Guillaume Apollinaire should be ranked with the greatest poets of the twentieth century. Roman by birth, Polish by name (Wilhelm-Apollinaris de Kostrowitski), Parisian by choice, Apollinaire died at thirty-eight in 1918. Shortly before he died, author Jacques Vache wrote to Andre Breton, the leader of the Surrealist movement: "[Apollinaire] marks an epoch. The beautiful things we can do now!" Apollinaire’s brief career as a poet, writer, art critic and artist influenced the development of movements such as Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism and Dadaism. Apollinaire’s personality of bohemian, artistic, hilarious joking guy, food connoisseur and soldier, became a model for avant-garde deportment. Apollinaire’s importance is recognized by great literary innovators like Philippe Soupault, Louis Aragon, Jean Cocteau and …show more content…
Through the exhibition I explored Apollinaire’s mental and aesthetic universe, from Dourer Rousseau to Matisse, Picasso, Braque and Delaunay, from Cubism to Orphisim and Surrealism, from academic sources to modernity, tribal arts to popular arts. I could see first hand the influence these artist had on each other and the way Apollinaire had a part in encouraging it. I was able to explore art works collected by Paul Guillaumes, whom Apollinaire introduced into the avant-garde circles, and whose adviser he became. One of the works on display was Paul Guillaumes tiny mini replica apartment. You can see how much they admired each other through the art and writing they did and collected. Guillaume must have really liked Modigani, you can see works by him that Guillaume collected and a portrait of himself by Modigani. Its crazy to think that some awesome and iconic artworks wouldn't have been created without the influence, connections and encouragement created by
The goal of this paper is to discuss Camille Pissarro’s, The Goose Girl at Montfoucault, and Vincent van Gogh’s, The Rocks. This paper analyzes the stylistic changes between Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. I will also reflect upon the historical development of these styles in reference to these paintings. By analyzing these paintings individually, we can develop and acknowledge the differences between the styles that they belong to. This will be accompanied by comparing the paintings to other artwork in the given styles and analyzing the paintings brushwork, landscape, and depth.
In the Enseigne, art is also shown to serve a function that it has always fulfilled in every society founded on class differences. As a luxury commodity it is an index of social status. It marks the distinction between those who have the leisure and wealth to know about art and posses it, and those who do not. In Gersaint’s signboard, art is presented in a context where its social function is openly and self-consciously declared. In summary, Watteau reveals art to be a product of society, nevertheless he refashions past artistic traditions. Other than other contemporary painters however, his relationship to the past is not presented as a revolt, but rather like the appreciative, attentive commentary of a conversational partner.
‘I want to show artists from the whole world, and to leave the ghetto of contemporary Western art where we have been shut up over these last decades’ (Buchloh & Martin, 1989, p. 27). Jean-Hubert Martin’s exhibition Les Magiciens de la Terre more than challenged, it stampeded into the contemporary Western art world demanding that it expand its vision beyond the generally agreed and understood definition of art. Martin wanted the art world to encompass the global through his sole curatorial vision. In a response to the centralised view of the art world of the time, Martin curated an exhibition to redefine this view and include his discovery of the art of the peripheries which he brought back to this local centre. Arising from this, the dominant
O: Rage and revolt can describe the country of France at the time of the Revolution faced because of turmoil and struggle they faced. Different estates were formed based on what you did and your class in society. The people of society wanted more say in the government and decisions that King Louis XVI made. The public didn't approve with much of what King Louis did. His lack of ability to be a strong king and leader affected his reputation to the public eye. King Louis was tried for committing treason to the country of France. Treason is the attempt to kill a sovereign and overthrow the government. Some of the reasons were his attempt to flee to Varennes, living in Versailles which was not in Paris, and reforms he passed as a ruler. These actions performed by King Louis isn’t what a King does, but that doesn’t prove any
The nineteenth century produced a great number of art works from such artists as Pierre August Cot and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Two major themes in these works include images fabricated from the real world and mirror images of everyday situations in life. Cot produced a pair of star struck lovers sharing a moment together in a hidden dugout enclosed by trees and shrubs while Renior recreated a midsummer’s day with a family enjoying an outing downtown. Each of these painting possesses an iconography in which the artist has contrived within his mind as the main theme to his work. This image is not intended to influence the viewer’s individual observation, but to embellish the work’s particular symbolism.
Hobhouse writes, “Both were direct, a little rough with company, greedy, childish in their enthusiasms and petulant in their dislikes. . . . And both, at the time, were beginning to be convinced they were geniuses” (68). They experienced the same events and people in Paris prior to and during the Cubist movement, a common exposure that developed them in the same direction artistically (Myers ...
Futagawa, Yukio. Pierre Chareau with Bernard Bijvoet: Maison Dalsace (“Maison de Verre”) Paris, France 1928-1932. (Tokyo: A.D.A. Edita). 1988. Print.
If you could choose whether to have an honest and others-oriented ruler or an untrustworthy and selfish ruler which one would you choose? I would personally choose an honest and others-oriented ruler. The only way I would know that a ruler could possess those qualities is if he followed the divine right of kings. I know that he would be led by God, and would make the right choices to lead his people in the right path.
King Louis XIV created a legacy for himself and his family that would last for centuries to come. The King built an empire around himself, created a magnificent and unprecedented estate at Versailles, indulged himself in the most exquisite and unique ways of life (even for a king), and kept his country in relative check from imploding on itself. However, his reign was not without flaws and setbacks as he drove France into an extreme amount of debt through the many wars he had begun or by the lavish lifestyle through which he lived. As King, Louis had multiple events impact his way of conducting himself and his country in the future, some of which would lead to the debt of France and others that would leave the King with a unique mark on history.
Odilon Redon, as a child, he spent his childhood at Peyrelebade. Peyrelebade became inspiration for all his art. His inspiration from Peyrelebade was providing him with nature and a stimulus for his fantasy. He had learned from his father, to watch the rolling clouds and see the infinite representation of form. His childhood in Peyrelebade was carried on far into his career as an artist. Redon was man who saw the dream that is isolated and lurked behind every reality. He was showing his talent in many arts rapidly: in architect and violin. He developed a interest in contemporary literature, partly through Armand Clavaud who became his friend and mentor. He was the Symbolist artist who found the strange grey flat surface between science and art. When the human race obsessively sought to classify the infinite works of mother of nature, He saw their inseparability in a time.
Shortly after World War one there was a group of people who started a movement called Dadaism. The Dadism movement was founded due to the disagreements with the previous war and the displeasures of its aftermath. These Dadaist used art to ridicule the war and to show a stand against all that it stood for. In the early 1920’s dadism was no longer a relavent movement and a few years later surrealism took the reigns. It can be said that Andre Breton was one of the founders of surrealism. Andre Breton was relatively involved in dadism, but he felt the need to start his own movement based on his own beliefs and ideals. Being one of the founders of the surrealist movement Andre Breton was a substantial part of its success with his literature alone. In works such as Manifestos of surrealism and Nadja Breton gives precise details on what surrealism is or can be. There texts show why Breton was a predominant part of the Surrealist movement.
This assignment will provide an analysis of the Modernist artwork of Paul Cezanné's, Still-Life with Apples and Oranges (c.1899) within the art movement of Impressionism. The analysis will be based upon the aesthetic and ideological underpinnings of the avant-garde. This will be done with reference to the writings of Charles Harrison and Clement Greenberg. Firstly, Modernism and the avant-garde will be discussed as defined by Harrison and Greenberg as the introduction to the discussion of the chosen artwork of Cezanné, followed by the analysis of the artwork with reference to the writings and how Cezanné's artwork and artistic characteristics and personal views attribute to Still-Life with Apples and Oranges (c.1899) whilst being classified within the framework of Modernism.
René Magritte is a 20th century Belgian Artist. He was influenced by André Breton -a writer known as the founder of surrealism-for his 1924 Surrealist Manifesto, Sigmund Freud-a neurologist-for his psychoanalysis that repetition is a sign of trauma. He studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris between 1916 and 1918.1 After leaving because he thought that it was a complete waste of time, and upon meeting Victor Servranckx-a fellow artist who introduced Magritte to futurism, cubism and purism-Jean Metzinger and Fernand Leger had a large influence on his early works of cubism.
The main perception through the role of art and design in this period placed by art nouveau practitioners is intriguingly relevant to the collections of historic art found within the V&A museum. The practitioner beliefs were that all the existing arts of that current time period should collaborate together without issues of any sort; while each art form or movement had its own unique form of perception and expression while maintaining their basic traditions where all considered...
Sophie Calle, professor of film and photography at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, is a renowned contemporary French artist. Sophie Calle is also a photographer of considerable acumen. As an educationist she has taught photography since 2005 at post-graduate level. Born in Paris, France in October of 1953, Sophie Calle is daughter to the also renowned Robert Calle. In her biography posted on the university page (www.egs.edu), it is claimed that the early associations and integration into her father’s social circles exposed her to a number of artists who influenced her decision to become an artist herself. Sophie Calle became an artist back in the 70’s and has since then recorded a myriad of artworks that includes writings, poetry, pictures and paintings. This essay will try to examine the underlying theme existent in the works of Sophie Calle as a means of better understanding her person. For the purpose of this essay, mainly the photographic works of Sophie shall be discussed.