Surrealism

Gogh and Picasso had a desire to bring out what they feel into their art, the desire to portray not what something was, but of how they individually saw it. It is as if it wasn't paint they put on the canvas, but their emotions, full with color and surrealism. Both of these prominent artists shaped the genres they helped develop, but influenced future generations, and will continue to do so till the end of…

In the ever expanding culture of music, certain musicians or even groups set a fundamental base for musicians or groups. Music of all sorts have always played a major role in society as a whole; certain musicians have impacted society so much to change the world at a certain point in time. The band, The Beatles, have been one of those certain musical groups that have served and continue to serve as a root for future musicians. They definitely impacted society and the world in a major way once…

Hesse Analysis Paper Kera Kojima UCOR 1410: Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud Dr. Kangas November 22, 2014 Since the beginning of the novel we see evidence of Haller’s suicidal tendencies, it is not caused by depression, but by his obsessive animosity of the bourgeois. He states, "For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of…

According to Kandinsky’s book Concerning the Spiritual in Art written in 1912, “music and art are the first and most sensitive spheres in which this spiritual revolution makes itself felt.” (Kandinsky, part 1, Section 3) Kandinsky correlates specific colors with definite emotions, such as blue, a heavenly color, while black is the color of grief that is hardly human (Fineberg, 94). Kandinsky links color and music in his book by saying, “Generally speaking, color is a power which directly…

Although the Nordic countries such as Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland are part of Europe, art from these countries developed at a unique and separate pace, while still influencing and being influenced by art from other parts of Europe. Different movements which started in other parts of Europe made their way to the Nordic countries, and techniques from the Nordic countries made their way to other parts of Europe. During the Middle Ages, vikings crossed the ocean from Denmark and…

places such as Tokyo, Sao Paulo, Barcelona, etc. Something that I love so much about his artwork is how he incorporates skateboarding into his artwork without the art being nothing but skulls, fire and other very cliche ideas. He uses abstraction and surrealism in a lot of his work, he also uses contour quite a bit and you can obviously tell. He also uses the experiences from all his trips to inspire his artwork. He especially likes to create zines. One of his famous pieces is Artistik Merit, in…

Freud dreams: In ancient times, dreams were believed to be gifts from the gods in which glimpses to the future and life direction were given. Freud preferred to look at dreams with a more scientific base. He believed dreams were the unconscious leaking the repressed desires of the dreamer. As a child dreamer, a wish fulfilment would be very clear such as eating a cookie, this rarely required interpretation. Adults, being more complex, required a sensitive exploration by the dreamer and…

which he developed independently for 10 years. His art primarily consists of his trademark black-and-white photographs. His main inspiration is from his parents who he recalls “opened my eyes to the direction of art”. Spirituality, nature and surrealism are major themes for Sauso in his work. Some of the pieces displayed involve…

Contemporary world History Christina Cagol EXAM 1 September 8, 2014 1. Pablo Picasso and George Braque founded cubism in the early 20th century in Paris. It was an artwork to be considered as the first radical approach in expressing visual reality. According to Cubist, any perception of an object was a composite of simultaneous and different perspectives. Cubism tries to help one understand the world around them in a different way by changing their perspective on a certain subject.…

Since the very beginnings of the tale of Faust the story has been incredibly open to artistic interpretation. The story of Faust can be seen as far back as the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and from that point onward the story has taken on an innumerable amount of differing thoughts and interpretations. However, in observation of three separate paintings from three completely different time periods one can see how the three paintings share very similar aspects. These three paintings, all…