MODERN ARTISTS
ART SMART
MATCHING
RENOIR BROWN GIOURST GERARD FANTIN-LATOUR CHASSERIAU ROESEN SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE EDMONDS MORAN SIGNAC CHASE
Flowers and Grapes
French artist. 1875 Father taught him and trained with others later. Friends with Renoir. Admired for many works, like portraits and lithograph prints. He even did a portrait of Renoir. He loved music and based some imaginary scenes on the music and stories of operas. He is best known for his still lifes...particulary of flowers. He was called a "visual poet of flowers". The diagonal line of the table gives depth in painting. Light shows to accurately picture the details and textures of the subjects. Round shapes and curved lines in the grapes and flowers and basket add to the lively feeling. Triangle shape of fruit and flowers.
The Seine at Chatou
French artist. 1874 The name Impressionism was first given to this style of painting as a criticism. Art critics who were accustomed to traditional styles thought the unmixed colors and rough, broken brushstrokes looked unfinished. But the artists did exactly what they were trying to do....They caught a quick impression of a passing moment....showing only what the eye would see in a glance. He was a leader that developed this style. The white and blue stokes show the dancing sparkle of light on rippling water. Complementary colors add life and movement to the composition. The diagonal line between the boat and the rooftop draws us throught he scene and gives us a sense of perspective. He came from a poor family. He decorated porcelain as his first job. In the middle of his life he achieved financial success. By the end of his life he had gained wealth and international fame. He remains one of the most popular artists perhaps beause of the brightness and joy in his work. He felt paintings should be " pleasant, cheerful, and pretty". His own favorite painters were the greatest of the Rococo artists.
Commodore Trunnion and Jack Hatchway
American artist. 1839 Got in trouble at school for doing art instead of his lessons. He went into banking because his father (a storekeeper) could not afford to send him to training. Job and family left little time for art, but he studied and painted when he could. He had an assumed name for his early paintings. This was the first under his own name. His career in banking lasted more than 30 years, but he painted all of his life. He became a leader and member of the National Academy of Design in New York. This is a genre painting. We classify it mainly as history and legend because it is based on a book (a lot of his works were). This is from a novel "The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle". Hatchway is about to discover something in the paper that will anger his friend. For my 5th graders.....he learned that the Commodore's rival had just been made a peer in the realm.
Oedipus at Colonus
French, 1788. This is a Neoclassical style of painting which developed in the second half of the 18th century was influenced by the arts of ancient Greece and Rome. Artists often chose patriotic or historic subjects. Instead of games and recreation, they tried to show serious messages or ideas. This very large work portrays a scene from the Greek legend about the king Oedipus. Prophecies had foretold that the king would commit crimes against his father and mother. He tried to avoid his fate, but because he did not know who his real parents were, he fulfilled the prophecies unintentionally. He was blinded and exiled in punishment. Here is son asks him to return to his kindom. The king angrily rejects the son and sends him away. This picture shows smooth brushstrokes that gives it a glossy, polished surface. Order and stability are created by the row of columns. Bright light shows on the