Canaletto played a large role in depicting Venetian lifestyles and cityscapes through his use of light, color, and detail in his eighteenth-century paintings and drawings. He was considered one of the first Venetian vedutisti, or view painters, and is most notably recognized for his creative interpretations of his native city, otherwise known as capricci. This study is…

In the early twentieth century, ideas of beauty and aesthetic were being drastically transformed, in part due to artists’ reactions and responses to the industrial revolution and mass production. The utopian ideal set forth by the Bauhaus was to create a total work of art in the world, one in which uniformity, affordability, and novel…

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was one of the great pioneering artists who led contemporary art of the early decades of the twentieth century into his unique form of pure abstraction. Ranging between subtly enigmatic and boldly explosive, especially in his use of color, Kandinsky’s art reflects his personal experimentations with the creative process. What will be…

Under Emperor Napoleon III’s reign, Baron Georges Haussmann redesigned and reconstructed Paris by adding boulevards and green spaces, creating the city that we recognize today. The French Impressionists reacted to the new cityscape and painted in their signature style to capture Paris’ flourishing popularity and effervescent atmosphere. This lecture addresses the vantage points from which…