Beaux arts

time was an absolute monarchy, a lot of the power is consolidated with the single ruler, the king. France became a very dominant artistic force in the Europe and western Culture replacing Italy and developing a much newer artistic catalog with their Art Academies where a lot of categories came in such as history painting, portrait painting and gender painting. France at the time was a class separation where the society was much divided. Government life was under the fifth republic and now more than

The Museum of Modern Art and its Impact on Museum Architecture During the early part of the twentieth century, the architecture of art museums shifted in the United States. As the role and purpose of museums changed with the times, so did the buildings that housed the artwork. Architects designed specific museum sites as opposed to converting royal palaces. While some museums take inspiration from other successful museums, others break the mold and become the new standard. The Louvre in Paris

Robert Goldwater a young American art historian (Getlein, 2012), where she lived until her death on May 31, 2010 (Layayo, 2015). The blood of being an artist has flown through her since her conception. She was born into a family that repaired seventeenth and eighteenth century tapestries (Layayo, 2015). Being an artist was her destiny, and her life provided her the tools she needed to achieve her purpose. While growing up in France she attended various schools of art schools that include Ecole du Louvre

The dictionary’s definition of Surrealism is a movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example, through juxtaposition. Originally, the Surrealist movement came from the Dada movement, only is was lighter in spirit. The movement was supposed to channel

Germany. This war led to one of the bloodiest rebellions in France and the creation of a new world order. Besides establishing the Third French Republic and the German Empire, the Franco-Prussian War had other far-reaching effects that expanded into the art world. Due to the raging war in France, Camille Pissarro became a refugee escaping from France to London to later become referred to as his colleagues as “the first impressionist.” (1) However, many of his works were destroyed and disparaged in the

(1862 – 1863) and Henri Matisse’s (ca. 1869 - 1954) Le Bonheur de Vivre (1905– 1906) had been. In Le Déjeuner Sur L’herbe (see fig 1), Manet painted a nude woman in a sensual country setting to challenge the idea of what the female nude is to be in art. Le Déjeuner is a Realism work and in concert with its subject, was a cause scandal which left

influential stylistic strain to emerge in art since the early seventies” (Salts, 2008), Relational Aesthetics, constructed by Nicolas Bourriaud in 1998, was a response to artists’ desire to rectify declining social bonds and a rejection of exhibition conventions prominent in the 1980s. This essay will explore why Relational Aesthetics was created, what types of works are considered ‘relational’ and the historical context surrounding the theory. Examples of ‘relational’ art, with an emphasis on the work of

In 1912, he developed cataracts in his right eye. In the art world, Monet was out of step with the avant-garde. But there was still a great deal of interest in Monet's work. During this period, Monet began a final series of 12 waterlily paintings commissioned by the Orangerie des Tuileries, a museum in Paris

the École des Beaux-Arts school in Paris, France. At the École des Beaux-Arts Marquet was under the tutelage of the famous painter Gustave Moreau. In addition to mastering his craft through Moreau’s instruction, Marquet befriended young artists Henri Matisse and Georges Rouault. As Marquet and Matisse aged, their style of artwork became extremely vibrant and bold in regard to their choices of color and contrasting tones. Eventually, in 1905, Marquet and Matisse could exhibit their art work at the Salon

Art is something that can be described and expressed in several different ways to communicate ideas and emotions through visualizations. Through art we are able to see the world like never before. It inspires and motivates us to be creative. We are able to think further and beyond. In addition, art gives us the ability to understand what artists are trying to display and the messages they are trying to convey through their works. Art can be found anywhere and created by anyone (Dewitte, Larmann,