The world boasts of producing some of the best artists from time immemorial. Some of these artists maintain some peculiar artistic features which have continued to make them more relevant. This is a sure caricature that art is able to stand the test of time indeed. A careful look at some of the greatest artists reveals that their artistic works bear some semblance especially in the themes and ideological positions. Some of the greatest artists of their times were Matisse and Leonardo Da Vinci. This paper thus aims at finding out the similarities and differences in the artistic works of both Leonardo and Metisse bearing in mind the overlap and discrepancy in time frame within which the two artists lived. Leonardo Da Vinci was born around 1452 and died in 1519. Throughout his life time, he was a painter, architect, musician, a sculptor, geologist, cartographer, mathematician, engineer, inventor, botanist, anatomist, and a prolific writer who enjoyed using words and paintings to describe his artistic works. All these features used to describe Leonardo shows that he was indeed an Italian polymath whose personality and intelligence were immeasurable. During his prime years in his career, Leonardo was regarded as a genius and a figure whose works epitomized the Renaissance humanistic ideal (Simona, 46). Just like Leonardo, Matisse, another painter, was born in1869 in France, much later after the death of Leonardo Da Vinci. He studied and got a degree in law before becoming an artist. In order to realize his ambition of being one of the greatest artists the world has ever produced, he was diligent and spent most of his time learning a lot from some of the best artists during that time. One of the artists Matisse copied much of his painti... ... middle of paper ... ...yed from generation to generation are those whose works contain appealing artistic attributes such as figures in landscapes, interior portraits and views and use of dazzling colors and embellished forms which articulate emotions. Works cited Simona, Cremante (2005). Leonardo da Vinci: Artist, Scientist, Inventor. Giunti Sherwin, Nuland (2001). Leonardo Da Vinci. Phoenix Press. Frank, Zollner (2003). Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Paintings and Drawings. Taschen. Charles, Nicholl (2005). Leonardo da Vinci, The Flights of the Mind. Penguin. Myers, Terry R. (July–August 2010). "Matisse-on-the-Move". The Brooklyn Rail. Alastair, Wright. Matisse and the Subject of Modernism Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2006. Spurling, Hilary (2000). The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Early Years, 1869–1908. University of California Press, 2001
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Impressionism is the name given to the art movement that changed art forever. Starting in France in the 1860's, Impressionism was considered a radical break from tradition.1 Through the work of artists including Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Edgar Degas impressionism was born. Impressionists painted outside and focused greatly on light and its reflection. They painted quickly on primed white canvas with short visible brushstrokes and placed separate colours side by side letting the viewer’s eyes mix them. (Techniques uncommon to art at this time) Regarding their subject they again broke with tradition and painted anything they wanted including the modernity of Paris and the everyday life of its citizens. This new found freedom regarding subject along with unconventional techniques greatly displeased the L’École des Beaux-Arts where academic artists would have worked on subjects such as history, royalty and mythology.2 In contrast to the impressionists their work had a smooth varnished finish, showing little to no evidence of the artist’s presence. Having introduced Impressionism, I aim to in this essay analyse why the city of Paris is at the heart of the impressionist movement. Firstly by looking at how Paris helped create the impressionist movement and secondly how Paris fuelled it.
Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in a small Tuscan town called Vinci that was near Florence. Most people know him for his skills as an artist and his many famous paintings. These paintings included the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, and Virgin of the Rocks. An artist was only one of the activities that da Vinci was good at. He was known as the quintessential Renaissance man. Da Vinci was also a mathematician, inventor, sculptor, musician, and writer. Leonardo is stated to be one of the most diversely talented men maybe ever to be alive. He studied at the studio of Verrocchio in Florence in his younger years. Studying with Verrocchio he was introduced to many different challenges to paint and that ended up diversifying his styles and abilities.
Leonardo da Vinci was a scientist, inventor, architect, and a mathematician as well as an artist that lived during the Italian Renaissance. Da Vinci's countless contributions to fields of art, technology, science, and math enabled him to have the label as a true Renaissance man.
Within the medium of painting, many millennia of two-dimensional representations have recorded the thoughts and history of those who are creative and those who desired history to be recorded in the image they decided fit. The boundaries that separate painting into defined movements can be vague because they represent the works of a culture such as Greece or as well-defined and distinct as some movements were dictated by churches, governments, and other bodies of influence. Impressionism is a movement composed of works from a culture where the enlightenment of the masses caused “a group of artists who shared a set of related approaches and techniques” ("Impressionism,") to emerge and coalesce into a new school of thought. This paper will examine the works of three artist who painted with the Impressionist style; Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Claude Monet. These renowned Impressionists may have had common influences and beginnings, yet these artists differentiate from one another via their unique styles of expression.
Henri Matisse, the leader of the Fauvist movement and master of aesthetic order, was born in Le Cateau-Cambresis in northern France on December 31, 1869. The son of a middle-class family, he studied and began to practice law. In 1890, however, while recovering slowly from an attack of appendicitis, his mother bought him a paint set and he became intrigued by the practice of painting. In 1892, having given up his law career, he went to Paris to study art formally. His first teachers were academically trained and relatively conservative, Matisse’s own early style was a conventional form of naturalism, and he made many copies after the old masters. He also studied more contemporary art, especially that of the impressionists, and he began to experiment, earning a reputation as a rebellious member of his studio classes.
Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance Polymath: meaning he was a geologist, botanist, inventor, painter, sculptor, and writer. His genius epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal and he seemed to be interested in everything. However, Leonardo is primarily recognized as a renowned painter. Two of his most...
Henri Matisse’s portrayal of the female nude in Bathers by a River represents his frustrations with the political climate in France after World War I while also documenting the evolution of his style over the course of a decade. Bathers by a River is described as one of the five most pivotal works of Matisse’s career because of its importance as a symbol of his fear, the strength of the French people, and the collective moment when the effects of the tragedies of WW1 were finally
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Leonardo da Vinci was a famous painter, sculptor, and inventor that lived from 1452-1519. He was born in a small Italian town of Vinci and lived on a small estate that his father owned. Leonardo kept the name of the town that he was born in for his last name. Since his mother did not marry his father, he could not inherit his father’s land, nor did he have much going for him as a wealthy businessman. When people think of Leonardo da Vinci, they mostly associate him with art and paintings, such as his famous Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Leonardo believed that art was correlated to science and nature. Da Vinci was largely self-educated and he filled endless notebooks with examinations and suppositions about pursuits from aeronautics to anatomy.
Leonardo Da Vinci is a famed artist today due to his renowned painting of the ‘Mona Lisa’. In the 14th century, people of Venice would have known him as an engineer, people of Milan would have known him for his Last Supper, but only the people of Florence would have seen his whole character. Da Vinci is known as the archetypal Renaissance man, a man of “unquenchable curiosity” and “feverishly inventive imagination”. Da Vinci created many technologies and new innovations which were so advanced for his time and age that many scholars did not believe him. He contributed to civilisation through three main areas: art, science and engineering.
During a visit to Brittany, Matisse discovered Impressionism (Essers 8). The works of Cezanne and Van Gogh influenced him. When he returned, he exhibited his first painting, Dinner Table, in 1897. This was his first painting of impressionistic style. Matisse’s art began to concentrate on landscapes, still life, and domestic interiors. Still life is a theme Henri would follow for the rest of his career.
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Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance man that was born in 1452 and lived to 1519. He was a true renaissance man is regarded as one of the greatest minds of the renaissance era, displaying skills in numerous diverse areas of study. While he is most famous for his paintings such as the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper, Leonardo is also renowned in the fields of civil engineering, chemistry, geometry, mathematics, mechanical engineering, optics, and physics, Making his biggest contributions to mathematics and engineering through his amazing inventions. Leonardo da Vinci was very far ahead of his time which is why most of his inventions were not made practical until someone reinvented later in time, when technology caught up to his ideas.
Leonardo da Vinci is one of the most well-known geniuses in human history. This man masters knowledge of all kind: painting, architecture, music, geology, philosophy, biology, math, physics, chemistry, etc. His probably most famous painting, Mona Lisa, fascinated millions of people around the world and the amazing and mysterious details in the painting attracted a number of scientists and scholars to devote their whole career in studying them. Born and lived in Italian Renaissance age, which is a period of time when arts flourished and knowledge was valued, Leonardo was surrounded by many great contemporary artists and a perfect creative environment. These favorable factors supported him to fully exercise his talents.