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Auguste Rodin        Auguste Rodin Sculptor, Artist 1840–1917 French sculptor Auguste Rodin is known for creating several iconic works, including "The Age of Bronze," "The Thinker," "The Kiss" and "The Burghers of Calais. “Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” —Auguste Rodin HERE IS ALL THE INFORMATION The Thinker, French Le Penseur, sculpture of a pensivenude male by French artist Auguste Rodin , one of his most well-known works. Many marble and bronze editions in several sizes were executed in Rodin’s lifetime and after, but the most famous version is the 6-foot

( gora is an installation of 106 headless and  armless iron sculptures at the south end of Grant Park in Chicago. Designed by Polish artist  Magdalena Abakanowicz , ) Sculpture , an artistic form in which hard or plastic materials are worked into three-dimensional art objects. The designs may be embodied in freestanding objects, in reliefs on surfaces, or in  environments  ranging from tableaux to  contexts  that envelop the spectator. An enormous variety of media may be used, including  clay , wax, stone,  metal , fabric,  glass ,  wood ,  plaster , rubber, and random “found” objects. Materials may be carved, modeled, molded, cast, wrought, welded, sewn, assembled, or otherwise shaped and combined. Information here. https://www.britannica.com/art/sculpture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ1bty0-t1Y    10 sculptures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q5IVRkXJtk    Watch a Masterpiece Emerge from a Solid Block of Stone | Short Film Showcase

.          ..... Henri Matisse  Painter, Sculptor (1869–1954) Henri Matisse was a revolutionary and influential artist of the early 20th century, best known for the expressive color and form of his Fauvist style. “My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory; it is based on observation, on sensitivity, on felt experience.” https://www.biography.com/people/henri-matisse-9402564 recommended video here Marc Chagall Illustrator, Painter (1887–1985) Marc Chagall was a Belorussian-born French artist whose work generally was based on emotional association rather than traditional pictorial fundamentals “I know I must live in France, but I don’t want to cut myself off from America. France is a picture already painted. America still has to be painted. Maybe that’s why I feel freer there. But when I work in America, it’s like shouting in a forest. There’s no echo.” —Marc Chagall https://www.biography.com/peo

Expressionism and Abstract Art Sonia Delaunay Electric Prisms 1913 Edvard Munch. The Sick Child Expressionism Abstract Expressionism , artistic style in which the artist seeks to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective  emotions  and responses that objects and events arouse within a person. The artist accomplishes this aim through distortion, exaggeration,  primitivism , and fantasy and through the vivid, jarring, violent, or  dynamic  application of formal elements. The later 19th and the 20th centuries, and its qualities of highly subjective, personal, spontaneous self-expression are typical of a wide range of modern artists and art movements. the continuing interest in abstract art lies in its ability to inspire our curiosity about the reaches of our imagination  and the potential for us to create something completely unique in the world. “Abstract art has been with us in one form or another for almos

The artistic style known as "Neoclassicism" (also called " classicism ")was the predominant movement in European art and architecture during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It reflected a desire to rekindle the spirit and forms of classical art from ancient Greece and Rome, whose principles of order and reason were entirely in keeping with the European Age of Enlightenment.    The Oath of the Horatii n the 7th century BC, to put an end to the bloody war between Rome and Alba, both cities designated champions: the former chose the Horatii, the latter the Curiatii. The two families were linked by marriage. Jacques-Louis David depicts the Horatii swearing to defeat their enemies or die for their country. http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art/neo-classical.htm please watch this video first in order to understand better. here,click here

It began in 1699 after the French King, Louis XIV, demanded more youthful art to be produced under his reign. It is also referred to as Late Baroque because it developed as Baroque artists moved away from symmetry to more fluid designs . Rococo painting, which originated in early 18th century Paris, is characterized by soft colors and curvy lines, and depicts scenes of love, nature, amorous encounters, light-hearted entertainment, and youth. The word “rococo” derives from  rocaille , which is French for rubble or rock.  Rocaille  refers to the shell-work in garden grottoes and is used as a descriptive word for the serpentine patterns seen in the Decorative Arts of the Rococo period. Though educated thought was cultivated throughout the 18th century, a new kind of intellectual exchange began to develop, which became known as the Enlightenment. Out of this new cultural movement, ideas about art changed, and Rococo ideals of frivolity and elegant eroticism became less and less r

Baroque art and architecture , the  visual arts  and building design and construction produced during the era in the history of Western art that roughly coincides with the 17th century. The earliest  manifestations , which occurred in Italy, date from the latter decades of the 16th century, while in some regions, notably Germany and colonial  South America , certain culminating achievements of Baroque did not occur until the 18th century. The work that distinguishes the Baroque period is stylistically complex, even contradictory. In general, however, the desire to evoke emotional states by appealing to the senses, often in dramatic ways, underlies its manifestations. Some of the qualities most frequently associated with the Baroque are grandeur, sensuous richness,  drama , vitality, movement, tension, emotional exuberance, and a tendency to blur distinctions between the various arts. Anything with a complicated design can be  baroque but it also refers to a style of art, music, and