Salvador Dalí

Diego Velazquez was born in the 1600’s, and was a renowned painter of the Baroque period. Known most famously for his painting, Las Meninas, Velazquez inspired and was emulated by numerous artists. Beginning in 1611, for six years he apprenticed at the hand of Francisco Pacheco, acquiring skills on how to paint with an idealized style. However, after his apprenticeship, Velazquez shifted techniques to paint with a more realistic manner. Following his first commission by the royal family of…

substituted by the surrealist group, who were more intrigued by a materialist investigation of desire and irrational knowledge, and a de-alienated reconfiguring of the object world. Buñuel and Salvador Dali show a melding of the two in Un Chien Andalou, a film that toys with the corruption of reality, time, and symbolism. Dali believed that nature, including human nature, is itself irrational and surreal,…

The modernist era of art began in the late 19th century and last until around the middle of the 20th century. Some of the important artists of this time were Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, and Salvador Dalí. Postmodernism began in the 1960s, however the term was not predominantly applied to the movement until the 1970’s mainly with architecture, but when it comes to paintings and other such art the term did not come to fruition until the mid 1980s. Some of the important artists of this movement…

We can determine what made modern art “back then” by analyzing artists such as Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali. Henri Matisse’s “The Joy of Life (Le Bonheur de Vivre)” was created during Fauvism period. This work of art is considered to be modern because of it’s strong colors. Matisse like to use colors that where pure, and soft-wavy shape. “Matisse used pure colors and the white of exposed canvas to create a light-filled atmosphere in his Fauve paintings. Rather than using…

Would you classify Guernica as Expressionism, Cubism, Dada, or Surrealism? Explain your answer by using specific visual and stylistic references. Guernica has fascinated the world since its inception in 1937, many were struck by the use of the monochromatic color scheme and the style of the painting. Herein I shall explore the four styles and attempt my interpretation of Guernica. Dada was a movement that did constitute an actual style, but instead focused on other aspects such as group…

During the late 19th century, the world, clasped by the budding periods of industrial modernization, would soon become engulfed by the crest of art’s vigorous innovations and revolutionized by the profound and splendid magnificence of what modern civilization shall later name, the Pictorialism Movement. As moderately hinted in its title, the Pictorialism Movement had been a crusade for the endorsing of photography. The campaign advocated for a method of artwork that stressed the prestige of not…

The twentieth century was an incredible period for the development of psychology. This era was full of many promotions in the area of psychology. These advances in turn influenced artists and writers in the art and literary community. Psychological progressions in the area of dreams and the subconscious inspired the surrealist movement that came about during this time. Literature also felt the influence of the newly discovered deeper mind and often alluded to, or symbolized, new age theories in…

paintings, all depicting Faust, were made by three completely individual artists. One from the seventeenth century was painted by Rembrandt, another painted by Eugene Delacroix in the 19th century, and a third during the 20th century by the artist Salvador Dali. Now,…

According to the Oxford Dictionaries, utopia is an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. The word was coined in Greek by Sir Thomas More for his book entitled Utopia published in 1516. A Utopian society is perfect society that undergoes continual improvement to achieve the highest aggregate satisfaction level for the most people, it strives for not just a better world but a perfect world. In Utopia, one size does not fit all, as everyone has different needs and…

There are various examples of the Golden Ratio found in da Vinci’s The Last Supper, which was created between 1494 and 1498 and is located at the Dominican convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy. The PhiMatrix software has been used to show the various occurences of the Golden Ratio in da Vinci’s The Last Supper: In yellow, the ratio of the depth of the table to the space shown below the table corresponds to the proportions of the Golden Ratio. Additionally, the rectangle in the…