The Bathers Essays

  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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    Pierre-Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in 1841 to a tailor and dressmaker. He attended a Christian Brother's School where he was taught the rudiments of drawing. At the age of 13 he was apprenticed to a firm of porcelain painters, Levy Freres et Compagnie, whose workshops were near the Louvre. At the same time, he took drawing lessons from the sculptor Callouette. After serving his apprenticeship as a porcelain painter, he worked for a M. Gilbert, a manufacturer of blinds. In 1860

  • Analysis Of Matisse's Bathers By A River

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    conceived in 1909 as a scene of Arcadian leisure, four years later in Morocco, Matisse divided the canvas vertically into equal, hard-edges of green, black, white, and pale gray, suppressed the waterfall, condensed the foliage and transformed his four bathers, cutting off the head of one, slicing another’s legs at the ankles into massive, mutilated, stone-grey figures. The canvas marked the reconciliation between form and feeling, reason and intuition that Matisse had been working on ever since he returned

  • The Large Bathers Essay

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    Paul Cezanne’s The Large Bathers (the largest composition in as series), created in 1906, is an oil painting of the post-Impressionism that was unconventional in the sense that it was created not conforming to the 19th century method. Cezanne disregarded the fashionable painting trend which pressured painters. His interest in depicting the nude and exploring the relationships of people in his work was inspired by images of cherubs and mystical creatures of the Renaissance. The mystical paintings

  • The Large Bathers Analysis

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    Paul Cézanne’s The Large Bathers, (Cezanne) while in itself is a departure from the classical painting style of the past, is also a starting point for both Matisse’s Bonheur de Vivre and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles. Cézanne started with the classical subject of nude bathers, and took them out of their classical surrounding of temples or mythological surroundings and brought them to the French countryside and to the present. He did so with an artistic style that too was far from classical. The figures

  • Cezanne's Influence On The Large Bathers

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    I will discuss the inspiration drawn from Cézanne’s The Large Bathers and how both Matisse and Picasso used that influence in their own paintings. Their paintings came, not much later, in time, to when Cézanne finished his The Large Bathers painting. First, a look at The Large Bathers, which Cezanne completed in 1906, according to the video narrated by Beth Harris and Steve Zucker, Cezanne’s goal was to paint a nude in a modern environment. And while parts of the canvas were unfinished, they

  • Paul Czanne The Large Bathers

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    questions. Art is meant to inspire and bring about feelings (happiness, sadness, excitement, etc) When we look at these three paintings of very similar subjects, we can see just how different while being similar art can be. Paul Cézanne’s, The Large Bathers. is a beautiful piece of art that is both sensual and sweet. The warm color pallet adds to the idea of hominess and lightness, while the nude models add a tad bit of sexuality. This is a classic piece of art. The women are hyper sexualized with big

  • Comparison Of Paul Cézanne's 'The Large Bathers'

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    Picasso, and it was their witnessing of past artist Paul Cézanne’s “The Large Bathers” display at a retrospective exhibition one evening that sparked the birth of a personal mission in each artist’s heart to create something that would not only do their previous fellow artist justice, but also help make a name for themselves.

  • Comparing Matisse And The Large Bathers By Paul Cezanne

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    The first one is Paul Cezanne’s the Large Bathers. To me this is a painting of a bunch women bathing out in the open. The colors are more neutral and bland, but still has a claiming effect on you. According to Wikipedia, this is the last of the oil paintings by Cezanne, and they consider this one to be unfinished. After seeing the other paintings of bathers, I would agree with that statement. His other paintings have more life in them. The Bathers by Paul Cezanne The next painting is Le

  • Lone Bather by A.M. Klein and The Swimmer by Irving Layton

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    is used to send a variety of messages, either through its imagery, meaning, or by the poetic devices used. Each and every poem has something special and unique to offer to the reader, as long as the reader looks deep enough to find it. “Lone Bather'; written by A.M. Klein, and “The Swimmer'; by Irving Layton both offer such messages to the reader. At first glance, these messages seem surprising similar, but after further examination they are in fact strikingly different. The similarities

  • How Did Paul Cazanne Impact On The Large Bathers

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    Cézanne was a post-impressionist artist, who influenced many others in his life time and beyond. His commitment with form and use of colors to delimit figures kept the attention of many young authors. One of his most influential works, The Large Bathers, had impact in great names of movements like Fauvism and Cubism, for instance. More specifically, Bonheur de Vivre by Henri Matisse and Les Demoiselles d’Avignon by Pablo Picasso are two paintings that had directly impact from that Cézanne’s masterpiece

  • Similarities Between Bonheur De Vivre And Paul Matisse

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    Bonheur de vivre & Les demoiselle Avignon vs The Large Bathers This painting above is “The large bathers” by the French painter Paul Cézanne, it is an oil-on-canvas picture and it is the largest among his paintings. Many artworks by other famous painting are seen as being inspired by the large bathers of Cézanne, bellow I will be comparing two paintings by Matisse and Picasso that share some visual similarities with it. Bonheur de vivre Bonheur de vivre and also known under Joy of life

  • Matisse's Bonheur De Vivre And Les Demoiselles

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    Introduction For doing this assignment I will describe briefly Cézanne’s, The Large Bathers first and then I will describe Matisse’s Bonheur de Vivre and then Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Ávignon describing and commenting how they can see inspired by Cezanne’s painting. Body Cézanne’s, The Large Bathers is an oil canvas exhibited in 1906 and is part of a series of bather paintings of the same painter and was the last to be produced. The painting shows the woman as if they were goddess emulating a

  • Matisse's Bonheur De Vivre And Les Demoiselles?

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    the same time period. Furthermore, I will discuss how both Matisse’s Bonheur de Vivre and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon were inspired by Paul Cézanne’s The Large Bathers. First, I will discuss the piece that inspired Picasso and Matisse, The Large Bathers. This was painted by Paul Cézanne from 1898-1905 (“The large bathers, 1898-1905 by Paul Cezanne,” 2010). The painting depicts a group of nude woman in front of a lake; the triangle made by the trees attracts the onlooker to the distant figure

  • The Importance Of Bathing Cultures

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    bathing due to the effects of religions and also due to the medicinal values of bathing. Both cultures enjoy relaxing in baths and also realize the healing power of bathing; however, the two cultures are still different in many ways such as the time bathers spend bathing and the openness of bathing. I personally have experienced bathing in Japan and in no doubt it was a joyful experience. If any chance, I would love to experience a Roman bath. Living in a fast-pace society, we could hardly stop working

  • Influence and Individuality: Matisse, Picasso and their Cezanne Connection

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    “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” and Cezanne’s “The Large Bathers” which can all be found through the references provided. To begin this discussion, we should first look at the work of Cezanne which inspired the two artists later on. In The Large Bathers, Cezanne continued on from the Impressionist era of painting to help form what was more known as Expressionism, which relied heavily on the emotional expression of the art on canvas. The Large Bathers is no exception as you can see the formal elements

  • Henri Matisse Analysis

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    etchings. Matisse focused on the world around him, which included friends and family, everyday life in the studio, but it was the tools and techniques the artist used that had a significant impact on his work. Matisse began working on prints for Bathers in 1913, working with models in various seated and standing positions. The artist was working to simplify the human form by only capturing the essential elements and describing the figures with minimal lines. The drypoint technique creates a rigid

  • Henri Matisse's Bonheur De Vivre

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    Cézanne painted The Large Bathers in 1906, nearer to the end of his life. This Impressionist work shows nude figures out in the open, not in a studio. Although he is building on the classical theme of nudes, they are distorted and unfinished. It is clearly a move away from the Classical towards the Impressionism of his age. The Large Bathers can be seen as a work which laid the foundation for the abstract works which followed in the 20th Century (Harris, n.d.). Henri Matisse’s Bonheur de Vivre (Joy

  • Comparison Of Bonheur De Vivre And Les Demoiselles

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    the Ancient Greek and through the Renaissance and Baroque periods. But, it’s not until after the beginnings of modern art do we see a shift in the portrayal of the nude figure into something more abstract and figurative. Paul Cezanne’s The Large Bathers, Henri Matisse’s Bonheur de Vivre, and Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon are three early 20th century examples of how modern art changes in depicting the nude and it reveals not just a shift in formal techniques in art, but a new vision, philosophy

  • Post Impressionism: Post-Impressionism

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    Post Impressionism Essays 1. Post impressionism is a term that is used to describe a group of late-19th century and early-20th century artists whose work helped art transition into a new era. These artist defied the naturalism of the Impressionist to explore color, line, and form. This rebellion led to the development of Expressionism. Generally, the approaches were so varied that it is difficult just to focus on one artist and their technique. One of the most prominent Post-Impressionist artists

  • How woman and nature are portrayed throughout art history.

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    tradition of French painting from the Renaissance period. The result was this large-scale composition of nude bathers, which occupied much of his attention for three years. This work is unique in the history of modern painting for their representation of feminine grace, and they show Renoir’s ability to capture the soft and pearly texture of skin. Even though his figures in “The large Bathers” do not follow the impressionist style of broken brush strokes, the landscape in this painting seems looks like