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Art is really a battle

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Self Portrait Saluting, 1866 — Edgar Degas

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Edgar Degas, July 19, 1834, Paris, France

Edgar Degas, July 19, 1834, 8:30 PM, LMT -00:09:20, Paris, France, 2e20'00, 48n52'00, Geocentric, Tropical, Placidus, True Node, Public Rec AA

Sun in Cancer sesquiquadrate Cyllarus (artistic work that comes from full expression, such as painting with the hands, musical skill, culinary ability (after completing his schooling Degas decided on a career in art)) in Sagittarius, quincunx Eris (personal sense of emergence (even his detractors saw Degas as a leader of a movement as well as an individualist)) in Aquarius.

"Art is really a battle."

Edgar Degas (born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, 19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings. He is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers. Regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, he rejected the term, preferring to be called a realist.

Degas was a superb draftsman, and particularly masterly in depicting movement, as can be seen in his rendition of dancers and bathing female nudes. In addition to ballet dancers and bathing women, Degas painted racehorses and racing jockeys, as well as portraits. His portraits are notable for their psychological complexity and their portrayal of human isolation.

At the beginning of his career, Degas wanted to be a history painter, a calling for which he was well prepared by his rigorous academic training and close study of classical Western art. In his early thirties he changed course, and by bringing the traditional methods of a history painter to bear on contemporary subject matter, he became a classical painter of modern life.

How Degas Distinguished Himself From The Other Impressionists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7sYaTBfzdI&list=WL&index=7

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I paint as I feel like painting; to hell with all their studies

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Self Portrait – Édouard Manet

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Édouard Manet, January 23, 1832, Paris, France

Édouard Manet, January 23, 1832, 7:00 PM, LMT -00:09:20, Paris, France, 2e20'00, 48n52'00, Geocentric, Tropical, Placidus, True Node

Sun in Aquarius sextile Cyllarus in Sagittarius (artistic work that comes from full expression, such as painting with the hands, musical skill, culinary ability (during his schooldays he'd shown a talent for drawing, therefore in 1849 Édouard's wealthy father made available the funds to train as an artist)) trine Echeclus (conceptual theories, spatial relations (I no longer want to paint classical paintings, I want to be a modern contemporary artist, and this is a modern subject)) in Libra, sextile Pelion (job recognition, awards and accolades (the portrait of Rochford was not only accepted by the salon but awarded a medal)) in Aries.

"I paint as I feel like painting; to hell with all their studies."

Édouard Manet (23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.

Born into an upper-class household with strong political connections, Manet rejected the naval career originally envisioned for him; he became engrossed in the world of painting. His early masterworks, The Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l'herbe) and Olympia, premiering in 1863 and '65, respectively, caused great controversy with both critics and the Academy of Fine Arts, but soon were praised by progressive artists as the breakthrough acts to the new style, Impressionism. These works, along with others, are considered watershed paintings that mark the start of modern art. The last 20 years of Manet's life saw him form bonds with other great artists of the time; he developed his own simple and direct style that would be heralded as innovative and serve as a major influence for future painters.

How Impressionism's Most Controversial Artist Craved Notoriety https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syNcfltwXgU

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I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!

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Camille Pissarro — Self-portrait

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Camille Pissarro, July 10, 1830, Saint-Thomas des Antilles

Camille Pissarro, July 10, 1830, 12:00 PM (Unknown), Saint-Thomas des Antilles, 18°n20'00, 64°w55'00, Geocentric, Tropical, Equal Sun on 1st, True Node

Sun in Cancer trine Cyllarus (artistic work that comes from full expression, such as painting with the hands, musical skill, culinary ability (helped establish a collective society of fifteen aspiring artists, becoming the "pivotal" figure in holding the group together)) in Scorpio. Mercury in Gemini square & Uranus in Aquarius sesquiquadrate Echeclus (conceptual theories, spatial relations (they began to reject the dark tones of the typical salon painting and came to the viewpoint that light was more important than form)) in Virgo.

"I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!"

Camille Pissarro (10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies). His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Pissarro studied from great forerunners, including Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. He later studied and worked alongside Georges Seurat and Paul Signac when he took on the Neo-Impressionist style at the age of 54.

In 1873 he helped establish a collective society of fifteen aspiring artists, becoming the "pivotal" figure in holding the group together and encouraging the other members. Art historian John Rewald called Pissarro the "dean of the Impressionist painters", not only because he was the oldest of the group, but also "by virtue of his wisdom and his balanced, kind, and warmhearted personality".[1] Paul Cézanne said "he was a father for me. A man to consult and a little like the good Lord", and he was also one of Paul Gauguin's masters. Pierre-Auguste Renoir referred to his work as "revolutionary", through his artistic portrayals of the "common man", as Pissarro insisted on painting individuals in natural settings without "artifice or grandeur".

Pissarro is the only artist to have shown his work at all eight Paris Impressionist exhibitions, from 1874 to 1886. He "acted as a father figure not only to the Impressionists" but to all four of the major Post-Impressionists, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, and van Gogh.

Pissarro's Legacy As The "Father Of Impressionism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx-d34fu_i8

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It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly

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Claude Monet — Self-Portrait, 1886

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Claude Monet, November 14, 1840, Paris, France

Claude Monet, November 14, 1840, 12:00 PM (Unknown), Paris, France, 2e20'00, 48n52'00, Geocentric, Tropical, Equal Sun on 1st, True Node

Sun conjunct Jupiter in Scorpio sextile Echeclus (conceptual theories, spatial relations (for Monet, the whole painting had to be produced within the whole light scheme)) in Capricorn, square Eris (personal sense of emergence (radical new approach to painting)) in Aquarius.

"It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly."

Oscar-Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter, a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air landscape painting.

Monet was raised in Le Havre, Normandy, and became interested in the outdoors and drawing from an early age. Although his mother, Louise-Justine Aubrée Monet, supported his ambitions to be a painter, his father, Claude-Adolphe, disapproved and wanted him to pursue a career in business. He was very close to his mother, but she died in January 1857 when he was sixteen years old, and he was sent to live with his childless, widowed but wealthy aunt, Marie-Jeanne Lecadre. He went on to study at the Académie Suisse, and under the academic history painter Charles Gleyre, where he was a classmate of Auguste Renoir. His early works include landscapes, seascapes, and portraits, but attracted little attention. A key early influence was Eugène Boudin, who introduced him to the concept of plein air painting. From 1883, Monet lived in Giverny, also in northern France, where he purchased a house and property and began a vast landscaping project, including a water-lily pond.

Monet's ambition to document the French countryside led to a method of painting the same scene many times so as to capture the changing of light and the passing of the seasons. Among the best-known examples are his series of haystacks (1890–1891), paintings of Rouen Cathedral (1892–1894), and the paintings of water lilies in his garden in Giverny, which occupied him for the last 20 years of his life. Frequently exhibited and successful during his lifetime, Monet's fame and popularity soared in the second half of the 20th century when he became one of the world's most famous painters and a source of inspiration for a burgeoning group of artists.

How Claude Monet Transformed French Painting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVQSZ7Rvs2c

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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution

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Self Portrait — Paul Cézanne

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Paul Cezanne, January 19, 1839, Aix-en-Provence, France

Paul Cezanne, January 19, 1839, 1:00:00 AM, LMT -00:21:40, Aix-en-Provence, France, 5e25'00, 43n32'00, Geocentric, Tropical, Placidus, True Node, Public Rec AA

Sun in Capricorn trine Mars in Virgo and Nessus (represents the outcast of a family (grew up in a respectable middle class background and he was a bit of a misfit)) in Taurus. Nessus square Eris (general sense of being forsaken, condemned or abandoned (impressionists paintings were too radical for contemporary taste and no artist received more vitriol than Paul Cezanne)) in Aquarius.

"The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution."

Paul Cézanne (19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne’s often repetitive, exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. He used planes of colour and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields. The paintings convey Cézanne’s intense study of his subjects.

Cézanne is said to have formed the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and the early 20th century’s new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism.

While his early works were influenced by Romanticism—such as the murals in the Jas de Bouffan country house—and Realism, Cézanne arrived at a new pictorial language through intense examination of Impressionist forms of expression. He altered conventional approaches to perspective and broke established rules of academic art by emphasizing the underlying structure of objects in a composition and the formal qualities of art. Cézanne strived for a renewal of traditional design methods on the basis of the impressionistic colour space and colour modulation principles.

Cézanne's often repetitive, exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. He used planes of colour and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields. The paintings convey Cézanne's intense study of his subjects.[citation needed]

His painting initially provoked incomprehension and ridicule in contemporary art criticism. Until the late 1890s it was mainly fellow artists such as Camille Pissarro and the art dealer and gallery owner Ambroise Vollard who discovered Cézanne's work and were among the first to buy his paintings. In 1895, Vollard opened the first solo exhibition in his Paris gallery, which led to a broader examination of Cézanne's work. Both Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso are said to have remarked that Cézanne "is the father of us all".

The Man Who Inspired Picasso: Who Was The Real Cézanne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxUFxlNBVMs

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Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool

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Self Portrait Near Golgotha, 1896 — Paul Gauguin