Forgetting Demeurisse René, artist of the lost generation
Essay - 7 pages - Art history
René Demeurisse (1895-1961) was an artist of the generation that fought the fire. In 1930 he exhibited a huge canvas titled "The Forgotten", at the Salon d'Automne. This masterpiece, which depicts the skeleton of a dead soldier in the humid forest of Retz, represents a sublime poetic death....
English painting from 1260 to debut late XVIIIth
Essay - 10 pages - Art history
In many countries, arts schools met with a block. Instead it is the freedom of individual talent that is the specificity of English painting. We see it fully realized, with Hogarth, and strive to reflect all of society. With Gainsborough, it expresses the heart of his poetic sensibility....
Forest Interior, Paul Cézanne
Case study - 3 pages - Art history
Paul Cézanne painted the landscape Forest Interior between 1898 and 1899. This small painting depicts the interior of a forest, at a nameless location. Cézanne regularly painted landscapes in Aix en Provence, like the Mont Sainte Victoire which he painted over and over again in an effort to...
St Luke portraying the Virgin, Roger Van der Weyden
Case study - 2 pages - Art history
Roger Van der Weyden's painting represents the Virgin Mary and Baby Christ on the left and St Luke in the foreground of the painting on their right. She sits in front of a bench whose armrest is a carving of Adam and Eve with the serpent. She holds the Christ Baby in her arms, offering him...
The Jocond by Léonard de Vinci exposed to the Louvre Museum
Essay - 2 pages - Art history
The Jocond or Mona Lisa's portrait is an Italian painting created Leonard da Vinci, between 1506 and 1509. Oil on panel of poplar wood sized 77 x 55 cm, it is displayed in the Louvre Museum in Paris. The Jocond is one of the rare paintings that are attributed with certainty to Leonard da...
Orientalism in French painting in the first part of the 19th century through Women of Algiers in their apartment by Delacroix
Essay - 5 pages - Art history
I have chosen to focus on ?Women of Algiers in their apartment' (1834) by Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863). He is usually considered the most important French romantic painter. His romantic mood led him to dream of the Orient (thanks to poems by Byron) before traveling in North Africa, in search...
The image of women in painting
Essay - 5 pages - Art history
In order to study the image of women in painting as reflecting changes in political and social context, I have chosen three works of art by three different artists, from three different periods. I will study these paintings in their historical context as a mirror of the evolutions of values. The...
American Art since 1945 to 1990
Essay - 17 pages - Art history
The post-war American citizen is obviously linked to postwar anxiety. The trauma of war experiences, and the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki made it obvious that peace had been won at the cost of innocence and insecurity. The bomb's potential for total world destruction brought...
Gustave Courbet & revolutionary Art after 1848
Essay - 4 pages - Art history
The idea of a revolutionary art could easily be related to famous artists, such as Malevich and his attempt to transform art into a collection of universal forms, Rimbaud and his will to crush down the language in order to crush down the world, Schoenberg and his dodecaphonism or even the Dada...
Jan Toorop
Essay - 18 pages - Art history
The works of Jan Toorop, in the context of the Dutch art and its interpretations, is the central theme of this document. The scope of his work ranges from the 17th century to the early 20th century. The decision to retain Jan Toorop as the central theme of the assignment is attributable to two...
