Ingres’ Jupiter and Thetis (1811) and Magritte’s The Liberator (1947) both reflect traditional gender roles. For example, Ingres and Magritte both center their male subject in their painting. Ingres shows how Jupiter has power over the woman. Magritte shows how the traveler is free to be in his own inner world, while the woman is trapped inside an object. The woman in Ingres’ painting has a submissive characteristic about her and clings to Jupiter, and the woman in Magritte’s painting has a passive characteristic about her and classified as an object. Both paintings have a dream like quality about them. The time period and significance in art was very different. Ingres’ Jupiter and Thetis was after the French Revolution, and Magritte painted …show more content…
The Liberator post World War II. Magritte did his painting during the time of communism and the aftermath of the war.
Ingres’s style of painting was Academic, and Magritte’s style was known as the “Vache Period.” Both paintings have a very similar color palette such as the use of reds, oranges, and blues that was used by both artists. The education was very different between these two artists. Magritte attended the school Academie Des Beaux Arts in Brussels, Belgium. Magritte did not enjoy going to school and he wanted to just focus on his art. He eventually dropped out of school to pursue his life as a fine artist. Magritte focused on Cubism and Surrealism. Magritte did not want to follow traditional concepts, unlike Ingres. Ingres was very conservative in his art, and he wanted to illustrate the elegance and power of the royal family. Ingres was surrounded by fine artists his whole life. Ingres’ father was an artist, which inspired Ingres as a little boy. He then began training at a very young age and traveled all over Europe. Ingres continued to further his training and began submitting his work to the Salon, but was rejected many times. Magritte came from a very dysfunctional family. For instance, Magritte’s mother committed suicide by drowning herself in a river. The artist’s last image of his mother was of her face completely concealed and wrapped up
with white cloth. This certainly had an influence in his artwork. Over the years, Ingres focused on producing Neoclassical art and strongly expressed the idealized beauty of his subjects. When we look at Jupiter and Thetis, Jupiter was a god. Many aristocrats during the 19th century commissioned Ingres to paint the dominant middle class and to illustrate their true nature. In contrast, Magritte worked as a commercial artist and painted based on thought and emotion.
Claude Monet played an essential role in a development of Impressionism. He created many paintings by capturing powerful art from the world around him. He was born on November 14, 1840, in Paris, France. Later, his family moved to Le Havre, Normandy, France because of his father’s business. Claude Monet did drawings of the nature of Normandy and time spent along the beaches and noticing the nature. As a child, his father had always wanted him to go into the family grocery business, but he was interested in becoming an artist. He was known by people for his charcoal caricatures, this way he made money by selling them by the age of 15. Moreover, Claude went to take drawing lessons with a local artist, but his career in painting had not begun yet. He met artist Eugène Boudin, who became his teacher and taught him to use oil paints. Claude Monet
During Vincent Van Gogh’s childhood years, and even before he was born, impressionism was the most common form of art. Impressionism was a very limiting type of art, with certain colors and scenes one must paint with. A few artists had grown tired of impressionism, however, and wanted to create their own genre of art. These artists, including Paul Gaugin, Vincent Van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Paul Cezanne, hoped to better express themselves by painting ...
One of my all time favorite music piece is, Drops Of Jupiter, by the band Train. And I am going to compare it to one of the music pieces that we studied in class, Wozzeck, Act 3, Scene 4, composed by Alban Berg. I chose to compare these two pieces, because they are both very different, but after researching both of these pieces, and reading over the notes that I took in class, I realized that these two pieces also have a few similarities. And I though it would be very interesting to compare the two.
Georges Seurat was born in Paris, France on December 2, 1859. He lived with his mother, Ernestine Faivre, and his two older siblings. His interest in art started in his early childhood and he eventually was encouraged by his uncle, an amateur painter and textile dealer, who gave him his first art lessons. Then in 1875, Seurat entered an art school where he started receiving professional lessons from sculptor Justin Lequiene. About three years later, he entered Ecole des Beaux Arts School and began sketching from plaster casts and live models. On his free time he would visit libraries and art museums in Paris and seek instruction from other well known artists. Michel-Eugene Chevreul was one of the artists who introduced Seurat to color theory. “Chevreul's discovery that by juxtaposing complementary colors one could produce the impression of another color became one of the bases for Seurat's Divisionist technique” (Remer). Seurat served in the Brest military for one year then returned to Paris and immediately continued with art. His first major painting was Bathers at Asnieres which was rejected by the jury ...
Vincent was an influential post-Impressionist painter born in 1853, Netherlands. With Theo van Gogh’s association, Vincent met reputable Impressionist painters such as Émile Henri Bernard and Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin. Impressionism served as a platform for Vincent in developing his own style . He explored with colours, a stark contrast from his usual dark and sombre style. The influence of Japonisme charmed Vincent into residing in Arles where he began painting landscapes. Thereafter, Vincent voluntarily checked into Saint-Rémy sanatorium where his works reflected strong colours and lights of the countryside around him. His manic depression and epileptic condition, led to his suicide on July 27th 1890.
Imagine you can own one of the famous painting in the world. Which one would it be? What will you do with it? If I got to own a famous painting, I would hang it in my bedroom and I’ll show it to my family. In this situation, If needed to narrow it down it will be The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali or Nighthawks by Edward Hopper. These paintings are extremely different, and their artistic movement is opposite from one another. By the end of this essay, you’re going to know the differences and similarities of these paintings.
"Painting the impossible" is what Magritte liked to call giving "precedence to poetry over painting (Mathews 34)" In his and other Surrealist paintings there was a strong urge to challenge the integrity of the optical experience. For example, the Rumanian-born Victor Brauner had decided to paint with his eyes closed, and Magritte directly challenged speech and thought with the incorporation of his betraying titles.
Henri Matisse was born December 31st, 1869 to two storeowners, Emile and Heloise Matisse. His father wanted him to be a lawyer, so later on in life he could takeover the family business. They sent him to Henri Martin Grammar School where he studied to be a lawyer. There was a hint of artist in Henri because while working as a lawyer’s assistant he took up a drawing course (Essers 7). It was for curtain design but it seemed to be destiny for a lawyer’s assistant to take up such a distant hobby as drawing.
Although from the same artist group, these Impressionists originated from backgrounds that seemed worlds apart. Claude Monet, known as the “Master Impressionist” varied the themes in his artwork more than any other artist did. Monet’s work “Impression Sunrise”, of which the term “Impressionist” originates also gives rise to the title “Master Impressionist”. Edgar Degas started his career as an artist with nothing in common with Monet but the era in which they lived. From themes to brushstrokes and choices of colours, Monet and Degas started their relationship as Impressionist artists on opposite ends of the earth. However, towards the climax of their lives as artists, Monet aided Degas in adopting Impressionist Aesthetic qualities.
difference in this painting is that it has brighter colors and takes on more of a feminine
Rene Magritte was an enigmatic and strange man who painted surrealism paintings. Little is known about his childhood except that his mother, Regine Magritte took her own life by drowning herself in the Sambre river. Young Magritte is thought to have discovered her body floating with her night garment covering her face. There is speculation that this trauma was an influence on many of Magritte’s works. When Rene Magritte took up his brushes, he created beautiful visual riddles that delight and bewilder the viewer. His clean lines and highly detailed finishes made his brush strokes nearly invisible; his paintings look as if they came from a printing press. Magritte referred to his paintings as “his labors.” He did labor over the paintings and the questions and answers that spawned them in his imagination. His art poses questions, seeks answers, and challenges the conventional definition of ideas. He came to the surrealist style of art in the 1920’s and has produced some of the most beautiful and moving art in the world. He was a shy and introverted man who loathed the social familiarity that society imposed on its celebrities. He liked to maintain social boundaries and was rather reclusive, ironically, he routinely used people as objects and removed the boundaries of association between objects to create his visual riddles. He did not like to be recognized and that came to be one of the running themes in his works. Always the enigmatic secret agent man, Magritte is as much a riddle as his paintings.
René Magritte was a surrealist artist that created many beautiful works of art. He was well known for a number of captivating paintings. Magritte depicted mundane objects in unorthodox situations, and his work is well known for its unconventional perceptions of reality. Magritte is famous for a lot of unsettling works such as The Son of Man, Le Blanc Seing and the infamous pipe that is not a pipe in The Treachery of Images. Also, in the 1950s, Magritte created a series of works he titled The Empire of Lights also known as L’Empire des lumières or, The Dominion of Light in which Magritte uses the conflicting settings of day and night to create a wonderfully but unsettling feeling of confusion when first glancing upon the painting. He creates
Claude Monet is often considered one of greatest most dedicated of the Impressionist painters. His aim was to catch the light and atmosphere, something that was scarcely done before. He enjoyed painting outdoors and developed a free and spontaneous painting technique. His brushwork is remarkably flexible and varied. He often changed his technique, sometimes broad and sweeping other times dappled and sparkling.
Claude Monet is often accredited as the leading member of the Impressionist movement. His work in Impression, Sunrise is the painting that gave birth to the movement. Here we can perceive Monet’s use of a limited palette: muddy blues and gray establish a somewhat somber mood – contrasted by a bright orange, representing the sun at dusk. Seizing the viewer’s attention is a figure in a boat, an effect the artist has achieved by painting the background boats a lighter, blurrier gray. Not only is this technique executed in this painting, but on a vast majority of Monet’s work. However, Monet’s Water Lilies series could serve as a counterclaim to such statement, as they fail so focus on a single subject, instead blurring everything on the canvas. Edgar Degas exceeds beyond Bardo’s definition of Impressionism. Though his seamless use of perspective and focus on subjects appear a good fit to the Impressionist movement, Degas referred to himself as a Realist or Independent artist. Indeed, he did share a preference for depicting the middle class – emphasizing figures, lights, and shadows – rejecting the Impressionist color theory.
These works may be labeled objectifying also because a male painter painted them. Today, these works could be seen as empowering to women. The first painting gives off an emotional ride of one duplicated woman or two women. The second painting shows an emotional journey of prayer and relaxation of a woman sitting in the lotus position. The third painting could represent a strong and empowered women respecting herself and her body. Times have changed and so have views of women in society which have influenced a change in how people view nude women in