Cubism

Salvador Dali is one of the most famous surrealism artists of the twentieth century. Born on May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Spain, Salvador started creating art at a young age. His parents encouraged him to peruse his artwork and even built him a studio at their home before leaving for college. Aways being able to peruse with his art, it prompted him to experiment with sculpture, printmaking, fashion, advertising, writing, and some filmmaking with Luis Bunuel and Alfred Hitchcock later on in his…

before the Industrial Revolution. This meant that with the changes occurring in society, we were required to adapt and be open minded about the new ‘style’ that was being developed. Modernism has been seen to coexist during other movements such as Cubism, Fauvism, Constructivism, De Stijl and Dada where many artists and designers wanted to reject the old methods of art. However; whilst coexisting with these movements, it wasn’t until the 1960s that the modern version of art was widely accepted…

The period of time from 1700 to 1900 in European and American societies was a time of revolution. The industrial revolution changed the lives of many, especially social and economic changes. This period of time is also known as the Enlightenment, or the Age of Reason. This is due to the thinkers of the time demanding reform of reason, faith, liberty, and equality. Furthermore, monarchies were overthrown and replaced with new ideas of government during this time period. This new government system…

Photography’s Effect on Art When I was a senior in high school, I was able to attend a technical school for the second half of my day each day to take photography classes. I had always been interested in photography, but without any real knowledge on composing, taking, or editing pictures, I was unable to pursue the interest. I was nervous at first, a lot of the students there were in their second year and many of them had part time jobs in industry. It took a lot of work, but I started to…

because they have lots of the modern paintings and architectural,plus they have the most famous paintings of the past artist. Which makes it a more interesting to go. Yes, The Art Institute has a lot of beautiful paintings such as abstract paintings,cubism, surrealism, post-impressionism and other different techniques. Also, looking at the pictures I could not can imagine that there is a lot of history on them but when i started to look up and made some research I found a lot of information.…

against the war and destruction that had happened years before. It started as a response to World War I and the nationalism that it is believed led to the war (Elza Adamowicz). It was influenced by other avant-garde movements such as Expressionism, Cubism and Futurism (Craft). The name Dada is known to have been selected at random from a dictionary, this supports the nonsense of the whole idea of the movement, plus it is considered a being “baby talk” (Young). It was very diverse, starting from…

authors we have studied so far, Wright, Twain, Morrison, Johnson, Stein, Hemingway, Howells, Chesnutt and Crane and blends them all into his written invention. He uses the local color story and vernacular with his character’s speech and actions. He uses cubism in his narrative which seems to always elude his actual point, leaving his objective just beyond the reader’s grasp. He depicts realism and naturalism when he paints the picture of incest in Chapter 2. He also uses Weldon’s strategy of…

Diego Rivera was born in Guanajuato Mexico and grew up there until his family moved to Mexico City in 1893. Accepted into the San Carlos Academy at the age of ten, Rivera began his education and his career during a troubled time not only for Mexico but also within the world stage. Socialism and Marxism were on the rise and at the time his native Mexico was struggling to re-establish its own identity before Spanish influence. Diego Rivera’s art would contribute to the voice of the oppressed…

Jan Tschichold is from Leipzig Germany and is a typography and author. Born in 1902, Tschichold trained as a calligrapher and designer at the Leipzig Academy of Graphic Arts and Book Production from the ages of 17 and 19 then began freelancing as a lettering artist and designer. He was hired at a printing firm to draw page layouts for the typesetters. While working there, he visited a Bauhaus exhibition that drew him into the new Modernist movement. A couple of years later, Tschichold joined…

was growing up. Before he became famous for his works of art he was a teacher in primary education and while he was in his teaching years he practiced his painting, which consisted of mainly landscapes (2). Mondrian was influenced by the rise of Cubism and that is when he really started to produce all of his paintings using a grid-like format, painting squares and rectangles of mostly solid colors (1).Mondrian has…