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Art History
Post Impressionism
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Pointillism
Henri-Edmond Cross
Henri-Edmond-Joseph Delacroix was a French artist focused on pointillism and neo-impressionism. He was born in 1856 at Douai, France. His family later moved to a city in northern France near Belgian border. One of his relative which is Dr. Auguste Soins supported him with his art carrier.
Cross had well-demonstrated the use of pointilism technique. The emphasis on use of color and lighting could be seen. The colors are mainly pink, blue, lavender, and orange. The color used on upper part of sky also seems to be complementary with the bottom, showing the contrast but with a smooth transition. The artist also express themes like the delication of nature in everyday life.
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Japonisme
Claude Monet
Monet was a French impressionist artist born in 1840 at Paris, and raised in Le Havre, Monet began as a caricaturist but soon turned to paint landscapes. After, he started to focus on the impressionist paintings.
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This is a painting of Monet's first wife Camille dressed in Kimono. He used vibrant red and gold color for this painting to emphasize Camille and her dressing at the front. The painting also showed impressionism characteristic by the loose brushstroke especially on fabric. The painting strongly emphasize the theme and expression of Japanese culture, with the traditional dressing Kimono and Japanese fans at the background.
In General
Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne was a french artist who has been significant in contribution to modern painting. He was born in 1839 at Aix-en-Provence, France. He was taught as a law student but later moved to Paris to pursue art. During the Franco-Prussian War, he escaped to Estaque. He focused on structure, shape and color more than other impressionist artist did on light.
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The painting presents skull of human stacked in a pyramid structure. The drawing has an triangular structure which makes the focus concentrated on the skulls. Cezanne did not use vibrant colors and bright palette, instead he put the focus on texture and forms of the painting. The artist gave a thick and rough brushstroke on the painting, especially for the skulls. The painting could reflect a deeper meaning in inevitability of death and nature of life.
Synthetism
Paul Gauguin
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, 1897
The composition of the painting is continuous when looking horizontally. The blue and yellow color used also contributes to the main theme of the painting, giving the painting a mysticall mood. There is a lot to mention about the theme of the painting. If observe it from right to left a journey of life could be seen. From the birth at the right end to the older woman at the left end symbolizing the end of life.
Gauguin was born in Paris in 1848. For most of his childhood, he stayed at Lima, Peru. After he returned to France, he also traveled around the world for various reasons, and this is where he got inspired with Primitivism. Later on, he painted various of painting related to synthetism and primitivism.
Cubism
Analytical
The early stage of cubism were also recogonized as Analytical Cubism. It is characterized for its fragmented image with multiple viewpoint portraied on a flat surface.
Georges Braque
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Violin and palette is a key example of analytical cubism painting. It depicted a violin with its surrounding objects. The painting used a muted tone for color pallet and the fragmented indivisual pieces shows different perspective and depth.
Synthetic
Pablo Picasso
Guitar, Sheet Music, Glass,1912
This painting represents some of the deconstructed elements, such as guitar, sheet music and newspaper. Each of them are broken down into simpler geometric shapes. Contrasting to analytical cubism with its complex fragmented shape, synthetic cubism started to became simpler and involved more of these collage elements.
Synthetic Cubism was the later stage of cubism where artist experimenced with adding texture and patterns to painting. It is also mixed of difference media and variety of colors.
Orphism
Orphism is an artistic movement emphasizing the use of vibrant colors, lights, and dynamic forms to express feelings and emotions, just like music.
Sonia Delaunay
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The painting uses vibrant and constasting colors with circular forms to express Delaunay's feelings. She wanted to use these colors and shapes to also depict a sense of motion. The painting was inspired when Delaunay was walking down a street and saw the electric lamplights.
Futurism
An artistisc movement originated from Italy focusing on speed, energy and influence of machine. Emphasizing the rapidly changing modern world.
Giacomo Balla
Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, 1912
This painting by Balla depicts a woman (walking?) a dog. The repeated and fragmented leg of dog and leash reflects a rapid movement. The vibrant color used and blur also contributes to futurist idea of movement and energy. The surrounding environment of dog are also abstracted, showing a sense of motion.
Vorticism
Similar to futurism, vorticism also featured elements like dynamism, industrialization and modern world. However, contrsting to futurism, vorticism is more abstracted and used more geometric shapes.
Wyndham Lewis
Blast, no. 2: War Number, 1915
Blast, no. 2: War Number is not a painting but rather a publication on magazine with vortist style. The painting depicts people holding gun in a row. Considering that this was published during world war 1, it reflects vortist artist's perspective toward war. Instead of depicting it as a tragic event, but represented as a powerful force in modern days.
