, and ceramic art. His top five famous works are The Weeping Woman, Guernica, Asleep, Nude Green Leaves and Bust, and finally Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. He is also well known for creating an art form of cubism with Georges Braque. In his life he has accomplished many things and proven himself that he is a talented artist.
Although during the Second Industrial Revolution they used many of the same styles they have used in the past, there were many changes to society during this time. This revolution changed society socially because there is improved health and education and a shift in the social classes. Society changed through art because there is new styles of art and architecture being created. Scientific breakthroughs also helped change society because people like Albert Einstein and Marie Curie created discovered new technologies that would help society advance. The Second Industrial Revolution changed society socially, through art and through scientific breakthroughs.
' 'work of art which did not begin In emotion is not art’’(Paul Cezanne).Every one of this world has been created uniquely.This is similar to the artist of the 19th century including Paul Cezanne(1839-1906) and Pierre Auguste Renoir(1842-1919).Both are from French.In addition Paul, Cezanne was a shy, rude and angry man.His new ideas and intense style of painting changed the history of art so, he is known as the father of modern art (Zurarakhinsky 2018)On the other hand, Pierre Auguste Renoir had a pleasant personality and he painted many paintings demonstrating joyful scenario(www.biography.com 2016).In spite of rheumatoid arthritis, he devoted himself in painting till the end of life(www.biography.com 2016)though they had committed their whole life to painting, their art movements,subject matter of painting and influences has seemed totally opposite to each other but still, both loved to paint portraits and nude women.
In the beginning of the 20th century was the modernism era. It included amazing and famous painters, sculptors, draughtsmen, and printmakers. In this era an amazing artist was born called Henri Matisse. He was born in 31, December 1869 in Le Cateau-Cambrésis in Northern France. He was a painter, sculptor, drafts man, and printmaker. His mother was an amateur painter and his father was a corn merchant. He studied law from 1887 to 1891 and then decided to go to Paris, to become a painter. He drew some amazing paintings and all of them had a story behind it. He drew paintings to pass time. He painted his first masterpiece in 1897, it was called The Dinner Table.
Diego Rivera is one of, if not the most, famous artist to ever come out of South America. His influence can be seen not only to his own country, but also all over the world. Rivera was born on December 13, 1886, the date of one of many Mexican religious festivals, in Guanajuato. He was the first in a set of twins. His twin brother’s name was José Carlos and he died at the age of one and a half. As a matter of fact, his whole name was actually Diego Mariade la Concepcion Juan Nepolmuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez. Fortunately, in later years Rivera did not have to use all of his names when he signed his artwork. On his early pieces he used the name Diego Mariade Rivera to distinguish himself from his father, though shortened it to simply Diego Rivera later on.
Camille Pissarro is born in the U.S Virgin Islands in 1830. He is born part French and part Danish from his parents. He moved to Paris at the age of 12 to pursue his career overseas. During his time overseas, he became interested in the French Arts, especially in the philosophy of anarchism. Overseas, he also studies in different institutes to learn more about the arts. He also lived through the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, but his paintings were destroyed in the war. He moved from place to place to find inspiration for his painting around Paris.
In 1889, appendicitis left a young Matisse bedridden. His mother him a paint box while he was infirmed. For the rest of his life, the joy, void, and nostalgia of creating art would haunt
Monet was born November 14, 1840 in Paris France. At age 5 he moved with his parents and older brother, Leon, to Le Havre, France. Here he would spend the rest of his childhood and most of his teen years. Claude’s interest in art had started
Vincent Van Goh was born in Zundert Netherlands on march 30th 1853. He was a very quiet and serious child and loved to draw. As a young man he worked as an art dealer often traveling but became depressed after being transferred to London. He turned to religion and spent time as a protestant missionary in southern Belgium. He drifted into ill health and solitude before taking up painting in 1881 after having moved back home with his parents.
Piet Mondrian was a Dutch painter, theorist and writer. He contributed to the De Stijl art movement. He developed Neoplasticism from non-representational forms. The main elements of his geometrical works were white rectangles, black lines and three primary colors. He loved Jazz music. It shows on his works. He designed never walked into Netherlands when he heard about Jazz music was banned in Netherlands because it harmed the unsophisticated customs. He was born in a turbulent time. However, we can find a sense of peace and order in his work. Perhaps, he wanted to escape from the reality by creating his new world on canvas. Mondrian influenced by Van Gogh. He applied impressionist techniques in his early work, such as still life sketches and landscapes. He used pure colors and expressive brushstrokes under the influence of Luminism, Pointillism and Fauvism. He gained inspirations from religion and music.