Italy is often known as the birthplace of the Renaissance, a time of great achievement in all aspects of the Modern Age. Specifically the art during this time uniquely represented this era. In fact, Renaissance is majorly represented through its magnificent art. Architecture, sculpture and painting were the leading categories for all the Renaissance artists. The art during this time shared some similar qualities.…
In 1924 a movement called Surrealism was born. The movement followed an art form called Dadaism, which expressed art from a cynical more anti-art approach. But unlike Dadaism, Surrealism was more positive and approached art with fantasy and illogical imagery. A French writer named Andre Breton would be the founder of the movement. Breton had this to say about his movement: “I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality.”…
Compare and Contrast Essay The two works of art that I have chosen to compare and contrast had me worried at first. I wondered if there were enough things to compare between the two. However, after evaluating Tsukioka Yoshitoshi’s Samurai Attacks Woman and Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s self portrait, I have come to find that they share many things in common; from medium to colour, I will discuss the vast array of contrasts as well as similarities. It helps first to describe the two pieces. The first one that caught my eye while perusing through the database was Tsukioka’s, which was created during the Meiji period of Japan.…
Michelangelo was one of the leading figures of the Renaissance during the late 15th and the first half of the 16th century. He was primarily a sculptor, but he was very talented in paintings and poetry. His talents were so apparent, that he earned the attention and patronage of Lorenzo de Medici, the leader of the Florentine Republic. The background of Michelangelo’s early life would play a large role in his rise to becoming a famous Renaissance artist. A. Michelangelo a. Born to middle class family.…
The high Renaissance was a time period filled with art, such as, architecture, painting, and sculpting. It is arguably so that the main men leading the high Renaissance craze were Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo. Two rivals, two artists and two of the most important men in history. Both men had an enormous impact on the world as we know it. In fact Leonardo Da Vinci is also known as the classic Renaissance man, a man who has many trades, talents and skills.…
Later on, Cartier-Bresson traveled to Italy in 1960. There, he took a series of pictures, a very particular series that shows the people of the city of Naples, he particularly shot children and couples in the street. While on this trip, he capture a particular moment, the picture is name Naples, 1960. In the photograph, we can appreciate two lovers of the same sex, it looks like the man sitting on the chair works selling newspapers and magazines in the streets of Naples. On the other hand, the man in the suit seems like an upperclass worker, maybe he works close by the newspaper stand or perhaps, he walks by there on his way to work.…
Carlo Carrà was a metaphysical artist during the 1920’s and 30’s. Carlo was influenced by both Masaccio, the first great Italian painter during the Quattrocento period, and Giorgio Morandi, an associate of the regional Strapaese group. Masaccio’s influence can be seen in the sombre coloring in most of Carlo’s works. Specifically, this sombreness can be seen in Jolts of a Cab.…
In my view these writers fit together because they all were a part of a changing time and played a role in the development of the Renaissance. In the reading by Manuel Chrysoloras expresses his view both Rome and Constantinople. He compares both cities architecture and sculptors. During this time Italy began to prosper while the Byzantine empire was coming to a close. In the reading from Columbus he writes about his encounter after finding the islands and describing the people.…
The famous and iconic surrealist painter, Salvador Dalí was born on May 11, 1904, in Figueres, Spain. Ever since his skills were noticed at a young age, Dalí was encouraged to practice them which would eventually lead him to go on to study at an art academy in Madrid. In the 1920s, he went to Paris, France and started interacting with artists such as Picasso, Magritte and Miró; this would lead to Dalí's first Surrealist phase. During this phase, he creates one of his pieces that he is perhaps best known for, his 1931 painting of The Persistence of Memory, which showed melting clocks in a landscape setting. However, the rise of fascist leader Francisco Franco in Spain led to the artist's expulsion from the Surrealist movement; though, this didn't…
“My work feels like stands of my thoughts that have flown around the universe before coming back to materialize.” (Chiho Aoshima) This is the base for most of Aoshima’s creations, they are her thoughts mixed with the universe and the things around her. Aoshima is a pop graphic artist who was born in Tokyo, Japan. Influenced by anime and manga, she stands apart from others around her, through her exploration of the dark currents laying beneath Japanese pop imagery.…
From an exceptionally young age, Salvador Dali understood that he was different from other people. An extremely shy young boy – insecure to a point – he went out of his way to draw attention to himself, and when the attention arose, he reveled in it. From his early years until his death, Dali at home when he pushed a friend off of a cliff, to his years in art school when he flung himself down a flight of stairs, to his obsession with thinking he remembered being in the womb and being birthed, to his determination in perfecting his own hallucinatory images and fabricating memories that would later serve as inspiration for a countless number of his drawings, Salvador Dali remains an artist that will always be the focus of conversation and intrigue. Born in 1904, in Northeast Spain, Salvador Dali struggled with his identity. Although he was a spoiled child, he…
Dali was encouraged from a young age to pursue his interest art. He later went to study at an academy in Madrid. During the 1920s, Dali traveled to Paris, where he came into contact with artists like Pablo Picasso, Rene Magritte, and Joan Miro. Meeting these artists led to Dali’s first Surrealist phase. Dali’s most known painting is from 1931 called “The Persistence of Memory”, which depicted melted clocks in a background.…
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler was a German art historian. In his 1916 essay on The Rise of Cubism he illustrates the struggles and failures on how the Cubist movement was developed, as well as the eventual success of the Cubists and why they achieved it. At the turn of the twentieth century many artists were experimenting because they were dissatisfied with the limitations of traditional methods of creating art. They tried all sorts of approaches, however a young Pablo Picasso, unlike the rest of them, chose a new direction, focusing only on the form of the object he was creating.…
Even, Art dealers said that Chia was not producing masterpieces that others were at the time. Many of these concepts could have contributed to the decline in popularity of Chia artwork. Truth is, many artists were born in the 1940’s but Sandro Chia came with an interesting story to tell through the decades. He was born in 1946 in Florence, Italy and studied the arts at Istituto d’Arte and Accademia di Belle Arti where he graduated in 1969. Starting in the early 1980’s for two decades, he settled in New York.…
2 Introduction Alberto Giacometti created artwork that reflected the emotions and turbulent transition from surrealism to contemporary modern art. When one compares the themes of Giacometti’s sculpture to Robert Wallace’s poem, it is possible to clearly identify simple forms have a lot of subtle details. There are many aspects that influenced the artist and the writer to create new things. Firstly, Alberto Giacometti was heavily influenced by the surrealists of the 1920’s and later found his artistic expression and his early life influences. His choices in the materials used played a part in his art, which can be seen with the sculpture “Dog”.…