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...

Impressionism was a form of art in the late nineteenth century that used luminosity, subtlety of tone and preoccupation with sensation. The impressionist subject matter preserved the romantic fascination with nature and the realist preoccupation with late century French society. An example of an imp...

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...

Since the beginning of time, there have been specific groups that have had revolutionary ideas and acted upon them. Such movements have always been met with disapproval, but usually seem to settle into the mainstream of society. The late in the nineteenth century saw such an occurrence, as an arti...

A special chapter in the history of modern sculpture could be devoted to artists who are known primarily for their careers as painters but who also made groundbreaking contributions to the understanding of three-dimensional form. Henri Matisse, celebrated as one of this century\'s greatest colorists...

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 ...

The Picture of Dorian Gray, written by Oscar Wilde, portrays the theme of good vs. evil. At the opening of the novel, Dorian Gray exists as something of an ideal: he is the of male youth and beauty. As such, he captures the imagination of Basil Hallward, a painter, and Lord Henry Wotton, a ...

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 ...

22The group of seven achieved international acclaim, won their fight against the Canadian Academy, and found their way into the hearts of Canadians. The Group of Seven became ever more aware of the role they played towards art in Canada. They were like missionaries trying to convince the Canadian pu...

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...

The art of the Cuban culture goes back to prehistoric times when the first traces were found in caves. This type of art was later labeled as \"folk art\" because of its nature and craftsmanship. During the 15th and 16th centuries, the island was full of poverty and not much art streamed out. Painter...

The reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), experienced an emphasis on public righteousness and moral propriety. Victorian society was largely highlighted by the industrial revolution which had been rapidly transforming rural areas into industrialized landscapes. However, this development pushed the lo...

Art in Thailand is mainly found in Bangkok. Bangkok has been the capital of Thailand since 1782. It has many elegant and beautiful ancient buildings, the oldest originating around 5,000 years ago. Since this time, the style and color of architecture and art have changed drastically. This paper will ...

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...

Our ancestors first sought to understand themselves and their surroundings through the invention of myths and the worshipping of gods. The Greeks, for example, created gods like Athena and Aries to explain the concept of wisdom and war respectively. I would like to think, contrary to common thought...

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...

Pointillism has truly been the beginning of a new error within time itself. Its creation came from an offshoot of Impressionism, and is usually classified as a form of Post-Impressionism. It is very similar to Divisionism, but where Divisionism is concerned with the color theory, Pointillism is focu...

Cubism is a form of art that was created, mainly, by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in Paris between 1907 and 1914. The style emphasizes a flat, two-dimensional plane, contradictory to the techniques of perspective and foreshortening. The main distinguishing characteristic between cubism and oth...

In 1872, Piet Mondrian was born in Amersfoort, Netherlands. He grew up interested in painting and the surrounding environment. Following the standard painting style of the time, which was impressionism Mondrian, began painting. He studies at The Amsterdam Academy of Fine Arts. He started off painti...

Plato\'s belief was that art is fundamentally based on imitation. It was this imitation which made art inferior, combined with the unsuitable moral content of some art. Plato\'s condemnation of art is seen by some as too rationalist and \"depriving it of all its charms\" (Otto Apelt). Modern obje...

The Picture of Dorian Gray, the only full-length novel ever written by the legendary playwright Oscar Wilde, is one of the most notorious books of the 19th century. With its overtones of supernaturalism, its refusal to satisfy popular morality, and its portrayal of homoerotic culture, The Picture of...