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Paul Cézanne was born in Aix-en-Provence, north of Marseille, on January 19th, 1839. Cezanne’s father co-founded a banking firm and had great economic success. This gave Cezanne financial security in the beginnings of his art career, unlike many of his fellow artists who often struggled. His mother was a very vivacious woman and had zest for life, which led to Cezanne’s artistic vision. At a young age, he became very close friends with fellow artist Émile Zola, who helped Cezanne in his artistic…
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an iteration of Mont Sainte Victoire by Paul Cezanne. It is clear that the form and style of the two pieces is undeniably similar. Paul Cezanne painted a landscape of Mont Sainte Victoire, an everyday sight for anyone living in France at that time. The common misconception was to simply paint every detail as accurately as artistically possible according to how it was at that point in time in nature. The popular style for the society was realism but Cezanne was attempting to push past this old style…
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CORC 1120 Fall 2010 Museum Paper Paul Cezanne is one of the most famous French artists of the 20th century. His works and ideas were influenced by impressionism. Although his work was misunderstood and rejected by the people of his time, his reputation increased both for the way he created a painting through what his eyes saw in nature and for his unique quality of painting art which he achieved through color, space and mass. Through thorough inspection of Paul Cezanne’s watercolor-like oil painting…
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Paul Cezanne was a French artist and painter. He started painting The Bathers around 1885. Cezanne generated a large series of The Bathers first exhibit in 1905. Paul created this one specific Bather painting symbolizing several different aspects and visions. He would generally paint compositions of male and female bather’s nude. The traditional painting was created of a male figure in a landscape. Cezanne painted the artwork from a photograph of a boy standing alone in a studio in a bathing suit…
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IWT Task 1 Western Governors University Literature, Arts and the Humanities IWT1 IWT Task 1 Abstract Artwork is defined as: a painting, sculpture, photograph, etc., that is created to be beautiful or to express an important idea or feeling: an artistic work. (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/artwork) and dates back to the Old Stone Ages. Artists capture certain moments in time and express their inspiration in a vast array of styles, such as; social and political events, religious…
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Carefully read the following passage from the work of the Roman historian Cassius Dio. In this passage, how does Cassius Dio characterise Cleopatra? How does this compare with the other ancient written sources you have met in the chapter? Each author’s portrayal of Cleopatra varies depending on their own outlook, the material sources identified, and their moral, political and cultural influences. Specifically, Cassius Dio’s depiction of the Egyptian queen was written about 200 years after the relevant…
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Aristotle argued that one of the most important functions of art was to evoke emotions in its audiences. (pg. 68) Aristotle is a Greek philosopher who made significant and lasting contributions to nearly every aspect of human knowledge, from logic to biology and aesthetics. *Ask class to raise their hand if they think that evoking emotions in artwork is necessary or not necessary? Some people may say that it is not necessary because… th 20 century American philosopher and educator …
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impressionist painters. They all had studied the recent books on colour theory, and they know that orange placed next to azure blue made both colours much brighter. Auguste Renoir painted boats with stripes of chrome orange paint straight from the tube. Paul Cézanne did not use orange…
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artist by the name of Charles Gleyre. While a student of Gleyre at his studio, Renoir meet and became friends with three other young male artists: Alfred Sisley, Frédéric Bazille, and Claude Monet. With the assistance of Monet, Renoir also met Paul Cézanne and Camille Pissarro (3). Renoir, along with Monet, Sisley, and Bazille would go on to lead the Impressionist movement. Breaking the unwritten rules of traditional forms, while also working outside of a studio, Renoir and the others came up with…
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J. Robert Oppenheimer was born on April 22, 1904 in New York City. Oppenheimer was the son of Julius S. Oppenheimer and Ella Friedman. His father, Julius, was a wealthy merchant who fled Europe as a teenager to escape the Jewish persecution by joining a flood of émigrés who were also searching for religious freedom in the United States. Oppenheimer’s mother was Ella Friedman, she was an artist. Ella was also Jewish but her family had been residing in New York for a few generations. Julius…
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