Impressionism

Botticelli, Sandro The Adoration of Magi

1474

Bottecelli, Sandro: 1445-1510 Sandro Bottecelli’s real name was Alessandro Di Mariano Filipepi. Alessandro was born in Florence, Italy in 1445. Sandro was a Florentine Painter. He then became apprenticed to Fra Filippo Lippo. Bottecelli became very popular in the Renaissance place. Alessandro spent his whole life in Florence, Italy except for his one visit to Rome. In his early years, Bottecelli was a goldsmith and he was also part of the Medici Family. When Bottecelli was about 14 or 15 years old, he was sent to the great painter, Fra Filippo. There he learned to mix colors, clean brushes, and he was greatly influenced by Fra Filippo. In 1465 Bottecelli owned his own art studio. At the age of 56 no other paintings were discovered by Bottecelli. It is told that Bottecelli died alone with no wife or family. Bottecelli was so magnificent at making his artwork that he could make 50-100 florins per picture. Bottecelli was such an extraordinary artist that he made 3 frescos in the Sistine Chapel. This was then shown in 1484. Some very famous paintings established by Bottecelli were The Judith, Primavera which was made in 1477, The Adoration of Magi, Birth of Venus which was painted in 1484, Madonna the Magnificent, Virgin Enthroned, also the painting Mars and Venus was painted by Alessandro Di Mariano Filipepi. (Kylee, Eddy, Colin) __**Claude Monet:**__ (1840-1926) **Famous Quote:** “Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.” **Interesting Fact**: He was in the army in Algeria for two years from 1860-1862 Claude Monet was born in Paris and started his art career in caricaturist. In 1858 Monet was introduced to landscape art. In 1853 Monet set up a floating studio and began painting landscapes impressionist style. In 1874 to 1876 Monet dealt with a lot of criticism. In the 1880's Monet began to sell a lot of his work. He was then the first impressionist to develop an international reputation extending all the way to the United States. Until the develop of cubism held his position as one of France's premiere artists. Monet painted at Giverny making famous paintings until he died. During the 1870's Monet and Renoir invented the broken color technique. It was then when they realized the image of light and also atmosphere. When a hostile critic looked at his 1874 paintings entitled impression sunrise the term impressionism was created. Monet kind of copies Manet’s concept of painting and put it into his landscape paintings. According to Monet Manet’s paintings were flooded with color and were very shimmering. In the 1880s people began to stop with impressionist views but Monet did not stop he stayed faithful. In 1890 Monet moved to Giverny and for the next 40 years he painted pictured on his water lily garden. (Christina Juroff, Jordan Smith)

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 * Artist ** : Claude Monet (1840-1926)

** Famous quote ** : Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

** Interesting fact: ** Monet was one of the creators of Impressionism

**Bio:** Claude Monet was born in France. He was raised on the Normandy coast. His work began to become more popular in 1880. In 1890, he began to paint pictures in series. He also liked to paint Japanese gardens. By 1900 he was quite affluent and exhibited regularly

Ben Cripe, Jacob Nine, Jate Cross


 * Edgar Degas ** (1834-1917)

Degas’s father realized at a young age that he had much talent as an artist, and encouraged him to pursue it. In the late 1850’s on a trip to Italy, Degas became strongly influenced by the paintings and frescoes he saw. After 1865 he started painting scenes of modern life, mainly focusing his attention on horse racing, café-concert singers and ballet dancers. Degas had a wide range of media, including engraving, monotype and photography. Degas eyesight began to fail by the late 1800’s. Degas continued his art until 1912, when he was forced to leave his studio. He later died in 1917 at the age of 83. (Angela Cook, Emliy Keyser, Mackenzie Kauffman)

Artist: Edgar Degas

Quote: “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”

Fact: By the late 1880’s he began to loose his vision due an injury he sustained when defending Paris during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 to 71. Biography: Degas was born in 1834 to a wealthy family and was very educated at a young age. His father recognized his son’s artistic gifts early and encouraged him by taking him frequently to Paris art museums. Before 1880, he generally used oils for his completed works, which were based on sketches made in pencil or pastel. He became intrigued by dancers and made about 1,500 works on this subject. In his later years he started to become depressed, probably as a consequence of his increasing blindness. Degas continued working as late as 1912, when he was forced to leave the studio in Montmartre in which he had worked in for more then 20 years. He then after five years died in 1917 at the ripe old age of eighty-three.(Vanessa Raber and Emma Brewer)

Edgar Degas, Jockeys in the Rain, 1886