In the late nineteenth century, a group of painters who were considered radical broke many of the rules of painting set by earlier generations. Monet, Renoir, Sisley, and Pissaro worked in close contact with one another in France between 1965 and 1890. They all painted in a style that French art cr...

Claude Monet was a French landscape painter and a founder of Impressionism. He held onto the belief of his painting style throughout his long career and is considered to be the most consistently representative painter of that time. He is also one of the leading painters of landscapes in the histor...

Art critics first used the term \"post-impressionistic\" in 1911 to loosely describe the work of a few artists whose paintings reflect Impressionistic principles but were created after the movement had lost favor in the late seventeenth century (around 1885). Significant artists whose works have bee...

Post Impressionism, as the name would suggest, is the art movement that directly followed Impressionism. One artist who led the Post Impressionism movement was the French artist, Paul Cézanne. Much of his early work was pure Impressionism and, although he was introduced to the style and guided by C...

In terms of style, it is relatively easy to recognize an Impressionist painting. There are certain characteristics that make this form of art stand out, such as the rough brush strokes and colors that often tend to blend into one another. However, in order to identify an Impressionist painting, one...

Towards the end of the nineteenth-century changes in the temperament of the social structure, and economic character of Europe caused artists to abandon previously held art-making conventions and instead seek to interpret the world in new and revolutionary means. \'More of an attitude than a specifi...

Art was one of the earliest manifestations of culture; this is because it fulfills humankind\'s need to interpret everything around them including their world and spiritual beliefs. Paleolithic art can be found to date back over thirty thousand years. The first discovery of this type of art ...

Camille Pissarro\'s painting style changed from one period of his career to another. Throughout his career, his approach to his art stayed the same. He did his artwork in a way that not only reflected what he saw but also who he was. Pissarro thought of light as \"inseparable\" from an object. With ...

The first sculpture that caught my attention, \"Las Mesas Bench,\" is a work by Jesus Bautista Morales. It portrays two ladies sitting on a bench talking while a man is sitting on another bench listening to them. His style and use of polished granite with rough edges seem to create a surprising and...

In comparing the ideality of art and the actual artifact, we will find that the results will normally vary widely according to the eye of the beholder. To impose a judgment of whether a painting can achieve the status of ideal form, one must first understand the purpose behind the piece of art. Ar...

Towards the later half of the nineteenth century, many artists were pursuing new avenues in their artistic representations. They were perturbed at the rigid and constricting regulations of the Salon, and some artists decided to form an independent exhibition. Claude Monet and his friends founded th...

Monet was born in Paris (1840), the son of a grocer. In his infancy, financial problems forced his family to leave the capital for Le Havre, where Monet\'s father set up a new business. The experience of living close to the sea, where the play of light on the ocean and in the sky changed so quickly ...

The Ecole des Beaux-Arts, also known as the Academy, was build during the reign of Louis XIV of France. The Academy was extremely significant in the 19th century because the works that were accepted into the Salon became the taste making body in French culture. Attendees of the Salon were generally...

In the Art Institute of Chicago, there is a painting that stands out in my mind. It is the painting "La Grande Jette" by George Seuret. The painting features Parisians enjoying a Sunday by the Seine, a river near Neuilly. Many of the Parisians that are pictured are very well to do. Proven by the va...

The Art and Life of Vincent van Gogh Vincent Van Gogh is one of the most distinguished modern artists. His early work depicts humble subjects, peasants mostly, with a gentle hand. Many of his other paintings are mostly room settings, and still lifes of flowers with such intensity that it would s...

Edgar Degas, after his death, was recognized as one of the masters of modern art and impressionism of the late 19th century. The proof of his genius is embedded in his paintings. He is considered an impressionistic painter but follows the beat of his own drummer when it comes to his artistic style...

Many famous artists have attempted to capture the human spirit and essence of movement, but few have achieved the beautiful embodiment of it as Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas has. Dancers become immortalized and horses take on elegant qualities through Degas\'s deft, swift, Impressionist brush strokes...

Edgar Degas: Capturing the Human Spirit Many famous artists have attempted to capture the human spirit and essence of movement, but few have achieved the beautiful embodiment of it like Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas has. Dancers become immortalized and horses take on elegant qualities through Dega...

Gustave CaillebotteThough mostly known for his patronage of well-respected figures like Renoir and Monet, and his generous contribution of his Impressionist collection to the French government, Gustave Caillebotte was also a very sensitive and intense artist. Influenced by the structural and emotion...

Candy Elliott-RiesArt 101 ETMr. Tim HahnFinal PaperPaul CezanneCezanne was born at Aix-en-Provence in the south of France on January 19, 1839. Cezanne developed artistic interests at an early age. His father was a common laborer then became a hatter and, eventually, a successful wealthy banker. H...

Paul Cezanne, who was the son of a wealthy banker, became a painter in the 1860s in Paris when he quit his studies of Law. By 1874 he was painting landscapes in the Impressionist manner and had some of his work included in their first exhibition held during that very same year.He painted in the Impr...