Sunday, January 30, 2011

1. Victorine Meurent, 1844-1927

Victorine Louise Meurent February 18, 1844 - March 17, 1927 .


Painted by Edouard Manet 1862

In her early life, she has been known as the favorite model of Edouard Manet. Modeling for many Manet paintings to include the following


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Victorine Meurent posing for Manet Woman with parrot 1866


Edouard Manet's painting 1873

 Around 1870 she started taking art classes and had become withdrawn from Manet. Almost all of her paintings and drawings have been lost with the exception of one.

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 Le Jour des Rameaux only surviving example of Meurent's artwork 1880 sold in 1930 and recovered in 2004 



Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Graffiti = BOMB IT


Even though graffiti is illegal it does show that its an art and a good way to express yourself or making a statement. Its amazing what art can do and how it can be expressed through either seeing or understanding the reason why people graffiti. For example; in the movie where it stated 'pairs' there was a lady who stated how  she described the eyes and the meaning for them like "mickey" stated that the eyes where always watching, so she liked drawing things that had eyes. Also, in "Capetown" people where stating that when they draw it means something to them, not just going and writing on walls. Now when you look at this picture what do you see? and what seems to make them happy?

Monday, January 24, 2011

The Matrix

I thought the movie was brilliant, the special effects were awesome. It was also cool because all they had to do was hook up a machine to Neo and he learned Martial Arts with in minutes.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Art Gallery

I went to the Art gallery and i took this picture and I thought it was pretty cool..

Tell me what you guys think...