Andres Serrano

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…

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…

the key issues related to the Serrano v. Priest decision. What did the court decide? What action did the State take following the court’s decision? In 1968 a class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of Mr. Serrano in the Superior Courts of Los Angeles. Serrano claimed the funding system for California schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, as well as the Equal Protection clause in the California Constitution. At the time of the Serrano case, per pupil spending…

A Little Chaos The film A Little Chaos is about a woman named Madame DaBarra who interviews for a job to help construct plans for Versailles. Madame DaBarra makes a living for herself, for she is a widow. Her husband and daughter died in a carriage accident. In the beginning of the movie, Madame Dabarra travels to be interviewed by Master Le Notre. During the interview Le Notre declines her plans and says they have no order. After the meeting Le Notre looks more at Madame DaBarra's plans and…

The Palace of Versailles is an former royal residence located 10 miles southwest of Paris in the city of Versailles. The palace was built on May 6,1682 (www.livescience.com/38903-palace-of-versailles-facts-history.html). The original residence was primarily a hunting lodge and private retreat for Louis XIII and his family (http://www.travelandleisure.com). Now you can visit the palace in Paris and see all the beautiful rooms and the history behind the palace. The palace and all the rooms in the…

Louis XIV ordered André le Nôtre to build the gardens years before the rebuilding of the château itself, and the park and the gardens truly disclose the significance of the palace, the court, and the nature of absolutism. Le Nôtre erected more than 50 fountains and hundreds of sculptures, and there are overall 365 hectares of gardens. Louis XIV embedded his royal authority in the aesthetic of the royal gardens, and he made it both material manifestations and symbolic legitimations of his divine,…

Historical concepts and historians’ ideas of modernity each show varied ways of how, when, where and why the period that is now labeled “Modernity” came to be, with some, especially historical writings pre-1990s, holding the more Eurocentric outlook that modernity can be characterised as a ‘product of Europe’. Historians such as Prasenjit Duara, Michael Adas, Antoine-Nicolas de Condorcet, C. Delisle Burns and Edward B. Taylor hold this idea of modernity coming from Europe through means such as…

Fancy Title In his 1963 essay, “Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem,” philosopher Erich Fromm argues that disobedience to authority started human history and blind obedience may cause its destruction. Fromm’s view on obedience to authority is that when we obey authority, even when it goes against our own reasoning and morals, then that obedience is cowardly and destructive while any act affirming individual will and autonomy is an act of freedom. Humanity could easily destroy…

When it comes to the topic of laws, most of us will readily agree that breaking the laws is unjust. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of if there is ever a time when a law can acceptably be broken. Whereas some are convinced that laws should never be broken, others maintain that there are some instances where laws should be broken. Socrates and Antigone would agree with the statement that disobeying laws is never the answer. Likewise, I have always believed that…