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  Romantic Blog Post: Impressionism vs. Art Nouveau   In this post, I will be discussing and comparing four different paintings. I will also explain my feelings about the works and what they represent. Two pieces will be Impressionist works, specifically, Claude Monet's  San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk  and Vincent van Gogh’s  Starry Night on the Rhone . The other two works will be the Art Nouveau piece  Biscuits Lefevre Utile by  Alphonse Mucha and Gustav Klimt's  Judith Holding the Severed Head of Holofernes . After analyzing these four paintings individually, I will conclude by comparing the Impressionist and Art Neadeau styles and explaining which I prefer.   Impressionism The 1800s was a time of immense change and innovation for the arts and the world. The 19th century saw several short-lived but influential art movements rise and fall. Impressionism was a trend started in 1874 by a group of like-minded artists known as the Anonym...

  Classical Analysis of Jacques-Louis David’s Oath of the Horatii , Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello , and Joseph Wright’s A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery and How Scientific Advancements Influenced Them   The Classical Period of the 1700s was an enlightening era full of new discoveries and resurgences for the artistic and scientific communities. The art of the Rococo Period just before this time was all about elegant, soft, curving forms and figures that exhibited the owner’s wealth and privilege. The rising wealth of the middle classes during the Rococo Period significantly boosted the notoriety and clientele of artists during the time. This allowed artists to take more risks with their art, bolstering their wealth and status, and, in turn, the status of those able to buy their work. While this time brought with it many advancements for artists and their new middle-class clientele, the newly enlarged gap between the middle and lower classes fostered further resentmen...

  Baroque Art Analysis of Johannes Vermeer’s  Girl with a Pearl Earring     Painted between 1665 and 1666 Girl With a Pearl Earring is a 17 ½ x 15 3/8 in. oil painting on canvas by Johannes Vermeer. Girl With a Pearl Earring was made in the city of Delft in the Netherlands where Vermeer spent his entire life. It is unknown who this painting was originally created for but it soon made its way into the collection of his patron Maria de Knuijt (What’s Special). Vermeer most commonly was a genre painter, this painting however is classified as a tronie portrait (Zalazko, Girl). Tronies are a distinctly Dutch subcategory of portraiture that featured idealized faces or exaggerated expressions which means that this portrait is of no specific individual although a person may have posed for it (Girl). It is not fully accepted, but, if an individual did pose for this tronie, it would have most likely been Vermeer’s daughter Maria (Binstock). Maria was an excellent paint...