Salvador Dali was born in Figures, Spain on May 11, 1904. His father was a…
Salvador Felipe Jacinto’s “The persistence of memory” painted in 1931 in a town called Catalonia. It is one of Salvador’s most important and critical historical artwork of the surrealist movement and is extremely well known amongst artists all over the world. Salvador Dali was born on May 11, 1904 in the Spanish town of Figueres. He is one of the founding creators of the surrealist movement from the early 1900’s. The painting itself is known by millions and is even used in popular culture right into the 21’st century (The Biography. 2015).…
The “Sarcophagus Depicting a Battle between Soldiers and Amazons” is a Roman sarcophagus dedicated for an important Roman soldier. It was made sometime between 140 A.D. to 170 A.D. and was made out of marble. The lid of coffin was designed to appear like that of a roof Greek temple due to it triangular shape. There are five rows of vertical tiles along the side of the lid and at the end of each row is a lion head. Along the side of the sarcophagus is a high relief, the subjects appear almost free standing and not appear to be attach to the stone that it was carve from, depicts a battle scene. All these features on the sarcophagus is intended to glorify the soldier intern within and to demonstrate his achievement in life.…
This was done deliberately, as a self-conscious political commitment. 1 Rivera was born to a middle-class family in Guanajuato in 1886. He was said to have drawn obsessively from the age of three. When he was ten he entered art school, in Mexico City. In 1907, a scholarship took him to Paris, where he stayed for fourteen years. While there he became a credible Cubist and a friend of bohemian luminaries, including Modigliani and Soutine. After the triumph of the Mexican revolution, Rivera returned to Mexico, where the brilliant minister of education, Jose Vasconcelos, envisioned a program for public arts. In the year 1922 Rivera joined the Mexican Communist Party where he was later expelled from. In august of that year, Rivera later married fellow artist Frida Kahlo.…
Suffering from mental illness and poverty, Vincent Van Gogh was able to overcome all of his problems and become one of the best artists ever known. Vincent Van Gogh influenced art in the 20th century and new styles of art. Van Gogh’s artwork was so different and creative that it was able to influence many other artists.…
This paper is a formal analysis of the Marble grave stele with a family group relief sculpture. It is a pentelic marble style relief standing at 171.1cm tall carved by a master. It is from the Late Classical period of Greek, Attic which was completed around ca.360 B.C. . I chose to analyze this piece as apposed to the others because I’m mainly attracted to art and sculptures from the Greek era. The overall color used in this relief is ivory with a few cracks and pieces broken off. There is some discoloration which causes the color to come off as slightly light brown for most of the relief. The sculpture appears larger compared to the other sculptures in the art room. It represents a family which includes a man, his wife, and their child united on one high relief. There is a fourth character that is a part of the relief but she appears to be incomplete. The high relief contributes to the overall size of this sculpture by expanding the shape and proportions of all the characters. The right side is compact consisting of three of the four characters while the left is loose with just a head present.…
Pablo Picasso was a very famous painter, he was considered as one of the greatest painters in the 20th century. He was born in spain in 1881, his father was an art teacher. In 1891, Picasso studied at the Institute da Guarda in north spain, where his father, educated students about art. Picasso was exposed to several forms of art, including literature. In 1895, Picasso's sister, Conchita, died. After that his family moved to Barcelona where he attended more classes in La Lonja.…
Salvador Dali (5.11.1904 – 1.23.1989) was born in Figures, Spain. He is a Spanish artist that was best known for his painting, ‘‘The Persistence of Memory.’’ His striking and bizarre images are what caught peoples eye. Many of his paintings reflect his love of Port Lligat in Spain. He was never limited to a specific style or media.…
Pablo Picasso- 20th Century GeniusThe author 's nomination for the 20th Century Genius Award proudly goes to Pablo Picasso. Pablo Picasso was probably the most famous artist of the twentieth century. An Unknown author stated that, "Picasso changed the meaning of art in so many ways, while showing that he had enormous skill, dedication and a little bit of craziness. His life spans many different perspectives in art, and his artistic timeline stretches, bends, twists, and even breaks in some points. From the Blue period, to sketches, to pure abstraction, this master of art was always able to get his point across; and quite wonderfully too."Born in Málaga on October 25, 1881, Picasso was the son of José Ruiz Blasco, an art teacher, and María Picasso…
Genre paintings have always made bold statements regarding the “everyday life” of whichever time period they were completed in. Scenes could range from parties in a domestic setting in France, to bitterly realistic views of street and slum life during the Gilded Age in the United States.…
Salvador Dali was born May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Spain. His father, Salvador Dalí y Cusi, was a middle class lawyer and notary. His mother, Felipa Domenech Ferres often indulged young Salvador in his art and early eccentricities. It has been said that young Salvador was an intelligent child, yet prone to fits of anger against his parents and schoolmates.…
Pablo Picasso was born in Màlaga, Spain, in 1881. Picasso was raised by his mother Doña Maria and his father Don Josè Ruiz Blasco. Picasso's father was an art teacher and started teaching him how to draw as a child. "By the time he was 13 years old, his skill level had surpassed his fathers" ("Pablo Picasso Biography"). Attending school was a challenge for Picasso because all he wanted to do was doodle and that caused him to get in trouble. "In 1895, when Picasso was 14 years old, he moved with his family to Barcelona, Spain. Picasso…
This past weekend, I decided to re-visit the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena and picked out the Reclining Nude by Jean-Antoine Watteau which dated 1713-1717 and its medium was oil on panel.…
Two influential artists that inspired Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech (or Dali for short)were Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro. He met Picasso in 1926 after being expelled from his school. He also started growing a flamboyant mustache after Biegor Velazquez another one of his influences. Even with Picasso and Miro both influencing him he still had his own unique style of art. Most of Dali’s work was original since he had his own style, but still Picasso did influence some of his painting like Dali’s “experimentation with impressionism and cubism before joining the surrealist movement in 1929”.…
Dali was a Spaniard born on 11 May 1904 in the little village of Cadaques. Dali came from a middle class family. Dali's parents had wealthy cultivated friends who encouraged young Dali's wonderful talent. At seventeen Dali's mother died and he left home to study art at the San Fernando Academy in Madrid, here he became close friends with two other students who also became famous: 20th century poet 'Federico Garcia Lorca' and director 'Luis Bunuel'. Dali was considered a rebel by the academy authorities because of the clothes he wore and his style of painting. He was also suspended for a year for being accused of insubordination.…