André Le Nôtre

For my research assignment, I chose Salvador Dali, a famous artist known for surrealism. I decided to research Salvador Dali due to his strong influence in paradoxical art; this was a form of art that contradicted and complexed itself with concepts. Since, many of Dali's art pieces were paradoxical, I found myself admiring all of his art as well as the personality behind his pieces. With that being said, I thought it was intersting that Dali contradicted all of his work, but still maintained the…

Surrealism is an art movement that began in the early 1920s in Paris, France. The effect it had on art all around the world is still very much alive today. There were many famous surrealism artists during the movement. Also, some of the most famous works that are still admired today were created during the surrealism art movement. Surrealism is an art movement that stemmed out of the movement known as Dada, which was a movement meant to deliberately defy reason and logic when it came to…

As a result, from this initial modern revolution in painting initiated by Picasso, other artists began to explore new ideas and visions of their own. One of the most outrageous and psychologically obtuse painters of the Twentieth Century was Salvador Dali. His works revolutionized a genre of painting referred to as Surrealism. Summarily defined as an abstract representation of true to life images placed in unconventional settings, as if the person viewing it was in a dream like state. When…

Salvadore Dali Biography Flamboyant, mischievous, undeniable skills of artistry, and a key factor of the surrealism movement. He was born May 11th, 1904 in Figueres Catalonia, Spain. He enrolled in different art schools, where he experimented with different types of art styles. He later travelled and made connections with other artists which, in turn, sparked his interest in the psychoanalytic methods of surrealism. Salvador Dali lived with his mother, father, brother, and sister. They were a…

Born in the late 1910s and early 1920’s, artists sought out to release their unrestrained imagination of the subconscious through experimenting with a new form of expression called automatism that in turn led to the birth of the surrealist movement. Martinez-Conde et al state that the movement blurred the line between the real and imagined which was most evident in the works of Salvador Dali (2015). Salvador Dali is a surrealist artist whose name became synonymous to the word surrealism. Dali’s…

has a dream of going to the University of Notre Dame, and playing on the football team. Everyone tells him that he can’t do it. He gets a job at a steel mill, where his best friend, Pete, died in an explosion. He then goes over to South Bend, and talks to a priest. The priest helps him get enrolled into Holy Cross College. Holy Cross College is a junior college, located near Notre Dame. If he got good grades, he hoped he could get into Notre Dame. He secretly got onto the football…

I think that my dorm room is a representation of my front-stage behavior. This is the case because although it is my room, I share it with a friend, and although it is our room, we often have other people in it with us. Dorm rooms are a space in which friends can gather for a party, to study together, or even to watch this week’s episode of Grey’s Anatomy. It is more of a public space than a private space in which I can be alone. I keep my dorm room in a manner in which I would publically…

Frank actually saw Rudy’s dream come true on the field. His brothers would always say that Rudy was too small or too weak to play football for Notre Dame, but in the end Rudy did play for Notre Dame. Then there was Rudy’s father who at one point told his son that the people in their family weren’t meant to go to college that they were meant to work and that Notre Dame was meant for people who were rich, and that their family…

Kate Keating #3 Ms. McCully English 12/13/14 Esmeralda vs. Lucie Manette Have you ever felt bad for a person that is made fun of just for being different? Esmeralda felt bad for Quasimodo in Hunch Back Of Notre Dame. Quasimodo was the same as everyone else, but people treated him like he was dirt just because he looked different and didn’t look like how the world expects us too. People thought Quasimodo had an ugly face and a hump on his back. They crowned him “king of fools”. When he snuck…

Two Dreamers Strive to Accomplish Their Dreams “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams” (“Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes”). Shawn and Rudy were both big dreamers who were determined to make their dream come true. Shawn Grim was a man living in the Appalachian mountains while Rudy was living in Illinois. Shawn Grim and Rudy Ruettiger were two young men trying to achieve their dreams to go to college and play football but each on their own journey in different ways. Shawn…