Paul Cezanne
Introduction
-1839-1906, a French Post-Impressionism painter -he was born in a wealthy family and was extremely well-educated -his educational background made him think about culture -first artist who had a clear feeling of the nature of new problems -a man of independent means and regular habits, not dependent on buyers -aimed at an art which had something of grandeur and serenity -admired the new discoveries in the field of colour and modelling -painted the forms and colours he saw -abhorred messiness, wanted to return to ‘composed’ landscapes to achieve harmonious designs -longed for strong, intense colours and lucid patterns -convey the rich and unbroken tones -Father of Modern Art Still Life Series -best example to show as critique of Impressionism -combination of several factors -extraordinary ideas, intellectual approach -represent reality as he experienced it, reacted to it, engaged in it -beauty was expressed through coloured form -colour, structure and form -not look too promising -Still life with Apples, 1890-94 -simple life things -colour works independently -compare with peach -Still life with Onions and Bottle, 1895-1900 -Still life with Blue Vase, 1889-90 -Still life with Cherries, 1885-87 -Still life with Apples and Oranges, 1899 Landscape -focused more on essential forms and compositional relationships -‘go and look at pictures in the original' -Maison Maria with a View of Chateau Noir, 1895 -Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1885-95 -using just a few colours to show a particular and organic place -Mont Sainte-Victoire seen from the Bibemus Quarry, 1897 -changed from painting empirical world to painting the world of ideas -artistic subjectivity: focused on colour reform -Mont Sainte-Victoire en Chateau Noir, 1904-06 -a creative, conscious and very intentional position Portrait -Mme Cézanne, 1883-7, oil on canvas -wonderful portrait of his wife, great concentration on simple and clear-cut forms -show the impression of poise and tranquillity |
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Personal Thoughts:
Post-Impressionism was a time period after Impressionism and set up a new idea of art based on criticism of Impressionism. Paul Cezanne who was known as Father of Modern Art had developed his own style that focusing a lot on structure, form and colour. He was good at painting still life, landscape and portrait. Since he was born in a wealthy family, he didn't need to depend on sponsors to continue his life. The only thing in his life was pursuing art in his mind, pursuing harmony. I liked his series of still life because they were painted in his studio and made nonliving things alive. Cezanne was never afraid of using colour bravely, so his paintings were vivid and beautiful.
Post-Impressionism was a time period after Impressionism and set up a new idea of art based on criticism of Impressionism. Paul Cezanne who was known as Father of Modern Art had developed his own style that focusing a lot on structure, form and colour. He was good at painting still life, landscape and portrait. Since he was born in a wealthy family, he didn't need to depend on sponsors to continue his life. The only thing in his life was pursuing art in his mind, pursuing harmony. I liked his series of still life because they were painted in his studio and made nonliving things alive. Cezanne was never afraid of using colour bravely, so his paintings were vivid and beautiful.
Vincent van Gogh
Introduction
-one of the most important Post-Impressionism painter -he was born on March 30, 1853 in Netherlands and died on July 29, 1890 -he was a Dutch painter Art Work -Wheat Field with Cypresses, 1889 -oil painting & landscape painting -Bedroom in Arles, 1888 -oil on canvas -Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat, 1887 -oil on canvas -"I purposely bought a good enough mirror to work from myself, for want of a model." |
Thoughts:
According to what I learned from the videos, I knew Vincent van Gogh was a persistent artist with his own feelings and intuitions on art. He did not want to follow current trend to paint things without thinking and personal emotion. Although his life was sorrowful with anxiety and mental disturbance, he had not stopped loving art and pursuing art. The artistic and historical value of his paintings led later success of his art, even though Vincent van Gogh himself could not see that great success. The most important characteristic that we should learn from his life and career was persistence. He had his dream, same as us. Maybe our dreams are different, such as applying a good college, having a good job, establishing great business empire and so on, but only persistence can help us to achieve final success because when we meet difficulties, this character is really significant to help us overcome them.
According to what I learned from the videos, I knew Vincent van Gogh was a persistent artist with his own feelings and intuitions on art. He did not want to follow current trend to paint things without thinking and personal emotion. Although his life was sorrowful with anxiety and mental disturbance, he had not stopped loving art and pursuing art. The artistic and historical value of his paintings led later success of his art, even though Vincent van Gogh himself could not see that great success. The most important characteristic that we should learn from his life and career was persistence. He had his dream, same as us. Maybe our dreams are different, such as applying a good college, having a good job, establishing great business empire and so on, but only persistence can help us to achieve final success because when we meet difficulties, this character is really significant to help us overcome them.
Paul Gauguin
-a French Post-Impressionist artist
-born in June 7 1848, died in May 8 1903 -Te Rerioa(Daydreaming) -created in 1897 -oil on canvas -Self-portrait -created in 1893 -with Spirit of the Dead Watching -an oil painting on burlap -the object of this painting is a naked Tahitian girl, she is lying on her stomach, there is an old woman who wears black sitting behind her -Gauguin: "the title may refer to either the girl imaging the ghost, or the ghost imaging her."(Quote taken from Wikipedia) |
Relationship between Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin
-troubled but intensely productive
-they met in Paris in 1887
-both of them dreamed to start a commune of artists
-Gauguin presided over a little colony of artists in Brittany, so van Gogh followed Gauguin and lived on the Palace Lamartine for nine weeks
-van Gogh cut part of his ear because the relationship between Gauguin and him was broken, then Gauguin left
-van Gogh was famous after his death which caused Gauguin was envious, so he begun writing about his own genius
-Gauguin transplanted the Studio of the South to the South Seas, painted sunflowers, an object that van Gogh used to use
-they invented very different ways to make modern sacred art
-colours may be the best measure of their shared identity
(resources: The New York Times, CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Irritation as Inspiration, by MICHAEL KIMMELMAN)
Some Quotes:
-how van Gogh wanted to paint, “portraits that would appear after a country to the people living then as apparitions"
-Gauguin: “Art is an abstraction; draw it out from nature while dreaming in front of it."
-Gauguin: "'It is neither silk nor velvet nor muslin nor gold that creates this luxury but simply the material made rich by the artist.”
Personal Reflection based on the article:
Irritation and stress can help me fuel my creativity by pushing me forward. Without stress, there won’t be motivation to encourage me move forward, so irritation and stress are like motivation or fuel to me which can help me to become better. With irritation, I could think things in another way and actually evoke my creativity to come up with new ideas. It will help me both mentally and physically. As for now, studying is the most important thing that I need to focus on. Irritation on getting good grade or failing from a test will made me happy or sad, then, I will want to continue studying hard or finding my mistakes and becoming better. Then, I have my motivation, so I will put my effort into actions to push myself in order to finish what I want to achieve.
-troubled but intensely productive
-they met in Paris in 1887
-both of them dreamed to start a commune of artists
-Gauguin presided over a little colony of artists in Brittany, so van Gogh followed Gauguin and lived on the Palace Lamartine for nine weeks
-van Gogh cut part of his ear because the relationship between Gauguin and him was broken, then Gauguin left
-van Gogh was famous after his death which caused Gauguin was envious, so he begun writing about his own genius
-Gauguin transplanted the Studio of the South to the South Seas, painted sunflowers, an object that van Gogh used to use
-they invented very different ways to make modern sacred art
-colours may be the best measure of their shared identity
(resources: The New York Times, CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Irritation as Inspiration, by MICHAEL KIMMELMAN)
Some Quotes:
-how van Gogh wanted to paint, “portraits that would appear after a country to the people living then as apparitions"
-Gauguin: “Art is an abstraction; draw it out from nature while dreaming in front of it."
-Gauguin: "'It is neither silk nor velvet nor muslin nor gold that creates this luxury but simply the material made rich by the artist.”
Personal Reflection based on the article:
Irritation and stress can help me fuel my creativity by pushing me forward. Without stress, there won’t be motivation to encourage me move forward, so irritation and stress are like motivation or fuel to me which can help me to become better. With irritation, I could think things in another way and actually evoke my creativity to come up with new ideas. It will help me both mentally and physically. As for now, studying is the most important thing that I need to focus on. Irritation on getting good grade or failing from a test will made me happy or sad, then, I will want to continue studying hard or finding my mistakes and becoming better. Then, I have my motivation, so I will put my effort into actions to push myself in order to finish what I want to achieve.
Georges Seurat
-French Post-Impressionism painter, 1859-91
-solve art problem like a mathematical equation -Impressionists painting method as starting point -studied the scientific theory of colour vision and decided to build up his pictures by means of small regular dabs of unbroken colour like a mosaic -pointillism, endangered the legibility of his paintings -chromoluminarism: a very specific approach to painting that Seurat developed -painting with very tiny strokes or dots of pure colours -two colours that were ver close or slightly overlapping rather than mixing colours -The Circus Sideshow, 1889 -developed from current optical and colour theories -hoped to create painting that was structured about visually and theoretically that matched with modern scientific and optical advances and new colour theory and result high degree of luminosity -A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884-85 -a Post-Impressionis approach to a scene of Parisian leisure -linear figures, distance between strangers -hard to figure face expression -a panoramic view -the painting and critique of leisure have become iconic: cartoon, sculpture, to television series, relate to life -The Circus, 1891 -the use of bright orange and yellow coupled with stronger diagonals helps the painting be more animated -pure colours to form structures and shadows by blending colours -painting and painted complicit -monumentalized everyday life -Seurat died at the age of 31 -interdisciplinary aspect of art and art making -Neo-Impressionism, its grounding in Post-Impressionsim ideas influenced the early 20th century, growing trajectory towards abstraction and fragmentation |
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Thoughts and Opinions:
I think George Seurat was a smart artist who combined painting with science. He used thousands of dots to show a big view of a scene. It is really amazed and interesting to see his paintings because we can get different feelings when we look at them in different locations. Seurat was actually an artist between Post-Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism. Quote: "Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science." - George Seurat |
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
-a French painter, 1864-1901
-a painter of Post-Impressionism -new art of poster -had disability on his legs, fracture on both of his thighs, only 1.54m -unable to join activities at his age, only focus on his painting -less than 20 years career life as an artist -737 canvases, 275 watercolours, 363 prints and posters, 5084 drawings Quote: "I have tried to do what is true and not ideal." - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
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Thoughts and Opinions:
I think Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a insistent artist who had dream and never give up. He was disabled when he was 14, and he was not able to join others who were at same age with him to do activities with them because he was short. However, he had his favourite thing to do, painting. He focused on painting and produce posters as a form of art which was a new style in art history that I learned so far. As a student, I think we should learn about his persistance and continuity in our study.
I think Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a insistent artist who had dream and never give up. He was disabled when he was 14, and he was not able to join others who were at same age with him to do activities with them because he was short. However, he had his favourite thing to do, painting. He focused on painting and produce posters as a form of art which was a new style in art history that I learned so far. As a student, I think we should learn about his persistance and continuity in our study.
Bibliography
The Story of Art - E.H. Gombrich
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_of_the_Dead_Watching
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/04/arts/critic-s-notebook-irritation-as-inspiration.html
http://www.toulouse-lautrec-foundation.org/biography.html
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http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/g/georges_seurat.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_of_the_Dead_Watching
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/04/arts/critic-s-notebook-irritation-as-inspiration.html
http://www.toulouse-lautrec-foundation.org/biography.html
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/henri_de_toulouselautrec.html
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/g/georges_seurat.html