In Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, Claude Debussy was born on August 22, 1862. By the time he was nine, Debussy became skilled at playing the piano. Debussy was encouraged to enter the Paris Conservatory in 1873. At this conservatory, he studied the piano and its structure. In 1884, with his cantata The Prodigal Child, Debussy won the Grand Prix de Rome. Debussy’s childhood was filled with many troubling situations. It was quite a bumpy ride. He was faced with problems, both substantial and emotional. He lived with his parents in the suburbs of Paris. They struggled living in poverty. Unpredictably, Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck, a Russian millionaire, took Debussy under her patronage. Throughout Europe, she and Debussy traveled to grand residences,
Dumas’s novels have had a profound impact on the world in many ways specifically through just the amount of literature he has contributed. Totaling at about 300 volumes, Alexandre’s output of literary works is massive and they range in variety from novels to plays, and even a cookbook. (Dumas) Each has had their own impact on the literary world and sometimes it even spreads further than that. And it went so far, as to with any adept writer, affect the works of other writers. Robert Stowell explains the likely possibility of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights being influenced by The Count of Monte Cristo.
As Pablo Picasso once said, “Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.” Picasso’s passion for art started at a young age, getting his passion for art from his father. Pablo Picasso is known for the innovative techniques he introduced to the art world. Each being influenced from his life around him, to modifications in the colors he utilized, or transitioning to an unorthodox style of painting, and even practicing printmaking.
In 1908, Henri Cartier-Bresson was conceived on August 22nd in Chanteloup, Seine-et-Marne and instructed at the Lycée Condorcet, Paris. In 1926, he considered painting under Andre Lhote. Takes his initially photos. 1931: Finds a photo by Martin Munkacsi in expressions of the human experience magazine Expressions et Metiers Graphiques and chooses to concentrate on photography. In 1935, Shows with Manuel Alvarez Bravo at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico and after one month at the Julien Impose Exhibition with Walker Evans and Manuel Alvarez-Bravo. 1936: Acts as second aide to Jean Renoir on Une partie de campagne (A Day in the Nation) and La strive est a nous. In 1937, He coordinates two documentaries: Victoire de la strive (Come back to Life) on the medicinal care of Republican Spain and With the Abraham Lincoln Unit, on the American soldier's' life amid the Second World War. 1944: Takes a progression of photographic representations of essayists and craftsmen for Versions Braun (Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso,
With such a refine way of making music in the 19th century, Claude Debussy strayed from the norm with his strange musical innovations. It was apparent from an early age just how gifted Debussy was musically. By age 11 he sent to Paris Conservatory, and by age 22 won the Prix de Rome. With such musical accomplishments, he was able to settle himself as a leading figure in French music. Incorporating such nontraditional scales and tonal structures into his work provided him with a foundation that would later establish him as a founder of musical impression in the late 19th and 20th century (Claude Debussy Biography).
Madame (Mme.) Mauté was an excellent teacher, able to easily teach what she had learned from Chopin, “whose ideals, thus assimilated, her young pupil never forgot” (Vallas 1973 4). Debussy passed the exam after only a few months of training with Mme. Mauté.
“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman” – this claim may no longer seem groundbreaking in modern society, where many philosophers, such as Judith Butler, have insightfully explored the topic of “sex and gender”; nevertheless, when it firstly appeared in Simone de Beauvoir’s book, The Second Sex, in 1949, it was an extremely bold and controversial statement. As described in de Beauvoir’s biography, Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography, written by a well-known biographer, Deirdre Bair, this book put de Beauvoir in a situation that even after her death in 1986, some of her relatives still considered her as “a shameless flaunter of social convention, the most public sinner in all
Have you ever heard of Edgar Degas? If you have studied the art of impressionism, his name might be familiar to you. Edgar Degas is a well known French artist for his sculptures, paintings and drawings. His works continue to live throughout history and are still studied by many people today. His works contained of impressionism, modern art, pastel art, and realism.
In the last twenty years women have gained greater equality in many areas. Women are now accepted in politics and the corporate world. Men, for thousands of years, filled the role of the protector and care provider, but as civilization developed, men never made room for women. In most cases of power and leadership of large groups of people males held the most important of positions. Simone De Beauvoir wrote about the same issue in the nineteen fifties that many people are still discussing today. Women had their place, they were to take care of the children, and they are to be married and having children as soon as possible. For millennia that was the place of women. Recently however, women have gained freedoms and respect in a world of men. There are women working next to men as Chief Executive Officers (CEO’s) and
Famous French-American artist-cum-chess player Marcel Duchamp once said, “The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.” Duchamp, a highly unorthodox artist of his time, was often hailed as being the Father of Contemporary Art. He detested the so-called “retinal” art of his peers, and strove to make it something deeper—something that manifested its meaning through the lens of the viewer’s mind rather than through the retinas of their eyes. Duchamp believed that over the years, artists and society in general had grown accustomed to what their ancestors have created before them. He believed that art came from within, and was an idea
The artist that I was assigned was Claude Monet, I learned things about his life, and things about all of his amazing paintings. Claude Monet was born on November 14, 1840 in Paris, France who became an amazing impressionist artist. Claude Monet went to Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts which is a college in Paris, France which is where he learned much more about painting. Around 1874 Monet's work had been noticed by a critic and the critic had tried to insult Monet's work since he had focused more on the light and the form instead of the paintings realism. All throughout Monet's life he had depression and illness. Later in Monet's life he had slowly started to lose his eyesight and it got worse and worse until he had died. People had
Alexandre Dumas was born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie in Villers-Cotterêts, France. He was born on July 24, 1802, the son of Marie Louise Labouret and General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas. According to Biography, “The Dumas family name was adopted from Alexandre’s grandmother, an enslaved Haitian woman named Marie-Cesette Dumas” (Biography 1). At the age of four, his father died of cancer, and although his family was poor, Dumas was able to advance in life due to his father’s reputation and aristocratic rank. He attended Abbe Gregoire’s school, until he left at the age of eleven to work for a local notary. When he turned twenty, he left home to move to Paris, where he worked as a scribe for Louis-Philipe, the Duke of Orleans, at the Palais Royal.
As a 15 year old art prodigy Pablo Picasso enrolled at the Royal Academy of Art in Barcelona, Spain there he took advanced classes for the next four years learning how to incorporate his ideas and concepts into art. After completing his degree he moved to Southern France where his paintings became famous for their cutting edge style of prominent color and real life depictions of Picasso himself. For example, during Picassos Blue Period he had volatile relationships with women, financial issues, and bouts with depression, these transgressions become more apparent in his paintings as an outlet for his feelings and emotions. Being poor Pablo had no choice but to use materials such as the inexpensive blue and green colors found in local markets
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” (good reads) This is a famous quote by the great painter Edgar Degas. Edgar degas was born in July 19, 1834 in Paris to upper middle class family. Regardless of his father’s desire for him to go to law school, Degas wanted to focus on painting. In 1855 Edgar Degas got admission in the Ecole des Beaux – Arts, and studied drawing there (Edgar Degas biography). In the later 1860s he was allowed to exhibit his painting in the institution of salon In in Paris, but he was not selling his arts. In the beginning of his career degas was not depended on the sales of his work because of his family wealth. In 1874 his father passes away and his brother René went bankrupt as well, so he was
Pablo Picasso The world should be seen by colors not just black and white. “The truth is in the eye of the beholder.” Pablo Picasso, believed that modern art was in fact, corrupting a free form type art. His statement “We all know that Art is not the truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand.
Born on December 12 1821 in Rouen, Region of France Gustave Flaubert was born to Achille Cléophas Flaubert and his mother Anne Justine were very well respected people Flaubert’s father “was a well respected chief surgeon and his mother was a doctor’s daughter belonged to a family of distinguished magistrates typical of the great provincial bourgeoisie” (Barzun). “Flaubert was in poor health for most of his childhood and was not expected to live to adulthood”(Grade Saver). Flaubert’s “younger sister Caroline was also very sick as a child and she died in childbirth at age twenty-one”(Grade Saver). “Despite her early death she greatly affected Flaubert and was a strong feminine influence on him”(Grade Saver). That being said we can establish that The life events of Gustave Flaubert were reflected in his works.