The New Ages Of Arts & Entertainment

Jaques Tissot was born in 1836, at Nantes a French Seaport. He was always interested in things nautical and this can be seen in the accuracy of the rigging and ship scenes that he later painted. His father was a successful shopkeeper and a devout Roman Catholic and Jaques was sent to a Jesuit school. His father was not at all happy with Jacques choice of career, but he did eventually relent.

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Gustave Moreau was born in 1826 in France. His father was an architect who relented to his son’s wishes to train as a painter. Gustave studied under Picot, who was not as well credentialed as other teachers but he was a clever art teacher. He then trained under Chassau, with whom he got on well.

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OVARTACI (1894-1981) hasn’t obtained the fame he deserved. Somehow he hasn’t been able to make it internationally even though he was a renowned artist in his homeland of Denmark. I think the reason is that he wasn’t only a brilliant and very unique artist, but also a psychiatric patient, committed to the Asylum of Risskov for many, many years. He takes some rethinking to assess and unfortunately almost nothing has been written about him except in Danish.

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Jean-Leon Gerome was born in 1824 and he died in 1904. He became a celebrated painter, against the wishes of his father, who was a goldsmith. He was able to generate a sufficient income by painting religious cards and selling them at churches, while he was studying. He received a large commission from the French government in 1840 to paint the “Age of Augustus” and in order to prepare for the painting, he traveled widely to the near east and middle east. On these trips he learned to paint the detail and capture the essences of other cultures. He also learned to speak different languages.

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Jean Leon Gerome was born in 1834 in Versoul, France, not far from the border with Switzerland. His father was a goldsmith and his mother was from a merchants family. Jean-Leon was a high achieving academic student, receiving prizes in chemistry, physics and art. He completed school in 1840 and was sent to Paris to study with Paul Delaroche, an interesting individual who was a sought after teacher. His ways were rigorous. Mornings were taken up with drawing form a model and the afternoons were for private study in sketching or drawing countryside or street scenes.

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Sir John Everett Millais was born in Southampton in 1829. His parents were well known and successful people. They moved to Jersey for a while and then to London in 1838 in order to help their son develop his art career. Millais became the youngest ever student at the Royal Academy in 1840, and was known as “The child”, and his talent caused envy among the other students. He was very agile on his feet and afraid of nothing and this helped him survive the time at the Academy. He made lifelong friends at the Royal Academy in William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rosetti. This meeting caused the beginnings of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhod.

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The term Old Master refers to artists or painters that painted between 1400 and 1900. (Some say to 1800) These painters were mainly from Europe. They were people who were fully trained and worked independently. Some of them are household names, even today, like Rembrandt, Leonardo, Rubens, Raphael and Michelangelo. Professional art critiques tend to avoid the term Old Masters, however it is still used by many who admire the works of those painters.

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Lawrence lived a passion for art all of his life. He showed potential from an early age, but is not classed as a child prodigy, as he did not attend any formal “master classes” until he was sixteen years of age. He trained in Antwerp under landscape artists and excelled in his work. He did not win many prizes as a young man, but he simply pursued his passion until the results followed.

Below is a very short list of his works, listed in date order.

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Pablo Picasso was born in 1881 and dies in 1973. Pablo Picasso was a major force in art of the 20th century. His work led many movements and is still a major influence on contemporary art. He made the strongest move to abstraction in the art world of the time with his Cubistic style of painting.

Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain. His father was a painter of nature, especially birds. Picasso’s father was a professor of art in the School of Crafts. Picasso showed an interest in art from an early age. Picasso attended art schools through most of his childhood, some of those classes were taught by his father. He decided not to finish art college at the Academy of Arts and left before completing his first year.

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Paul Delaroche was worn in 1797 in Paris. His real name was Hippolyte Delaroche. His father was a wealthy, successful trader and was delighted that Paul showed talent as an artist at an early age. Paul was placed under the tutelage of L E Waterlet (a landscape painter) and later Baron Gros (from 1818), who painted life size historical scenes. He later went on to become a successful teacher himself.

He painted a wide range of historical scenes, but was particularly inspired by English history as can be seen form the painting “The death of Queen Elizabeth” in 1828. He also painted religious art, and during his life his work received wide international acclaim, although as with all artists there were some notable detractors, like Theophile Gautier.

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