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Matthew A. Sanchez Kristen Jones Fine Art April 30, 2018 Fauvism          Fauvism is a style of painting which emphasized on strong color usage and variation of color in painting. The style started in 1904 and kept going strongly until 1910, this movement lasted only a few years but it had a strong effect on people throughout this time. Its main founders wer e Andre Derain and Henri Matisse.

Matthew A. Sanchez Kristen Jones Fine Art  April 30, 2018 Goya         Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish painter and printmaker. He was an artist throughout the Romantic period, which was a period in which people returned to the thoughts of paganism and being narcissistic, in a nutshell.  Most of his work were portraits of families or portraits of people alone. He was one of the great contemporary portraitists. He became a court painter in 1786 this is where his portraits for families came since he started painting aristocratic families.

Matthew A. Sanchez Kristen Jones Fine Art March 4, 2018  Arts & Crafts Movement          The Arts & Crafts Movement started in Europe and North America from 1880 and 1920. It also started to emerge in Japan in the 1920s. It usually took form in Medieval, romantic or folk styles of decoration. It was usually used in craftsmanship, it was usually used in anti-industrial propaganda. It was pretty strong in Europe until the 1930s when Modernism started to take its place. This term was first used by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson in an exhibition in 1887. The movement was inspired by Augustus Pugin, A writer John Ruskin, and William Morris a designer.

Matthew A. Sanchez Kristen Jones Fine Art March 28, 2018 Rococo         The word "Rococo" refers to the Late Baroque art period that took place during the Enlightenment Period. It was normally a very decorative art style. It was the point where the baroque art style started to close off and move on to the next style. Some artists would be Jean-Antoine Watteau, Fran çois Boucher, and Jean-Honore Fragonard.

Matthew A. Sanchez Kristen Jones Fine Art March 21, 2018 Vermeer         Johnannes Vermeer is a dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of what a middle class life would be like. He was slightly successful with his work, though he wasn't near being rich throughout his life. After his death it was clear that he wasn't rich since he left his wife and kids in his pile of debt. However, its thought that the reason for this is because he barely had done many paintings throughout his career. Almost all of his paintings seem to be inside of two small rooms in his house. Vermeer had produced an estimated 50 paintings throughout his lifetime, though only 34 have survived. The first dated one was in 1656 and that last dated one was in 1669, only three of them were dated. All of the Vermeer paintings seem to be charcoal based and are all black and white. All of the paintings are realistic and are done in a normal position, like someone doing an everyday...

Matthew A. Sanchez Kristen Jones Fine Art February 7, 2018         Jan Van Eyck was a painter in Bruges, and usually considered one of the founders of Early Netherlandish painting. He lived from 1390 until 1441 when he died in Bruges. He would mostly use oil type paintings since he developed his own way of art with it. His art form comes from the International Gothic art style. "The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck is a double portrait of an Italian merchant and his wife" is a symbolism in the painting which was presented by galleryintel.com. Its also stated that the candle could signify the couple's long lasting love, or the eye all the all-seeing god watching over them. The oranges are also thought to be a symbolism for fertility between the couple.