Part 1 In 3-5 sentences, using the French that
you have learned from Rosetta Stone and this lesson, respond to the writing
prompt: Présentez votre famille. Your answer must address the writing prompt.
PART 2
Share your research in your own words with the class. Please include any applicable images to illustrate your presentation. Since this Discussion is about visual arts, images In this Discussion, select a French artist (non-musical) or architect and do a bit of research are required. Successful posts are typically approximately 250 words in length or more.
part 3
Respond to 2 of your peers posts in order to enrich your understanding of the French-speaking world.
100 words successful response
PART 1
In 3-5 sentences, using the French that you have learned from Rosetta Stone and
this lesson, respond to the writing prompt: Présentez votre famille. Your answer
must address the writing prompt.
Example:
J’ai une grande famille. J’ai une sÅ“ur et un frère. Ma sÅ“ur est jolie et
intelligente. Mon frère est riche. Mon fils a trois ans.
For my family you can make something up , but Include that I have 2 brothers
and 2 sisters.
PART 2
In this Discussion, select a French artist (non-musical) or architect and do a bit
of research
Share your research in your own words with the class. Please include any
applicable images to illustrate your presentation. Since this Discussion is about
visual arts, images are required.
Successful posts are typically approximately 250 words in length or more.
Respond to 2 of your peers posts in order to enrich your understanding of the French-speaking world.
100 words successful response
POST 1
Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
I am finding through my French culture discussions, I do have a love for the art, history and French
culture. Henri Matisse was born in 1869 and originally trained as a lawyer. Upon moving to Paris in 1891
to study art at the age of 21 and experimented with impressionism, post-impressionism, influenced by
Gauguin, Cézanne, and van Gogh. Henri Matisse began exhibiting his work around 1895. During a trip to
Saint-Tropez visiting Paul Signac, Henri Matisse discovered the bright light of southern France and
started him on the path of a brighter palette. This piece started Matisse on a path of bold colors and
broad brushstrokes typical of the Fauves. (See below)
Throughout his life, color was a key element of his work, he defined as “the art of arranging in a
decorative manner all the various elements at the painter’s disposal for the expression of his
feelings†We move into a new period with Henri Matisse as he was the key figure of the Fauvist
movement. The Fauvist movement was driven by a desire to develop an art that had the directness and
anti theoretical orientation of Impressionism but that also used bright colors and emotional capabilities
of van Gogh and others. During the Fauve movement, which lasted only about 5 years, it gave an
amazing new direction of art by demonstrating color structure, expressive, and aesthetic
capabilities. Henri Matisse had several periods of art and did change stylistically but, he remained firm
to discover the essential character of things and produce an art of “balance, purity, and serenity.â€Â
(Gardner’s Art through the Ages, 2001)
While we were in Paris, we were fortunate enough to enjoy this piece in person and many others
throughout the museums we visited. Luxe, calme et volupté (1904; Centre Georges Pompidou,
Paris) What I personally enjoy about his art is the harmonious relationship between the human figure
and the landscape and being married to a Artist learning having my husband explain his art deeper than
just the visual. Below is a virtual tour of the Centre Georges Pompidou Henri Matisse (On the occasion
of the hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Henri Matisse (1869 – 1954), the Centre
Pompidou pays homage to him with the exhibition “Matisse, comme un roman” [Like a novel], with
more than two hundred and thirty works and seventy documents and archives.)
Bibliography
Gardner, Helen, and Fred S. Kleiner. 2015. Gardner’s Art through the ages: a global history
POST 2
Bonsoir,
Gaspard-Félix Tournachon was born was born April 5, 1820. He was born in Paris France. As he was
going to medical school, to pay for tuition Gaspard-Félix wrote for three newspapers on theater criticism
(Whitmire). In 1839 he started to go by the name Nadar on the columns he would write. By 1845, he
had published 15 books along with numerous articles. He also was into caricatures, before he got into
photography. Nadar opened his photography studio in 1860 where he photographed fellow artist,
writers and musicians. He posed his subjects in a relaxed way while using a Rembrandt-style lighting.
Rembrandt-style lighting is just a light to get the shadow behind the subject. It helps focus in on the
subject slightly better. That was Nadar’s specialty. He photographed people like Claude Monet and
Eugène Delacroix. He hosted the first Impressionist exhibition at his studio in 1874. He also took the first
aerial photograph from a hot air balloon, however those photos have since been lost
unfortunately. Nadar built a giant balloon, 12 stories high, but it failed. He was keen on the
development of aeronautics. He retired from his studied in 1886. Where his son Paul tried to capture
the same technique as his father, but couldn’t quite get it. Paul did manage to modernize portrait
photographs. Nadar passed away on March 23rd, 1910.
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