where she was raised there for most of her life. She was raised during a time where the country was granted their independence and was a just starting out as new nation. The economic status of the country was low because they had just come out of a war and was trying to rebuild. Her economic status was average middle class due to the fact that her mother worked as an university librarian and her father worked as a lecturer in the Chemistry department at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville,…
Sonia Delaunay and her husband Robert were at the forefront of style and artistic innovation. It was popular at the time, and continues to be to this day, to create art that does not depict the true nature of reality. As the trends of art were in full swing towards cubism, which tended to utilize a more muted color palette, the Delaunay’s wanted to bring back color in their works while still depicting geometric forms. The new movement used to describe the works of the Delaunay’s was called…
and scrawled his messages and art throughout the world as we know it! Now as far as we know Seuss has been only known as Dr. Seuss, but, in actuality his name is Theodore Seuss Geisel. On March 2, 1904 the soon to be great artist and writer was born. The promising Seuss was…
Figueres, Spain, Salvador started creating art at a young age. His parents encouraged him to peruse his artwork and even built him a studio at their home before leaving for college. Aways being able to peruse with his art, it prompted him to experiment with sculpture, printmaking, fashion, advertising, writing, and some filmmaking with Luis Bunuel and Alfred Hitchcock later on in his career. His paintings resemble a lot of classical and renaissance art, noticeable through his religious symbolism…
perceptions and views. There is a total of 1,550 wooden chairs which represents all the deaths of those in the Civil War in Columbia. Using everyday household item and taking in the position of an unnatural location gives the idea of emptiness and the sense that it doesn’t belong. This, overall, can represent the chaos and the absence due to the mass graves of those who went to war and are now anonymous to all in society. Salcedo is interested in the elements of the immense difference…
The word "modernism", derived from the Latin “modo”, to denote the main direction in the art of bourgeois society, the era of its decline. One more terms to express the same concept are "avant-garde", "avant-garde". The main objective of modernism is : the depth of penetration into the conscious and subconscious human transmission of the memory, perception of the features, including, as in "moments of being" refracted past, present and foreseeing the future. The basic techniques in the work of…
World War II posters helped to mobilize a nation. Inexpensive, accessible, and ever-present, the poster was an ideal agent for making victory the personal mission of every citizen. Government agencies, businesses, and private organizations issued an array of poster images, linking the military front with the home front and calling upon every American to boost production at work and at home. Deriving their appearance from the fine and commercial arts and expressing the needs and goals of the…
small village of Braunau Am Inn, in 1889(,Adolf Hitler Biography). He was given the talent of making wonderful pieces of art, but soon loses motivation to follow this passion after his mother dies, in December 21, 1907, and he fails to get into the Vienna Art School, in 1900. His life falls apart and he becomes homeless. After he hears about the loss of Germany in the first World War, he becomes interested in politics and the idea of “backstabbing”, and this idea was present in many incidents…
architecturally, Gropius founded a new movement that would change the face of arts and architecture to present day. With the help of artists and sculptors that, at the time, were labeled “outcasts,” he introduced an idea that focused on bridging the world of art with the real world. More specifically, art and industrial production. An important aspect to note is that the idea behind the Bauhaus wasn’t designed only for arts and architecture. Gropius wanted to create a new way of life for the…
great from their talents. There is no single talent when well used, cannot bring great returns to the individual.Most stars in the world have placed great work on their talents to reach where they are today. Major stars have talents in leadership, art, and athletics among others. Salvador Dali is one great painter over history that has shown surrealism through his artwork ‘the persistence of the memory.’ Surrealism was a cultural movement that started in the 1920s. Salvador Dali was born in 1931…