Pablo Escobar

Isabel Allende, in her memoir My Invented Country, connotes her experience as an Immigrant around the world before settling in America with feelings of misery and emptiness. She recalls her experience escaping her homeland and traveling as the step-daughter of a diplomat as incredibly lonely without a defined sense of direction. Allende experiences reveries of Chile that nip at her heels and cause her to crave home. She rejects the racism of the society and experiences difficulty in assimilating…

From an exceptionally young age, Salvador Dali understood that he was different from other people. An extremely shy young boy, he went out of his way to draw attention to himself, and when the attention arose, he reveled in it. From his early years 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…

From a very 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…

Salvador Dali Born in May 11, 1904 in Figures, Spain, Salvador Dali eccentric nature and talent for self promotion made him the most famous representative of the surrealist movement and one of the most recognized artists in the world. At the age of six-teen Dali’s mother passed away having a profound effect on him because in his mind there were two tragedies, the lost of his beloved mother and the fear that one day she would be forgotten when he vowed to never be forgotten. In 1922, Dali moved…

A Cubist Essay Historical time period (What was going on during this time?, Why might this have affected Cubism’s birth?) The term "cubism" was first used by the “French critic Louis Vauxcelles in his review of a 1908 exhibition of paintings by Georges Braques” (Carlson). Cubism is when an artist abandons perspective and makes artwork out of simple geometric shapes and interlocking planes, which leads to an unrealistic-looking painting with a blended foreground and background. Cubism was…

Salvador Dali was one of the most famous unusual artists of the 20th century, he is known as a surrealistic, these paintings involved mysterious or familiar objects, Whatever he painted came right out of his dreams. Salvador Dali was born in Figueres ,Spain of 1904, but just before he was born his brother died, so his parents named him Salvador after his brother. When Salvador was growing up he was confused, because he acted different from other children. Salvador Dali began painting in 1911, he…

The History of 'Guernica' begins in January 1937, when the Government of the Republic orders Picasso a large square of 11x4 meters for the Spanish pavilion of the Universal Exhibition to be held that year in Paris. However, a few days before, on April 26, the Basque town of Gernika had been bombed and devastated by the German Condor Legion. The subject runs by word of mouth among the Spanish in Paris and the French press also echoes this. All the experts agree that the popular comments and the…

According to McNeese & Picasso, Pablo Picasso is known as an influential artist and painter, also his work became more popular and recognized in the 20th century as it was the peek of his career. Picasso was born in Spain in a town known as Malaga in October 1881. He was the first born child and his father was an artist, a museum curator, as well as a professor of fine arts at the time. Pablo Picasso was taught fine arts by his father for a year before he proceeded to an Art Academy for another…

Salvador Dali was an artist born on May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Spain. He was the third Salvador Dali after his father and brother, who died 9 months before Dali's own birth due to meningitis. Dali lived in the shadow of his brother all of his life. This had a great impact on his artwork. A lot of his works were an expression of how he felt towards his brother. These works included deterioration, degeneration, and other disturbing images. Dali began painting at the age of 10 and some of his more…

Art is the key to the expression of the artist’s thoughts and their feelings. The strokes of the brush, the depth, and intent in the strokes have a message to share with the viewer. It is for this that the aim of this paper is to look at Pablo Picasso’s 1937 painting Guernica. Upon first glance, the painting is filled with straight lines that are both horizontal and vertical. These are used in the creation of scenarios where everything seems to be in symmetry. Furthermore, the painting seems to…