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    November 21, 1898, the greatest surrealist painter to be was born in Lessines, Belgium. Rene Magritte was among the most important and well-known artists during the 20th century. He used very unique and intellectual techniques that not many understood but envied quite so. A vast majority of his paintings hold a mystery that is not the easiest to solve but is pleasing to the human eye. A painting of his that I personally saw at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas was an oil on canvas painting…

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    The Therapeusist Rene Magritte’s piece of art called The Therapeutist. This piece of art work was completed in 1937. To add in this artwork was created in the period of surrealism. The painting show an image of a rusty metal bird cage with a square wood plank on the outside of the cage door. The image also shows a dark orange-red blanket covering the back and sides of the cage, and a hat topping of the cage. Also the setting of the art work looks to be at the beach, with light blue…

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    Salvador Dali

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    Explain the significance of Salvador Dali’s surrealist paintings and techniques. Salvador Dali’s abstract paintings and techniques paved the way for the Surrealist art movement and as a result he is famed as one of the better known artists of the 20th century, especially in the United States. In his paintings Dali sought to create controversial sensations by implementing abstract concepts in a realistic manner onto a canvas. Dali delved deep into his subconscious to attain such perceptions of…

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    Oswaldo Guayasamín

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    museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism Miró initially went to business school as well as art school. He began his working career when he was a teenager as a clerk, although he abandoned the business world completely for art after suffering a nervous breakdown…

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    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…

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    René Magritte is a surrealist artist who has produced a reputation for his “clever and intriguing imagery” using basic designs and ordinary symbolism. Maybe viewers for the most part got caught by his The Son of Man painting, but may not know the painter by name. Rather would recognize the iconic painting and the repetitive topic and theme in another depiction by this artist. There's considerably more to know about Magritte and how the painting fits into his works as a whole. René François…

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    Introduction Magical realism captures the fantastic side of reality ,and it achieves its effect by mixing elements associated with realism and elements related with fantasy. These two worlds undergo a merging and become one. The term “magical realism” was first introduced by German art critic Franz Roh who considered magical realism an art category. Roh influenced many writers around the world ,and one of them is Lois Lowry. This paper will discuss some major characteristic of magical…

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    ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ is first published in 1928 as part of Yeast’s collection and it contains four stanzas. The poem ‘sailing to Byzantium’ is mainly about different between art and ordinary life. In the poem poet transform himself into work of art and he explores his thought and musing on how immortality art and the human spirit may converge. The poem ‘Sailing to Byzantium’in particular is its rich symbolism. Symbols are essentially words which are not merely connotative but also suggestive,…

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    This pair of artworks applies entirely different medias; however, both aim to achieve a sense of Scottish national identity. In Leviathan Elegy, there are three dimensional works combined together to construct an almost museum-like display in a manner of natural history exhibit, which can be seen in the labeling of the sculptural forms with single letter A from letter G in the top panel. These labels resemble that of the natural history museums that are used to define orthodox narrative or…

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    On April 7th, 1909 Joe Jones was born in St. Louis Missouri. In the year 1932, Jones painted an oil painting called “View of St. Louis”. The painting was done on canvas. The style of the art work was Midwest Regional Style or modern art. “View of St. Louis” is located in the American Art Collections at the St. Louis Art Museum. My goal in this paper is to recognize Joe Jones life in St. Louis during his adventures in art. People deserve to know more about a local legend in the art field. The…

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