Neo-Classicism through Post-Impressionism

Topic: Neo-Classicism through Post-Impressionism (late 18th-19th century)

Museum: The J. Paul Getty Museum

City: Los Angeles

Date: 09th April, 2011

The J. Paul Getty Museum:

The museum was founded by oil magnate Paul Getty (1892-1976), who was at the time of death the richest man in the world. Abandoned on the needs of the museum's multi-billion the state has made the wealthiest J. Paul Getty Museum purchaser works of "old masters and ancient sculpture at the prestigious auctions in London and New York.

The museum is so zealously set about buying up canvases by the great artists that during the 1980's. They were accused of creating artificial excitement on the art market, which led to the beyond price hikes. In 2006, the Getty Center was implicated in the scandal connected with the smuggling of antiquities out of Italy and Greece (such as the bronze " Athlete of Fano). The Italian government has demanded the museum to return all property removed from the country illegally. (Duncan, 1991, 23-29)

Neo Classicism through Post Impressionism:

Post-Impressionism is a set of artistic movements during the period from approximately 1885 to 1915, differs from the impressionism or opposes him.

The term Post-Impressionism is an extremely vague appellation, applied mainly to Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec and Seurat, but often used to describe other progressive artists who followed the great decade of Impressionism (1.87 thousand - in 1880).

We can differentiate two kinds of paintings in the Post-Impressionism.

* The influence of Seurat

The table titled Island of the bowl represents life Sunday at the time. The artists belonging to this movement are the main subject their daily lives.

* The "couple" Paul Gauguin / Van Gogh Vincent

Van Gogh arrived in Paris in 1886 and then discovered the paintings impressionist. He chose his technique: a lot more passionate, more lyrical and expressionistic than ...