After visiting the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston for the first time, I observed many interesting works of art representing various time periods. Of all the paintings that I saw today, two landscaped pieces seemed to stick out in my mind; Andre Derain's The Turning Road and Thomas Hart Benton's Haystack. Though these two art works are similar in subject matter, they clearly reflect the different styles and time periods of their artists; the abstract Derain being a Fauvist and the more realistic painter Benton representing the American Scene style as a Regionalist. .
Andre Derain became an accomplice to the well known Henri Matisse who founded the expression of Fauvism in 1905. Fauve, meaning "wild beasts" in French, was a movement driven by "a desire to develop an art that had the directness of Impressionism but also had the intense color juxtapositions and their emotional capabilities (964)." The Fauves expressively used vivid colors as the "conveyer of meaning (965)" to produce bold and intense images which in turn, awakens the emotions of the viewer. And Derain, being a Fauvist, "used color to its fullest potentialto elicit emotional responses from the viewer (966)" not only in The Turning Road but also in his work The Dance, which perfectly supports the audacious style of Derain's Fauvism. Although this movement did not last very long, the paintings created in this period are vivid and memorable. When the 1930's emerged, the Great Depression took its' toll on artwork. In this period, artists from the Midwest called Regionalists "turned their attention to rural life as America's cultural backbone (1025)." Among these artists was Thomas Hart Benton, who became the leading exponent of American Regionalism and used his paintings to convey scenes about the hardworking rural poor of the Midwest throughout the depression. His realistic scenes of country life stem particularly from the rural historical and social past of Missouri (CM).
Jessie Benton Fremont was born May 31, 1824 into a political family. ... Jessie Benton Fremont's father, Thomas Hart Benton was a very prominent figure in both Jessie's childhood and way into her adulthood. ... Jessie Benton Fremont grew up during the early 1800's. ... As a child Jessie Benton Fremont was very outgoing. ... Jessie Benton Fremont and her siblings were tutored. ...
It is in the paper that we read the children's books we grew up with, and on the billboard s we pass on the side of the road. ... At the heart of this movement was Thomas Hart Benton. ... Thomas Hart Benton was born in Neosho Missouri in 1889; born in the post-civil war era, Benton saw significant change in his lifetime. ... This is exactly what Benton captures in his work. ... When closely examined, Benton's ...
(Tilley '94 conclusion) It's a long way from rural New South Wales to rural n/e France or more precisely the other way around but with the right light and a morning mist and possibly the squinting of eyes, a paddock with a haystack here could be there or there here. Though of course it would only be a trick of the mind and the light, the paddocks and the haystacks carry their own stories which would refuse to engage in such deception but they may be captured in their own elements, engaged in that moment of mist filled eye-squint, to mingle and enmesh with the viewers stories/ memori...
These paintings marked a turning point in the history of the Impressionist landscape. ... His grainstack or better known as haystack paintings were one of the series. He painted a profusion of haystack paintings, which focused mainly on light and color (Jackson). He painted haystacks in the morning, haystacks in the afternoon, haystacks in the evening, and haystacks in different seasons. After the haystacks and several others Monet focused almost solely on the water lilies. ...
Designer/Artist Encode Signs → Transmitted → Receiver → Decode signs Signs in graphics • Colour • image-Drawings-video-computer generated imagery-photos-stills-films • Text • Cultural references e.g. attitudes towards: social issues, nudity, sex, gender, homosexuality, swearing(FCUK) Colour is: Culturally determined Personal Connotive (meaning beyond) i.e. has association e.g. bright colours are associated with vulgarity (Austin Powers) Colour began in 1905 with the Fauvists Andre Derain and Henri M...
It was a short-lived art movement (1905-1908) that was adopted by a group of French painters: Henri Matisse, George Roualt, Claude Derain, Maurice de Vlamink, Georges Braque, Raoul Dufy, Othon Friesz, Albert Marquet, and Kees van Dongen (a Dutch painter living in Paris). ...
TURNING POINT by HUGH MACKAY Turning Point is an expository novel by Hugh Mackay, a "social commentator". ... The values of Mackay presents in Turning Point are those of the majority of Australians. ... Turning Point discusses the changes Australian society has experienced in the last 30 or so years. ... An example of ineffectiveness of underlying values and assumption is the Turning Point at the beginning of every chapter. ... The Turning Point incorporates an array of useless and obvious suggestions as how to overcome the problems he puts forward. ...
