Surrealism

The photographers Cecil Beaton and Annie Leibonvitz are both photographers that do portraits of others and do amazing work. They do portraits of famous people who were famous during there time or famous even now. Annie Leibonvitz was born October 2, 1949 in Waterbury Connecticut. She had six other siblings and her parents are Sam Leibovitz, an air force lieutenant and Marilyn Leibovitz, a modern dance instructor. In 1967, Leibovitz enrolled at the San Francisco Art Institute, where she was…

Interesting facts about Joseph Cornell 1. Joseph Cornell a New York native was an independent artist who began his career in the field of art in the early 1930’s and also continued into the late 1950’s. 2. Cornell worked with in several different types of works. He first began building his collage boxes; he built three dimensional sculptures, and he also painted murals using fresco styles of paints. 3. 4. He had four different styles, he used abstraction, he was a modernist, a surrealist and…

It explores dreamlike states and impossible ideas such as the pulling of a grand piano. The spacial continuity is disjointed through the involvement of various spaces of action such as when the woman opens the door from a living room onto a beach, which is entirely impossible and lacks reality. The characters consistently look off screen or directly into the camera, breaking the “fourth wall”, which subverted the golden rule of classical narrative and violated the illusion that the viewer was…

René Magritte was a Surrealist artist who has managed to retain his prominence with the simple, yet thought-provoking paintings that he created in his lifetime. By intertwining ordinary subjects with juxtapositions, Magritte was able to successfully force viewers into reconsidering what is often assumed. A well-known example of one of these artworks is The Lovers II which, as its title states, depicts two lovers – a man and a woman – kissing in the corner of a room. However, oddly enough, both…

Both Frida Kahlo and Pablo Picasso lived in the same era to create their artwork. Frida Kahlo and Pablo Picasso are both well-known artist. Both artist have their own style and they both created aesthetic qualities in their artwork. This essay will have information of the artist and the chosen artwork. I’ve chosen The Wounded Deer by Frida Kahlo and The Weeping Woman by Pablo Picasso. Frida Kahlo is a well-known Mexican Artist. She was born on July 6, 1907, in Coyocoán, Mexico City, Mexico. She…

Jesse Treece is an artist that creates various photomontage collages into unique compositions. He does this by incorporating distinct photographic scenes into one. “Long Walks On The Beach” is one good example in which he created a collage of two separate scenes in one picture. In this art work, the image portrays two people walking on the beach, but the sky appears to be an image of a planet. “Discoface” is another interesting collage of his because he created the composition out of three or…

The artist Xavier Prou was born in Boulogne-Billancourt in the western suburbs of Paris in 1951, some may know him as Blek Le Rat. He studied fine art and architecture at Beaux-Arts in Paris, then graduated in 1982. Before he graduated, Xavier Prou visited New York City and was fascinated with the city’s street art. He was one of the first people ever to do graffiti art in Paris. He is also known as "Father of stencil graffiti". One of his first stencils paintings were of rats all along the…

Luke Myers Professor Stoddard ARH 106 27 January 2015 Analysis of an original work of art Santiago El Grande by Salvador Dali Much can be said about about this painting. It is extraordinary, a masterwork, and one of Dali’s most famous. I was lucky enough to see it when it was at the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. Despite holding one of the largest collections of his works worldwide, I spent most of my time at the museum under Santiago. Under him, because everything about this work…

Salvador Dalí was born on May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Spain in the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains. He was born to Salvador Dalí Cusi and Felipa Domenech Ferres.(Biography) Dalí was the second born of three children. When Dalí turned four years old his parents enrolled him into a primary school in Figueres. In 1916 his parents enrolled him into Colegio de Hermanos Maristas. In 1921 Dali mother passed away after battling breast cancer. In 1922 Dali enrolled into Academia de San Fernando. In…

Modern art was born ugly. "It was Matisse who took the first step into the undiscovered land of the ugly," an American critic wrote, describing the 1910 Salon des Indépendents in Paris. "The drawing was crude past all belief, the colour was as atrocious as the subject. Had a new era of art begun?" Even Henri Matisse himself was sometimes shocked by his creations. According to his biographer Hilary Spurling, "His own paintings filled him with perturbation. At some point in 1901 or 1902 he slashed…