Art, a beautiful creature that reflects our world. We all have a same world, but different culture, different experience and different character cause us view the world completely different. Art is the thing that allow us express our emotion and dream, it gives us a chance to depict the world in our eyes through beautiful colors and unique shapes. Whether it is cubism or abstract, realism or impressionism, they are all part of the beauty. Those thoughts and styles make up some segment of the…
One of dreams has always been to earn a well-rounded college education. Like many college students I didn't know what I wanted to study, but at the time my interest was inclined into public services. I wasn't until I took a Western art survey course that I found true passion, and ever since then I knew that I wanted to be an art historian. For me the study of art history is more about personal and academic enriching, than a financial reward. I chose to be an art historian because I believe in is…
I have enjoyed art of many forms all of my life. Much of my spare time is spent drawing and experimenting with many different art techniques. I have also always loved animated movies such as films from Disney, Pixar and many other not as famously known companies. That is why I chose to major in Media Arts in college. With my passion for art, I would like to inspire others to create their own art or become more interested in art itself. My main goal is to create animated films. I want to be…
way and the reality expressed in their art did, in fact, inspire many other artists. Whether reality was seen as Surrealist, abstract-like, or a way to bring insignificant items to an obscure size, Claes Oldenburg, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Salvador Dali each effected a plethora of generations of artists. The most famous artist of the Surrealism movement was the Spaniard Salvador Dali. His paintings appear to be illogical and sexual. A unique part of Dali's art refers to events from his childhood…
to art when he was a child. After studying drawing at school as a child, Chagall moved to St. Petersburg, studying painting at the “Imperial Society for the Protection of the Arts”. It was at this time where Chagall released one of his earliest works “A Dead man” (1908) – depicting a geometric, expressive representation of mourning. Chagall’s Jewish identity was important to him and therefore influenced much of his artwork, having them depict religious traditions with styles of modernist art.…
Van Gogh's chaotic life has significant impact on his art style and paintings. During his life, he dedicated to become a successful artist but remained poor and unknown. His artworks could not be accepted by the public because people were not ready for such advance art style. The misfortune and the feeling of being unappreciated were the reasons for his depression. Van Gogh traveled from one place to another in order to find his belonging where his artworks can be understood. Until 1888, He…
created the famous painting known as The Persistence of Memory in 1931. He has overcome many obstacles at a young age, such as the loss of his mother when he was just 16 years old and that he and his father were never close. He later enrolls in an Arts Academy at Madrid, Dali dressed differently than others and had many eccentricity ideas that were both influenced by different famous artists at that time. Such as Metaphysics and Cubism, where he got the attention from his fellow classmates.…
The surrealist movement involved many dream-like scenes and devoid of normal rational controls usually found in other traditional art styles. Salvador Dali was a surrealist painter who began painting in the 1920’s. He played a very influential part in the surrealist movement and made some largely unique pieces art. There were many eccentric parts of Dali’s life that are shown through his paintings and through his personality. Salvador Dali greatly influenced the surrealist movement with his…
in the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery. There are many different types of artists. For example, animation art, calligraphy, computer art, drawings, folk art, mosaic art, and the list can go on and on. These three specific artists are all different in many ways. By the style of art they worked with, their background information, also, their own perspective of what art means to them. I was able to get inspired by Lost and In Love on a Train to the Coast, 1981, Floating Dream Sequence: Phoenix Fish,…
who is famous for his art in the 1930s-1960s. His most famous painting is ‘Nighthawks’. His life before painting, and his wife had a huge influence on the way his artwork. Hopper was introduced to art early in his life by his parents. They were both suppurative of his ‘artistic inclinations’ (The Art Story). As a teen, he would draw and build small, wooden boots. After his high school graduation in 1899, his parents talked him into studying illustration instead of fine art. He only spent a year…