Salvador Dali was born on May 11, 1904 to parents Salvador Dali Cusi and Felipa Domenech Ferres. Dali was born in Figueres, a small town outside of Barcelona, to a wealthy family. His father was a prominent notary which may have lead to his firm parenting. On the other hand his mother was gentle and often indulged in Salvador’s extraordinary behaviors. Also Salvador’s mother was a faithful catholic while his father was atheist, the combo definitely played a role in Salvador’s views on faith.…
He spent a large majority of time teaching himself how to paint, and soon enough moved to Paris after threats were made financially against van Gogh by his family. There in Paris, Vincent van Gogh found a new way of life. He learned…
1940’s Art “To us, art is an adventure into an unknown world of the imagination which is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense. There is no such thing as a good painting about nothing. We assert that the subject is critical. ”(Campbell)…
He taught himself classic technique through copying lessons from a standard academic treatise on drawing. He stopped when he felt he could draw like the masters, and began to draw with his own visions and style. After starting his art career, he attended a school in Brussels where he learned about rudiments of perspective and anatomy. He as well studied at the academic art school at The Hague (Trachtman…
Second largest art museum in the United States, the Art Institute of Chicago began its day in 1866 as a public gallery and art school. Known for its signature lion statues, the museum was very busy during weekend, making it difficult for us to take picture. The original building was destroyed in Great Chicago Fire and left mismanaged for many years until reconstruction in 1925.…
He made a lot of connections due to his interest and involvement in a small group of artists whom which included filmmaker and Luis Bunuel and poet Federico Garcia Lorca. The scene exposed Dali to many different styles and some of the greatest minds of the time such as Einstein and Stravinsky. He was later expelled from the San Fernando art school after he insulted his professor during his final examination before graduation. After his days at San Fernando were over, Dali took an enlightening trip to Paris where he met the famous cubist artistPablo Picasso.…
( "Francisco De Goya." Bio.com) Francisco was the son of a guilder, in his early youth he spent most of his time in Saragossa, Spain. He began doing his first paintings at the tender age of 14. His teacher Jose Luzan Martinez was inspirational to Goya although at first he learned by imitating other artists and great masters such as Velazquez and…
According to McNeese & Picasso, Pablo Picasso is known as an influential artist and painter, also his work became more popular and recognized in the 20th century as it was the peek of his career. Picasso was born in Spain in a town known as Malaga in October 1881. He was the first born child and his father was an artist, a museum curator, as well as a professor of fine arts at the time. Pablo Picasso was taught fine arts by his father for a year before he proceeded to an Art Academy for another year. He later moved to Paris in 1901 as a preferred destination to practice and learn new styles and art forms.…
"Science and Charity" (1896). He noticed he won't progress in Madrid because he left his studies and no one in the school can help him, he decides to go back to Barcelona. His career begins when he decides to travel to France in 1900, when it that times France was known as the art capital in Europe. During the five first months of 1901, he lived in Madrid. In 1905 he became one of the favorites of the American art collectors Leo and Gertrude Stein.…
On October 25th, 1881, Pablo Picasso was born in Magala, Spain. The world of art was forever changed that day. From paintings to poetry, you name it; Picasso has probably dabbled in it. In his early life, Picasso was raised Catholic, but would convert to atheism as an adult.…
Marcel Duchamp, a revolutionary twentieth century artist, once said, “Alchemy is a kind of philosophy, a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding” (Duchamp). This quote is the simplest definition of alchemy. Alchemy is a concept that explains what is going on around us. More importantly, it provides an explanation for what we have always been told to believe. It dates back as far as the Renaissance period, and while similar to sciences, was not at first considered a science due to its mystical aspects.…
Picasso led more of a Bohemian lifestyle where he did not have much money, dressed in long dresses, and wore his hair long. At the age of nineteen, he finally moved to Paris after many visits there over the years because it was the most modernized city at the time.. The group of people he started hanging with were artists and poets, and many influenced his works and motivation over the years. Picasso’s spirit and ambition rose very quickly. He had several women in his lifetime that were much younger than he but only married two of them.…
My artist is Salvador Dali His paintings a lot of times are compared to the horror genre. The painting that inspired me is The Temptation of Saint Anthony, 1946 I really like this piece because of the oversized proportions and the amount of detail in the painting the more you observe it the more things you notice and wonder, like the giant elephants lead by the giant horse that inspired him to do certain things. Other things I like is the naked person holding the cross with a halo on his head, He could be trying to keep them away or he could be repenting maybe even praising them. On the ground in front of him you can see a skull More little details I like are what i assume are the normal size people under the elephants.…
Living Still Life, painted by Salvador Dali in 1956, is an oil on canvas painting created to express the dynamic combination and complexity of stillness and motion that goes almost unnoticed every day. Viewers are drawn in to observe the masterpiece initially by the bright red, mellow blue, and vibrant red colors used in the scenic view painted before them. In essence, the painting is of a medium length rectangular, wooden table partially extending from a room inside of an apartment or condo, out onto a balcony with cast iron railings. The ocean and general warmth of the colors used adds a curious, yet inviting tone to the piece. There are many objects strategically positioned on top of and above the table which work together to create the busy, chaotic unity and balance that is ever present in the piece.…
Throughout this course I have gained more of an appreciation for artwork and the artists that create them. I have also gained an appreciation for the people that try to define what art is in general or more specifically what makes good art. We have read great thinkers and their philosophies on this, and the fact that even people of such great intelligence can disagree on the subject proves how challenging it can be. By reading the opinions of these great thinkers, and by discussing their thought with our class, I feel I am in a much better place as to define what makes good art myself. I define art as anything created by someone that inspires another to appreciation.…