How Does Impressionism Come Into Being?

The appearance of impressionism was not accidental and it was the inevitable trend of the development of French art in the 19th century. Since the Renaissance until the mid of 19th century, the artists mainly explored the sketch relationship of modeling art and anatomy perspective and color was only considered diffuse shading changes. Despite earlier explorations of color of Delacroix, Constant Boer, they were tentative after all. David, Angel and Courbet have developed the painting development of sketch relations into the peak. In this way, the artists in the 19th century had to ponder a new way of painting art, and then they started to seek a breakthrough in color.

The production of photography in the 19th century was a serious challenge to the art of painting, pushing artists to find a new way out. The first photo generated in 1820s and by 1860s, photography has underwent a great development. Before this, painting undertook the important task to record image. With the popularization of photography, painting art had lost its former dominance. At that time, some artists even thought of no prospects for the future development of painting. This sense of crisis prompted artists to give up classical painting techniques of photos and to find new ways in painting color.

At that time, the capitalist countries were expanding to the East. Oriental art and culture began to be shown in western people's eyes. Japanese printmaking, Chinese silk and other Oriental art with their unique decoration, plane, perspective method and beautiful colors formed a fascinating new art world, which was also a promotion and enlightenment for western artists to get rid of the tradition to pursue the new. Impressionism gave birth under such historical conditions.

In the middle of the 19th century, although realism art which confronted the traditional art appeared, official school forces were still very strong. Under the control of official schools, more than 4000 paintings failed to be selected in salon exhibition in 1863, which aroused widespread social discontent. In order to stabilize the situation, Napoleon III personally dealt with this matter and then held a Salon des Refuses. In this exhibition, Manet's Luncheon on the Grass caused the dispute, becoming a painting causing a great sensation. Although attacked by some people, it was still admired by some young painters and literature writers.

Since then, a number of innovative young artists who were unwilling to be bound by traditional art often gathered in Gailbowl cafe located in Batiyuer Avenue, Paris, talked about art and literature, explored new ideas and carried out heated discussions. These people were led by four students of classical painter Gleyre's studio-Monet, Renoir, Sisley, and Bachy and then made friends with Pissarro, Cezanne and the female painter Morisot. Finally, Manet and Degas joined them. In addition, literature write Zora was also included. Because Manet was much older among those people and had certain artistic achievements, so he was respected as the spiritual leader by these painters.

In addition to the exploration of art, these artists often went to outdoors for painting to pursue new expression techniques of describing color changes. They chose Courbet's realistic portrayal road and depicted the natural scenery and the reality of life that they saw. These artists were also influenced by the Barbizon and closely contacted with them. They also acquired their courage to get out of the studio and directly face the nature, and got lots of advice different from academic schools. Young Impressionists were also inspired and encouraged by Constant Boer and Turner's works. Their vigorous scene atmosphere and rich colors derived from the British painters, especially Boudin and JongKind's direct influence on impressionism. L.E.Boudin (1824-1898) was Monet's enlightener and insisted on outdoor sketching, whose works were full of vibrating light and atmosphere. Especially his depiction of the colors of sky was more vivid. J.B.JongKind (1819-1891) was a painter from Holland, who was commonly using watercolors for outdoors paintings and then processed them into oil paintings. His paintings kept the vitality of sketches with good color feeling. He painted with Boudin and Monet. It can be said that Boudin and JongKind are direct enlightener of impressionist.

After the Franco-Prussian War in 1870s, Impressionist painters returned to meet in Gailbowl cafe located in Batiyuer Avenue. So they might be called "Batiyuer Group". In fact, they were just the young artists with close relationship who painted together and discussed art. They had no unified thought, no official organization and programs. 10-year exploration from 60s to 70s finally formed a new mature style. In 1874, this group of artists jointly held the first joint exhibition which was called "Nameless Painters, Sculptors and Artists Association Exhibition" consisting of 29 painters and more than 160 works, arousing great repercussions in society.

A seascape painting Sunrise Impression of Monet was satirized by the reporter of Louis Lelovan of Noisy who later entitled it Impressionist Exhibition in his article. He took advantage of classical painters to slam these works. He said Sunrise Impression vaguely and miserably being presented in front of people to probe the painter's ignorance and of beauty and the truth. And the wallpapers were more complete and these beautiful colors and splashed mud became the fashionable things. After visiting the exhibition, when talking about his feelings, he said these paintings were like the pigments in pistol hit on the canvas and signed a name to be completed. Some people ridiculously said these paintings were scraped off by the palette of colors.

This exhibition was open before the official salon exhibition, attracting many visitors. The new style of these newly displayed works made people feel fresh, but was difficult to be accepted. Sarcasm was far more than praise. After the exhibition, the irony "impressionism" had been accepted by this group of painters, and had also been followed by later people. In this way, the new school universally acknowledged -impressionism was born.

From 1874 to 1886, the Impressionists held a total of 8 exhibitions where exhibitors were not completely confined to the school members and their own members were not wholly included. Boudin had only participated in the first exhibition and American female painter Cassatt involved in this exhibition for the third time. While Manet had been expected to get official recognition and was busy attending the official salon and never participated in Impressionist exhibition. Only Pissarro took part in every exhibition.

After the last joint exhibition in 1886, impressionism did not hold group exhibition because of the differences in art, less and less common opinions and more prominent personal characteristics. Impressionism movement drew to a close. Since then, impressionism was replaced by new impressionism and post-impressionism.

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What A Boy With Pipe tells us?

On November 20, 2004, a half year after the selling of A Boy With Pipe, the death of a German businessman Steve Georg made people really know the owner of this painting and a half-century beautiful love story behind the painting. Steve Georg was the mysterious buyer bidding billion dollars. He was not mad, but crazy for love.

The father of Georg and father of Betty Whitney were close friends. Steve was the German Jews, but Betty was an American. When they were young, they both lived in Sigafude Street of Berlin and grew up together. In 1905, Picasso completed his work A Boy With Pipe. Being changed for many times, this painting was collected by the father of Steve Georg. Steve Georg took after the little Louis in the painting. Betty liked this painting very much. These two children gradually liked a game. Whenever Betty wanted something, she would write a note behind the painting A Boy With pipe, Steve saw it and would always try to meet her expectations. Once, in order to satisfy Betty's wish of going to Vienna to enjoy the concert, 13-year-old Steve would sneakingly take the train for a dozen hours to Vienna with Betty. When they got off the train, Steve was sent back to Berlin and severely punished by his father.

In 1935, with the outbreak of the war, countless families became destitute and homeless and this couple was also broke up. Betty and her family peacefully returned to America, but Steve's family struggled in exile. After the war, Betty immediately returned from the United States to Germany aiming to look for her sweetheart. But after several twists and turns finally she got the news, the Steve's family, with the exception of a few people fled to Africa, other people had died in the war. Betty was heartbroken, soon she left Germany. In 1949, Betty married to one of the American ambassador to Britain. In the second year she followed her husband to London. At Sotheby's auction, Betty surprisingly thrilled to see A Boy With Pipe which was captured from Germany. Because it was able to be figured out who was the original owner, thus it was taken on auction. And its auctioned money was handed over to the World Jewish Foundation. The starting price of A Boy With Pipe was $10,000 dollars, and Betty finally got this painting which she was familiar in childhood with $28,000 dollars. When her trembling fingers gently stroking the painting, her eyes blurred with tears as the happy childhood memory surfaced again and seemed to be so real.

After years of chaos of war, A Boy With Pipe was fortunately intact. And Georg also like this painting, in Betty's heart, was always handsome before breaking up. Georg was as very lucky as this painting. He not only escaped from the war, but also met Betty again after 28-year parting. After so many sufferings, to see this painting together was what Steve and Betty had been longing for. They had never expected this day could be coming. After the surprise, all kinds of feelings welled up in their hearts. Betty intended to return this painting which originally belonged to him to Steve, but Steve did not accept and he hoped it would be continually saved by her. At that time, he was still single and became the best friend of Betty and her husband. 50 years later, he finally got married and had children. In 2001, Betty died. Before her death, she said again to return this painting to Steve, but Steve still did not accept. Then Betty left last words that if Steve still refused to accept this painting, then her children would auction this painting. The auctioned money could be divided into 3 portions, her children, World Childhood Foundation and charity organization named by Steve Georg. At the end of 2003, a year and a half later of Betty's death, according to her will, A Boy With Pipe was auctioned and Steve mysteriously got it. This painting accompanied him until he died. It was said that Steve had been seeing the boy in the painting before dying and he surely saw himself and Betty during their childhood.

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Appreciation to The School of Athens

This building is obviously based on St. Peter Church built by Bramante. On the alcove of both sides, the goddess of intelligence Athena (on the right) and goddess of music Apollo (on the left) are standing respectively. Central layers of arches are directly directing the distant horizon. This is one of the most sacred environment where scholars are symmetrically, naturally and rhythmically configured on both sides. The upper level characters are in a row and the center is the two great scholars -Plato and Aristotle who seems to make fierce debate whiling walking to the audience. Aristotle stretches out his right hand with his palm down as if to say the real world is his research topic; Plato upwards the fingers of his right hand to show that all are from the divine inspiration. These two opposite gestures show their principle differences in their ideology. The rest of the people, some just watch, some are listening to two old men's talk, being naturally formed several groups. Now the upper step characters: upper left of Plato, a bearded old man is immersed in thought, Socrates just turns to others on ethics argument, and from left to right the fifth is a young soldier, named Alcibiades. Behind him, a person is greeting two incoming young people.

On the upper right side besides Aristotle, two young men are leaning on the niches of the wall, one is writing and another is thinking. Another black man is standing alone. The movement of these 3 people is opposite to the left group. Under the steps, on the left the mathematician Pythagoras who is focused on writing is the center. And a youth holds a board besides him, writing "harmonious number proportion". Behind him, an old man is recording the number of arguments of Pythagorean. And the behind scholar who is necking out and wearing white towel is Aweiluoyi Muslim scholar. In the near distance, a man wearing the crown with his chest on the plinth is the grammar master Epicurus. The scholar standing in front of Pythagoras and pointing out the sentences in the book is the rhetorician St. Nuke Lutes. In the middle of them, there is also a blond youth wearing a white cloak with handsome figure and solemn expression and staring at the audience, who is thought to be Francesco Diller Loafer and grand duke of Verbena. In the right side of the lower steps, the central figure is geometry Euclid who is bending over his body and holding the compass to calculate on the blackboard (that is Archimedes), who is surrounded by four of his students.

The four men seem to have different understanding of their teacher's explanation. Beside, the man wearing ancient yellow robe, and a crow and holding astronomical instrument is an Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy. On the opposite of Ptolemy, is the fellow of painter Raphael and architect Bramante (the old man with a beard). And the man on the edge wearing white hat is the painter Sodoma. The youth with half-naked head and dark circular bonnet is the artist Raphael himself. Putting the painter himself into the historical theme is what the painter likes for performance, but Raphael leaves his space too narrow. On the steps of the center, a lonely cynic philosopher Diogenes is lying.

In addition to the natural needs, this scholar thinks any other things including the social and cultural life are of little importance. So he only wears tattered clothing, and lives in a wooden box. This character plays a complementary role in the composition. It associates with two characters walking towards the steps and echoes with the scholar Heraclitus who is leaning before the stone table and thinking in the lower left corner. The image of Heraclitus is very lonely. Although Raphael has some conflicts with Michelangelo in personality, he still respects Michelangelo's paintings and takes them as the model sample. Plato's Avatar takes the head portrait of da Vinci as the model. The color processing is also very coordinated. The building background is full of yellow marble structure, intertwined with red, white, yellow and purple in characters' clothes. The level of perspective is very high, which not only enhances the profound sense of the space, but also makes the pictures of the ground and geometric structures of dome enough to be calculated by mathematics.

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Brief Analysis of Painting Techniques of Pissarro and Cezanne

Pissarro was one of the earliest focusing on outdoor light sketches, and was the only one who participated in all eight impressionist exhibitions. Among all the main painters of impressionism, Pissarro was the most senior, who was modest and honest. In his whole life, he did not waste and always embellished portrayed his peaceful and pastoral life. He has created more than 2000 works and enjoyed high prestige in his contemporaries. Pissarro was influenced by Coelho's landscapes paintings, and later his works were often named student of Pissarro Coelho.

Pissarro once found Cezanne's talent for painting, and kept close to Cezanne. He was fascinated by the stippling methods of new impressionism. Later he gradually did not satisfy the techniques which were confined to natural or mechanical color separation, and finally combined natural, traditional and his personal feelings to form a plain and simple style of painting. This art style seemed friendlier compared to the exaggerated skills of other painters.

Although Pissarro's oil painting techniques looked very simple, they had very accurate color layers and color control, which was resulting from his in-depth observation. When painting, his strokes were larger which could fast cover the whole painting to spread out a general tone. Then he used a small pen which was usually sable hair brush to patiently and carefully draw the thick and fine brushwork. Some of his works in his mature period were often repeatedly painted for several times. And these multiple overlapping strokes and colors staggered up and down to make very rich colors and also naturally left a thick paint texture. Although Pissarro's works were mainly describing the rural scenery, his figure paintings were also wonderful. This female portrait was his typical work during his stippling period, with colorful, gorgeous, deep, fine and uniform light tone. His stippling method was careful, but not mechanical, as the shape, direction, length and size changes as the tendency of rhythm.

Although Cezanne's oil paintings belonged to impressionism, his color concepts were quite different from those of impressionism. Therefore some painters after impressionism led by Cezanne were called post-impressionism which became watershed division of traditional paintings and modern paintings. In his whole life, Cezanne all worked diligently and conscientiously to cultivate on the canvas, as a loyal farmer plowed in the field. Cezanne tried to explore the logic relationship of color and space and set up permanent form and color order, but also because of this, Cezanne has formed his unique style in the oil painting techniques and materials by the way.

Cezanne loved to use light gray background when painting landscapes. While the characters such as this one Boy in the Red Vest were the cream color, mainly in the thin coating techniques, these backgrounds play an important role in the color harmony. Initially, Cezanne used graphite pencil and adopted dark blue to outline and then used the wide bristle brush for coloring. Cezanne often started from the local place and carried out continuous convergence according to the shape and color, which was usually firm, solid and powerful. The rhythm of color conversion was very natural, creating a physical space and color perspective in the same shape with chromatography from warm to cold colors, like in the shoulder and right hand of lower right. In the convergence of high optical parts and many colors, Cezanne naturally or half unconsciously revealed the canvas ground colors, and black, white, red, green, yellow and blue coordinated with each other, to some extent. After repeated modifications, the powerful contour line not only strengthened the body shaping, but also made the geometric structure of the painting stable and full of tension. Cezanne had to pay attention to actual strength of pen, transparent and opaque color, thick and thin coating of various contrast relations, and took the use of these comparisons to strengthen the body undulation and the beauty of image texture.

Introduction to The Disputation Of The Holy Sacrament

The bottom margin is 769.5 cm, which belongs to the theme of Roman Vatican first group Theology. Raphael took advantage of Christian's academic research for blessed sacrament to form a magnificent scene of multiple characters.

The so-called The Disputation Of The Holy Sacrament is the "Christian sacrament". But the ceremony of Catholic and Orthodox are not the same. Christians believe sacrament is concluded by Jesus Christ himself with certain forms of religious rituals. There are seven sacraments: baptism, confirmation, Eucharist, penance, anointing of the sick, refreshment and mating. Here what the artist has depicted is Trinity Christian scares extraordinary and priests about Scripture details in the grand sacrament. Here is communion (i.e. Holy Communion wafers) symbol, being put in the middle of the picture composition on the altar. Drawing on the unfolding of events is divided into two levels, namely, two different scenes -earth and heaven.

In the sky, a symbol of the father's image is the highest in the arched frame with gods and the archangel Gabriel on both sides; Jesus places in the aura casting a thousand beams, showing in the nude image. On both sides of Jesus, there are Madonna and Baptist John. Under the clouds of Jesus, there is a pigeon, which is a symbol of the Holy Spirit to constitute the Trinity (i.e. the father, son, and Holy Spirit). All the prophets and the apostles said in the Bible sit on both sides. The momentum is very solemn with rolling clouds to make form an immeasurably vast difference. Under the long floating clouds, there is the world famous character. Here are the priests, bishops, priests, the elderly and young people.

Each image in painting is portrayed very lively. Visitors can find historical characters including Dante, Savanna Roller, devout monk painter Ann Jerico. Raphael uses extreme modeling techniques and reasonably makes a strong sense of rhythm arrangement of these real characters to give a person with memorable history party impression. The ordinary people on the ground are more vivid than the saints in the sky. Some appear calm, some have a strong body, and some behave liberal and dignified like scholars.

The Fifer

The Fifer depicts a young piper in guard band team. In exploration of the unity of shape and color, the painter paid attention to the portrait of the character's personality. The painter pursued a stable and bright scene in color and then suddenly turned to the dark where the characters were depicted in light gray and flat background and the body was performed in general color block. In this painting, no shadow, no eye level, no outline, only with the minimum level to paint and negate the profound feeling of three dimensions. Daumier said Manet's painting as flat as cards. Naturalist writer Zola once praised in front of this painting, "I believe no one could like Manet use simpler means to achieve this stronger effect." And now this painting did not give people a great shock. However, in the era of Manet, the advantage of this painting was the rebel, inconsistent with the feudal ethical code. First, this painting had no content; second, it had no deep meaning, only a little boy with nothing to show and represent. Moreover, Manet painted this work very quickly and totally changed his previous techniques. At that time, all the salon judges were unwilling to accept this work, who would have guessed that after more than 100 years, this painting is worth RMB 800000000 Yuan.

In 1860s, Manet who had just got rid of his first teacher Couture's authority was also misunderstood by contemporaries. He experienced several failures in the salon. His figure paintings made in the studio gave people a strange impression and aroused many critics. For instance, The Fifer was refused by the official salon committee in 1866.

This painting represented a royal guard young light cavalry playing the piccolo which was a high-pitched small wooden flute and used to guide the soldiers into battle. The name of the flute became the title of the painting. The musician played by a child in the studio occupied a central position in this painting. He was clearly shown on the gray background with subtle color changes. Without an exact space, the painting bottom made people feel air flowing around him. The painter often used this neutral impalpable background in his portraits, which was edified by the Spanish painters in the golden age, especially Velazquez and Murillo. Not long ago, Manet travelled to Madrid and highly praised them. Because Manet wanted to let this painting appear to be isolated and avoid the impression of creation in parades or in military training site, Manet did not add any anecdote. The child, clothing and piccolo constituted the only theme. The painting was completed in the cold light of the studio, which could be confirmed from the short shade on the ground. Manet had joined the army as a sailor. He looked at this child sailor whose clothes were added for the painting purpose.

This outfit felt proud. His whole attention was centered on the perfect uniform decorated with red, black, white and gold and the golden metal sleeve. The music tube tied in white glistened in the men's tunic dark woolen clothes and trousers, short coat with brass buttons. The cloth tape tightening the child formed a light, lining with white shoes. Only the boy's face and hands were full of vigor, which formed a sharp contrast with the little stiff silhouette without any details. Manet's contemporaries accused the lack of thickness and too simple processing, like the innocent paintings printed in Ebinaer City. There was no entourage and no contact between the background and the characters. These also made the characters not real. The characters were treated with big colors, which was quite similar to the head portraits on cards and Japanese engravings. Manet's The Fifer was well received, which was a challenge to the disregard of the traditional concept in the theme of impressionist paintings.

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Appreciation to Impression Sunrise

This painting was made in 1873 by Monet in Havre harbor. In the same time, he also painted Sunset. When they were sent to the first impressionist exhibition, two paintings had no titles. A journalist satirized Monet's paintings as the negation of beauty and truth only giving people a kind of impression. Monet then named this painting Impression Sunrise. As a seascape sketch, the whole painting is shrouded in thin gray tone with very optional and messy brushes, showing a picture full of fogs. At sunrise, the sea is full of fogs and the color of sky and the sun is reflected in the water. The scenery is indistinct and vague, giving people a kind of instant feeling.

Sunrise Impression is a depiction of harbor scene at sunrise shrouded with fogs. In the color tone consisting of pale purple, red, blue gray and orange, a vibrant red sun is rising with a wisp of orange yellow light wave in dragged water. The seawater, sky and scenery are penetrated and blended into one harmonious whole in a relaxed tone of scenery. Three boats offshore are gradually blurred in the mist and distant buildings, port, crane, ship masts, etc are loomed in the morning. All of these are painted by the painter seen from a window. Such bold and messy strokes are used to show the fog scene. This is rebellious in art for orthodox Sharon academy. This painting is completely driven by an instant visual and vivid painting mood without the cautious and clear outline and rigid tones esteemed by official academic schools. The rebellious painting has caused the official opposition.

When in 1874 Monet and a group of young artists held the exhibition, the painting Sunrise Impression was slandered and ridiculed. Some critics sneered, "Blank wallpaper is more complete than the sea view!" More people satirized these young artists led by Monet impressionism according to the title of this painting. Then impressionism became the name of this group. This painting was robbed in 1985. According to the French stolen art detective, it was seized in a villa in Corsica on Dec.6, 1990.

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Monet's Olympia

Olympia was made by the French impressionist painter Edouard Manet. In this painting, the painter used an angle which could be applied to show the whole body to perform the naked body. He neither fully performed the stereo feeling, nor asked for half-stereo feeling, but took a unique compression stereo feeling. Then the body was with more volume at first glance. Such idea was consistent with other bright parts in this painting-the pillow, bed sheet, colorful scarf and structure of black female slaves. These performances showed an alternating light and darkness or jumping missing in the nude images, which made the whole with a special lightness and brilliance. But their form was still like the bright relief set off in the dark background. Here, the blue lines were highlighted in white to distinguish the yellow, green and rose in the dark background. Because of no intermediate tone from the bright to the dark, so we may consider this compression relief as a color mosaic whose black and white contrast as the image itself strongly affected on the viewer's imagination.

In short, we saw the unity of the style in this painting and all the depicted object was subject to the uniform color effect. Nude was attributed to the deep color structure-although it appeared in the form of compression relief, it had been transformed into a stereo. This led to a poetic feeling which could be described by words, because this poetry was coming from the integrity, infection and vitality of the art image itself appearing in front of the viewers. This was Manet who tried to achieve the unity of shape and color he imaged instead of beauty or truth in describing the things what he saw. To achieve this goal, he determinedly abandoned the description methods favored in the upper class. Then he drew Victor Lena (the naked woman in Olympia) into a mixture of pet and doll. Beauty, truth, life-all had been swallowed by art. He showed his freedom of observation methods in Olympia. In this way, he almost imperceptibly turned his techniques into the ideal and created a road for his own imagination. In this painting, Monet put forward the principles of free observation which was later accepted and regarded as the banner by the whole contemporary art.

Olympia was about completed in 1863 and displayed in Salon (the official exhibition) in May 1865 for the first time. But it was immediately criticized by the media and even blocked. And Manet was also forced to flee Spain, though a lot of people had painted nude before. Edouard Manet died on April 30, 1883. A large number of people attended his funeral. Edouard Degas said, "Manet is much greater than we imagine." In 1890, Olympia was purchased by donation and donated to the state. And this masterpiece was displayed at the Le Louvre museum.

Manet firstly studied from academism painter Couture and then imitated and researched Titian, Velasquez, Goya, Hals's works. Influenced by Japanese paintings, he once participated in Paris Commune Revolution and created Barricade and other stone engravings. He innovated painting skills based on traditional European paintings and excelled at using the loud and clear colors, concise and accurate strokes, reducing intermediate tones, and strengthening the contrast of light and shade, which caused the discrimination of academism. Manet's achievements were mainly in the external light and portraits. After 1863, he got closer to impressionist painters like Monet and had somewhat changed his painting style. But he still drew in his own way.

In 1862, a great event occurred in Paris, France: when academism held the salon exhibition, they excluded nearly 4000 works from more than 300 painters, which had caused widespread discontent and condemned among people. Napoleon III decided to hold another exhibition called "Salon des Refuses" for these paintings being failed for election in order to quell the uproar. On May 15th of this year, "Salon des Refuses" opened. The visitors were much more than those coming for the official exhibition. The most attractive was the young painter Manet's The Luncheon on the Grass. In front of this painting, there were a great many audiences.

Soon, Manet's another pair of work Olympia caused the turmoil in the art world. The academism rebuked his paintings vulgar, and even the French progress painter leader Courbet at that time also thought his painting lacked authenticity. But his paintings had been warmly embraced by new characters, because his paintings were against school rules, and also out of the realism principles. His painting was not to achieve beauty and truth, but achieve unity in the shape and color, which was regarded by the western modern art as a free observation method and the banner of the principles. Although Manet never willingly admitted that he was the Impressionist and had never attended the Impressionist exhibition, he invisibly became the founder and leader of the impressionists. He had devoted his life to the painting techniques and reform and the impact of classical idealism and school and opened a prelude to the history of painting color revolution.

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Several Original Art Museums And Galleries In Canada

Should you be stopping by Canada, particularly if it is your very first time, one of the few must-go areas in this region are their fine art galleries. Art houses ordinarily are not always boring. In Canada, there are a few out of the ordinary galleries and museums for each unique inclination. Each one exposes the country's splendid cultural customs put on show in an odd style. The galleries and exhibits exhibited in these art museums are thought about to always be original. Just about every artworks will leave you overwhelmed.

If you actually feel like visiting this form of tourist attraction, the following are the must-check galleries and museums to check out.

Potato Museum

This art gallery presents a large number of potato artifacts, the world's biggest actually. You'll find it situated in Prince Edward Island within the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Included in Canada's well-developed current economic climate, drawings of its role within the country's plethora are brought to you including the collections of equipment intended for seeding and farming potatoes. The organizer of the museum, including artist in Toronto, is invariably very proud in introducing the exhibit of potato historical past, community gallery, and therefore the known Potato Hall of Fame and numerous others. Moreover, a few of the series out of this potato art gallery were also shown within the art gallery in vancouver, art gallery in Ottawa together with art gallery in toronto.

Chocolate Gallery

Who loves to have a look at a place stuffed with chocolates? This place is incredibly to you personally if you're a chocolate fan. This chocolate gallery within St. Stephen New Brunswick was created by a non profit firm in June 1999. It shows the lines of chocolate cartons from various years, atypical chocolate machineries, and chocolate exhibits. Artist in Vancouver is definitely an enthusiast with this particular art gallery. A particular aspect of the place shouldn't be obviously the art gallery in vancouver however the life account of the renowned choco-candy maker bros James and Gilbert Ganong who made their major influence since 1800 up to existing time.

Textile Art Gallery

This textile museum is just one of its kind in Canada. It's solely devoted to existing textile and cloth. Artist in Montreal shows its collection for approximately 12,000 or maybe more. The gallery shows old-fashioned garments, beadworks, rugs and a few current art works of foreign and Canadian painters like artist in Toronto. Over-all, the museum exhibits value of textile market sector for everyday lifestyle which are also shown in art gallery in Ottawa and art gallery in toronto. One of the loved free galleries is FibreSpace. Through this art gallery, people may feel the creative thinking involve in the art of creating textile style and design.

Ripley's Believe it or Not Museum

And lastly, the world-famous Ripley's Believe it or Not Museum. Artist in Vancouver and artist in Montreal each described that the location is way better referred to as "strange" gallery. It highlights the varied strange variety of arts. It displays the mind blowing illusions intended for everyone. The Wax Zone and then the Ripley's Wacky Exploration Room are simply two of the main sights here. Believe it or not, this area is one of the must see gallery globally.

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Appreciation to La Belle Jardiniere

La Belle Jardiniere was made by Italian famous painter Raphael. The painting depicts the leisure life of Madonna, Jesus and St. John. It is through the image of the beautiful governess to express the secular spirit of love.

In the garden, Madonna is sitting to take care of these two children who are Jesus and St. John. Jesus stands beside her mother and looks at her with a smile, with his feet on her feet and hands on her hands. St. John with one knee kneeling down looks at him fondly. This is a kind of secluded scene. In that era, with the efforts of the previous generation, people have become accustomed to seeing his kind and human breath in Jesus's description. And Raphael uses a kind of style and form beauty to manifest the charming and elegant Christian poetry in the idyllic simplicity of the atmosphere.

The painting gives a person the most lasting impression, which is a heaven of peace and quiet fairyland. All the subtleties have this impression, atmosphere, scenery, calm face and attitude. In the Umbrian quiet fields, there is not a stormy weather, as these figures' soul never set off a frenzy of enthusiasm. This is circling around Olympia in Homa's poetry, and the quietness in heavy in Dante's Divine Comedy. This quietness immediately attracts our imagination to another state and to be far away from the real world. Here, its excellence and superiority cannot be matched by all other sketches.

The little Jesus smiles at Madonna, Madonna smiles at the little Jesus. But there is no strong performance. This smile is just slightly marked. The child's feet are put in the mother's feet to show kindness and confidence. But this love is just can be identified in a little action. This painting style is delicate with perfect techniques to show the kind, gentle, pure and lovely female governess, giving a person a kind of warm feeling. This painting also vividly conveys the desire for life of the painter.

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Beautiful Love Between Male And Woman - The Kiss & Impression, Sunrise

As a world famous oil painting, The Kiss is representative of symbolism art. This oil painting was created after the Vienna Secession of 1900 included Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow Four who were to affect the direction of art and craft in Europe. However, its painter, Gustav Klimt went out of this movement in 1905, he couldn't halt the influence from Mackintosh's wife, whose linear manner focused on the use of semiprecious gems. So he made all the characteristics influenced by this movement reveal in the oil painting named The Kiss. As an art master of symbolism, Klimt had lots of goes on the subject of fulfillment before, most outstanding in the last panel of the Beethoven Frieze of 1902, which relates to some words from Schiller's Ode to Joy, "the kiss to the whole world". Then oil painting The Kiss was born.

Gustav Klimt had an unchained artistic manner on his art creations, and The Kiss was not an exception. He painted a mysterious background which seemed to be in chaos and put the deeply embrace in a particular space like a warm womb. Besides, the two images in the painting were decorated with circular biomorphic elements that were echoed in the woman's dress, where there are full of blossoming flowers. Packed into gorgeous and brilliant yellow, the male put his arms around the female and gives her a soulful kiss.

The Kiss is considered as a painting that represents love between bisexual; it also stands for the sublime spirit symbol of its painter. As if The Kiss is so popular among art lovers, they usually buy the production of this oil painting from artisoo, which is a bravo art website.

Impression, Sunrise

Impression, Sunrise maybe the most representative oil painting of impressionism art; its painter Monet is well-deserved art master in the Impressionism movement. As a matter of fact, the artistic movement Impressionism has its name due to Monet's Impression, Sunrise. Shown in an independent exhibition including Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas for the first time, Impression, Sunrise fell into an argument by the artists and art critics who were present. The opposite ones kept that it was just a sketchlike painting in a negative text; however the supporters thought it could stand for a kind of brand new art style for it broke lots of traditional painting manners. Although this painting indeed has a sketchlike character, Claude Monet's broken and loose brushwork makes the impressionist want to seize the fleeting moment air.

Painted in a harbor of France, Impression, Sunrise has a companion piece named Impression, Sunset; despite of the skyscraping fame of Impression, Sunrise, Impression, Sunset is hardly known. But the two paintings show that Monet is good at paint continual nature; so he does, and he always paints at the same place in different time. Impression, Sunrise is done at dawn, when the modern city is awakening; so Monet endows a kind of obscure beauty to his artwork.

Viewers can see the thin morning mist, the rising sun and the tranquil sea in the oil painting. All the things look in a quiet intensity. If you are a lover of Impression, Sunrise, you can click into artisoo website where you will find the best reproduction of world famous oil paintings.

The Girl with a Pearl Earring

The Girl with a Pearl Earring is considered as one of Johannes Vermeer's masterpiece and as a major painting of the 17th century. Vermeer was not a prolific painter. Most of his works are devoted to genre subjects, which are scenes from everyday life and Dutch's indoor activities.

This painting displays a young wide-eyed girl with an exotic turban. It seems that she is going to tell something because she slightly opens her mouth. She is looking over her shoulder, as if viewers have interrupted her.

Due to Vermeer's excellent skill in using light reflection, the young girl looks alive and she is drawing viewers into this painting, interrogating us with her eyes, outlining the immediacy of her presence. The dark background reinforces the immediacy and the presence, which make this painting timeless, immune to time or space. The background also highlights her face, as if there is nowhere and nothing else to look at. The young girl is a timeless beauty because of the ovals of her face, her youth, the softness and delicacy of her skin and the innocent eyes.

When it comes to the use of light, the work on light in this painting is remarkable. We can easily find the subtle balance of light and shadow. For example, the turban is enlivened by small highlights, primarily on the yellow part crossing over her head and at the bottom of the turban, behind her shoulders. Her face is another example. Her eyes are watery. There are two white dots painted on them, echoing the two small white dots painted on each side of her mouth, stressing the softness and delicacy of her skin. The collar and the pearl form a perfect balance. The collar is white in the middle of the painting, breaking the darkness of the background. It also reflects its light onto the pearl which reflects onto the girl's jaw in turn.

The pearl earring in this painting is very conspicuous. It symbolizes innocence. There is a lot more to say about this painting. Nobody knows who she is and speculations have abounded, which makes this painting mysterious and fantastic.

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Appreciation to The Disputation Of The Holy Sacrament

Each image in painting is portrayed very lively. Visitors can find historical characters including Dante, Savanna Roller, devout monk painter Ann Jerico. Raphael uses extreme modeling techniques and reasonably makes a strong sense of rhythm arrangement of these real characters to give a person with memorable history party impression. The ordinary people on the ground are more vivid than the saints in the sky. Some appear calm, some have a strong body, and some behave liberal and dignified like scholars.

This color is very full, deep, and has the very strong expressive force. Signature hall is a smaller room within Vatican only with 9 longitudinal meters long and about 6 horizontal meters. The contour is semicircular arches. Looking from a distance, it is like a semicircular arc window, so the wall murals can be only described along the original modeling. Raphael uses the upper semicircle arch to make the perfect processing. He has painted arched architectural details so that the screen and the wall itself become so natural, which is Raphael's inventive mind.

Another characteristic is, all four paintings are related to the philosophy of religion in addition to "Poetics". But "Poetics" is exactly adjacent to "Theology". The peaceful coexistence phenomenon of Christian and pagan (Greek mythology was regarded as heretical) shows the church's tolerant attitude for pagan culture at that time. Here, we can also see Adam and Eve as well as the Apollo myth. They seek common ground while reserving differences with Jesus who is the son of God. I'm afraid it's neither ironic, nor a joke. It is a kind of thought evolution in the age of Raphael. At that time, people comply in appearance but oppose some religious sacred rules in heart attitude. History is always so. When Christianity was crack down by the Roman army, they got the final reconciliation. Now in the Pope's office official hall, Christianity also tends to reconcile with ancient Rome culture. Anyway, Raphael here naturally or half unconsciously makes into a way to defeat the asceticism society-entry thought.

At the beginning of 16th century, the chief architect responsible for Papal Basilica of Saint Peter and the palace of the Vatican is Raphael's uncle Bramante. In order to let Rafael come to Rome to show his skills, architect persuaded Pope Julius II to ask this only 25-year-old painter to come to Rome to complete a series of murals in the office. According to Pope's original intention, murals in this office had a general theme to praise Catholic leaders. This meant using the magnificent murals to promote Roman power authority. All the contents of murals must involve Roman curia history and include portraits of Julius II and his successors Leo X. According to this requirement, after Raphael came to Rome, he seriously thought the murals on the walls. Now the composition content of these four large murals was broader than the original versions. Or to say, Raphael's composition was basically in contradiction with the intention of the pope. The artist here with the help of different subjects plot, tried to show the highest human wisdom and culture. Although inconsistent with the church's mission, it was also difficult to oppose. The painter made great paintings of "Theology", "Philosophy", "Poetics", and "Law" with lots of praises, which was in line with the humanism ideological content.

White Peonies

Among the impressionists, Manet was regarded as the greatest still life painter, especially about flowers. There were two main periods when he painted flowers, namely the medium-term of 1860s and his last time. Because of his serious illness, he was unable to draw large pictures. And then he turned to paint still life, which was easy for him to find prototype. His interest in painting flowers produced during learning at the museum, but he went to the museum aiming to explore the ancient painters' secrets.

During his travel to wife's hometown-Holland, he studied very delicate works representing flowers, fruits and precious tableware made by Flemish painters. These things were put in a white tablecloth or carpet, reminding people of the feast and dishes related to the western churches. As defined by the tradition, still life was never reduced to simply imitate the real things, and always implied the philosophy or religion. A lot of Holland paintings appeared fully mature flowers and fruits which collapsed under the accumulated materials and pigments and stood side b side with other withered flowers or fruits swollen by worms. The transient beauty can be only kept long through the artist's brush to remind people of the death situation.

In 1864, Manet had abundant reference materials and worked a series of peony paintings. Peony was his beloved flower, but difficult to draw, because it died out early, as petals quickly fell as rain. The painter drew the first painting where he put flowers in different mature stages in a vase to perform the life cycle of peony from flower bud to petals. He also did a small painting which only two peonies placed beside the pruning shear in the same theme, which allowed people to feel the cut flowers were sure for death. The dark background chosen by the painter made the delicacy of white outline hazy and pink petals foil.

The painting was made with a brush dipped in paint with more concentrated pigment and texture. The green leaves around the flowers enriched the auxiliary color points, fixing the theme of flowers on the upper left corner of the painting. These flowers in plenty of strokes were what the painter devoted to the writer and art critic Champfleury who was naturalism pioneer, one of his friends, and a close friend of Courbet, to express his respect for the conducive struggle for modern painting.

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St Cecilia With Sts Paul John Evangelists Augustine

Cecilia was a pious Christian woman in Bologna. Due to her resistance due to marriage, she was determined to build a prayer room in her own home in order to pursue lifelong chastity. It is said that whenever she prays, she can hear the heavenly music, which is deemed as a holy thing in the local scale. After her death, the church made the main remains buried under the altar of Roman Talatstfo. Bologna church intentionally asked Raphael to paint her portrait; however, Raphael made this portrait into a allegory.

In this painting, Raphael made the virgin surrounded by followers of Jesus, St. Paul (the first on the left), and the gospel writer St. John (the second from left). Cecilia was raising her head to listen to the heavenly music with a certain mystique. From the church's request, the ordinary Bologna women can listen to the wonderful music of the heaven because of her faith in God, and enlightened by God. Then for them, the folk instruments became secular useless things which was scattered by them. The stringed and wind instruments on her hands were also disposed of. However, the background of the earth in the painting hided the Bologna people's living shadow, foreign aggression and political unrest, just as the scattered damaged instruments could not produce the satisfied music. Another point, it is said that Cecilia had an unhappy marriage and she vowed for lifelong service of God to protect the chastity. It did not mean she renounced the secular things, but through the good things - yearning for the heavenly music, to hint that her looking for better ideal life. Here, the hypocrisy of the heavenly sound was processed in the upper painting with light colors. The enchanted state of Cecilia eagerly expressed a girl's strong desire for happiness.

This picture had several images which are portrayed very successfully. Cecilia was just like a Fuliniao Madonna cocking her head to hear the real beauty of detached secular music, which expresses the mysterious desire in girl's heart. The left St. Paul was just like a spectator, looking down at all the dilapidated scene on the ground; on the right side, the Magdalene was splendidly painted, which was perhaps an ideal image of the whole painting, although she was also a bystander, but kept his eyes to seem to care about the end of all things. Magdalene had an oval face, graceful figure and wore faded robes. St. Paul had a sturdy physique which was a symbol of hope for justice. Raphael used the most beautiful human things to replace this hypocrisy legend, which was the unique expression of his aesthetic view.

The Creation Background of The Madonna Of The Chair

The Madonna of The Chair was created by Italian painter Raphael. His Madonna paintings are his artistic monument. All the perfect qualities of his Madonna stem from his keen insight of the folk women. Three characters in this painting including Madonna, the child and John are portrayed more lively than the previous works.

People think of Raphael's Sistine Madonna as the top female work. This painting can be regarded as the peak of Madonna paintings. But people cannot help asking, why the artist put three vivid images in this rounded box which has rarely clearance inside? In 1820, Italy had a Hermit Legend. From it, there was a rumor said that once upon a time, a noble person encountered wolves in the forest and he was very quick-witted to climb up the tree for survival. Later he was rescued by the daughter of a restaurant and better treated. Over a night, he left the woods in the next morning. And he predicted the oak tree and the girl that saved him would be good forever. After some years, oak trees were cut down for the hotel wine bottles; the girl was married and gave birth to two sons. One day, Raphael passed by here and saw the angel-like babies and young beautiful mother. In Raphael's eyes, nothing could be comparable to the theme of mother. Then his painting interest arose spontaneously. But there was no painting tool at present. He grabbed eagerly clay tablets on the ground, and painted these three people on the bottom of oak barrel at the hotel door. This is the origin of The Madonna Of The Chair, which seems to be true with the hermit's prophecy.

After all, legend is the legend. From the art history, such legend lacks of historical evidence. Because Hermit Legend was compiled in 1820, thus it could not be used as historical fact. Moreover, the legendary at the beginning of the 19th century is a product of the climax of romantic idea of literature in Italy. Combination of Hermit Legend and Raphael's masterpieces 300 years ago only accords with a part of people's worship. Besides, The Madonna of the Chair is not the painter's extemporization work. From the virgin's scarves, embroidery fabric with spike shawls and red jacket, blue cloak, and costume folk pattern, we can know the painter has profoundly observed the Italian folk images of women.

Raphael carefully puts three characters in a small round box. In order to show the parent-child affection, the layout is decorated very carefully. The child sits on his mother's right knee, but the left knee will be very difficult to deal with. If according to the actual appearance, then John will be squeezed out. The artist uses the pleats in his left knee to weaken its visual effect, let John take a position. John puts a symbolic crutch under his left elbow, thus he is not only an ordinary crutch, but also predicts Jesus will move towards the world as a pastor. The end of this stick is a simple cross, implying that John will be in the wilderness and repeatedly calls Jesus. It also implies the future of Jesus being suffered from cross. In Christian iconography, red generally symbolizes God's love, and blue symbolizes the truth of god.

What Can We See from 'Girl with a Pearl Earring'?

The famous painting The Girl with a Pearl Earring is also known as The Girl with a Turban. It was created by Johannes Vermeer in 17th century Delft, Netherlands. Vermeer, who was ignored for over two centuries after his death, is the third important representative in the field of Dutch painting of the seventeenth-century. As a result, we do not know much about this Dutch artist nor his paintings until recently he was rediscovered and is now regarded as one of the best Dutch painters.

Netherlands in the seventeenth century plays a special role in the history of European art. Girl with a Pearl Earring was painted during the 1660s among Warmer's other paintings like a lady standing at a virginal, girl with the red hat and so on. It is one of the masterpieces of Vermeer. It shows something mystery and especially left us the question "Who is that girl?" When we are looking at her in the painting, we will wonder why she is wearing a pearl earring and what about the turban. And we also want to know that what she was thinking about when the artist was painting.

Girl with a Pearl Earring is a small painting, not much bigger than the octavo paper. The oil paints have been crack and it looks like a seemingly insignificant small painting, but makes many men of letters and linger on without any thought of leaving. It is the protagonist of the painting that shock them ---- the girl with a Pearl Earring. We have no idea about who she is. Some people guess that the girl might be the daughter of Vermeer, but it is denied soon because the girl's age and date of the painting do not fit.

A glimpse of her in the painting seems to suck the soul of the viewers. In this painting, Vermeer uses full black background, which makes a very strong three-dimensional effect. The black background makes the girl beaming just like a light in the dark. She sideways and turns to us staring with lips slightly open, as if to tell us something. Her flashing eyes reveal ardent feelings and head slightly tilting to the left, as if lost in thoughts.

The charm of Mona Lisa lies in her mystery; no one knows why this woman has such a quiet smile. And this piece of work has the same mystery. A summary of Girl with a Pearl Earring from Tracey Chevalier is as follow: Girl with a Pearl Earring tells the story of Griet, a 16-year-old Dutch girl who is a maid in the house of Johannes Vermeer. Because of her calm and perceptive manner she becomes part of her master's work.