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And I can only imagine of the paintings you have described that Mary Cassel had at the St. Louis World's Fair.
I met the great Amboise Vollards. He was at an exhibition of Paul Cezanne. The work I saw by Seurat was truly large and great. It wasn't like the smaller impressionist painters. But I got to see his style. The painting was at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune at 25, boulevard de la Madeleine. The Bernheim brothers had dared to use one wall to show this painting, a Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. The painting was unbelievable. It was actually made out of little dots that you could tell the artist painstakingly rendered to display the different and varying degrees of color and light. It was truly magnificent. It will take me more hours to gather into my experience, dear Mama. And I look forward to visiting it together with you at some.
At the Cafe Lapin Agile I met the young artists Picasso and Rouault. I followed them to another cafe where they introduced me to the works of two other masters, Paul Cezanne and Paul Gaugin. I was taken back by both artists. They seem to...
I noticed how Picasso was taken by the work of Cezanne. He was studying the broad strokes and the way the colors worked with splotches of shape to render perspective. Cezanne, I guess, was Post-Impressionist and it appeared that some of his earlier work was somewhat violent and always erotic. But the card players were full expressions of the lives of the people who lived with him, the peasant workers, on this estate he had. But Gauguin was something else. It seem this man had left civilization and even sanity to give some primitive and simple shapes of island people. His strokes were also broad with large flat areas of uniform color. I was struck by this huge painting of his where he tried, I believe, to give a history of the world. It was called, can you believe it - D'ou Venons Nous Que Sommes Nous Ou Allons Nous.
But then Ma, I got to see the work of the crazy man and it was truly great and heartbreaking. I saw the Potato Eaters by Vincent Van Gogh. It was the earthly colors and the hands of the peasants that drew me deeply into the soul of this artist.
Impressionism and Surrealism Impressionism Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s (Rewald, 1973, p. 6). The name of the style itself is derived from the title of a Clajude Monet work, Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the term in a review in a Parisian newspaper
Realism and Impressionism Throughout history, art is used to talk about contemporary problems and views within society. As it is, a reflection of these values and the changes that is taking place. The revolution that occurred with realism and impressionism (during the Industrial Revolution), is just one sign of how this transformed the art world. To fully understand the way this took place requires comparing four works from the artists of:
It is as if the art was improvised, much like Monet's portrait of flowers gives the impression that the artist simply happened upon a cluster of flowers one day, and was moved to paint by the beauty he saw before him. Of course, it must be argued that neither composition, although they create such an extemporaneous impression, was truly spontaneous. Both works were carefully and consciously planned by the artist
The other qualities of a superior being remained forbidden thus making the reality of their imperfect world even more difficult to bare. Borges used the invisible reality in his short stories to speculate on some themes that were on people's minds since the beginning of human civilization. He used his writing skills to create a work of fiction that made the world of existential questions possessing men's minds became real
Realist Painting Style and Realism The Realist style owes its existence to the Realist concept. "Realism is democracy in art," Courbet believed. (Nochlin, xiii) Taking that as the credo upon which the works of the artists were constructed, the style itself can be nothing if not anti-academic, anti-historical, anti-conservative. Indeed, whether brushstrokes or pen markings or etching into stone or metal form the image, the underlying attitude is one of freedom,
Realism as a Social Movement Realism as an art movement established itself around the time when there were many social changes and political movements, enlightenment and industrial revolution. The 1940s saw hard times both economically and socially and realism as a form of art and a social movement came in to defy the traditional trends of art depicting heroic figures and towing the political lines. Realism achieved a democratic political dimension