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Fruit That Grows Fruit That Grows In Man Arp
535 wordsArt is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb, once commented Jean Arp -- a remarkable twentieth-century sculptor, painter and poet associated with and a forefather of the Dada and Surrealist movements. The avant-garde artist was born on September 16, 1887 in Strasbourg, France, where he studied at the Ecole des Arts et Mtiers. In 1905, he transferred to the Weimar Academy and then to Paris at the Academic Julian in 1908, and subsequent to graduation ...
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825 wordsPaul Klee is a famous Surrealist painter, regarded by the Nazis as a degenerate artist. Born on December 18, 1879, in Munchenbuchsee near Bern, Switzerland, Klee enters the most prestigious art school in Germany, the Munich Academy, at the age of 21. Shortly thereafter, he moves to Munich and travels throughout Europe studying impressionist artwork and incorporating color into his work far more than in previous years. In 1910 he gets his own private exhibition in Bern, and from this point on he ...
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Paris In 1921 Australian Photographer Man
523 words(1890 - 1976), Man Ray was born in Philadelphia, American photographer, and leading figure in the artistic avant-garde in Paris of the 1920 s. He studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City, and held his first one-man show of paintings in 1912. With his friend, the French painter Marcel Duchamp, he helped to found the New York City Dada group in 1917. Under Duchamp's influence, he began to work with new materials and techniques, for example, painting with an airbrush on glass and ...
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Paint On Canvas Paint With The Eye Dali
440 wordsFrom the real to the surreal, Salvador Dali embodied it all. Once he was satisfied with his abilities to mimic what he saw in the world, he began to play with objects and space. He comprehended, perfected, and finally transcended realism, and his works became much more than paint on canvas. At the youthful age of fourteen, his charcoal drawings patterned techniques that Claude Monet is so renown for using. Dali was capable of portraying Monet's stylistic texture in a texture-less medium. By the ...
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Suppose To Take Place Kafka The Trial Herr
1,213 words... radical Nature of the Absurd Presented in Kafka's The Trial As I read through Kafka's The Trial I was struck with a fusion of frustration, ubiquity, and the overt absurdity of the story at hand. The most surprising aspect of this conglomeration of feelings was that beyond my overriding reaction of confusion there was and undeniable sense of understanding. As I explored this paradoxical juxtaposition ing I came to realize that my relation to this seemingly nonsensical accumulation of conflict...
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The Life And Art Of Salvador Dali
554 wordsSalvador Dali's life and art were very closely related. Everything in his life was reflected in his art. All the major changes in his works and styles represented important turning points for him. When Dali was younger, he experimented with different styles. The first style he used was soft, blurry and seemed a little bit out of focus, although his use shadowing was well from the beginning. Dali's early works were not very impressive, but he was very talented and dedicated to his art work. Surre...
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989 wordsPicasso was arguably the most influential artist of the twentieth century. He had some degree of influence in all styles of painting which were used during his time, and was known and respected by almost every art enthusiast on the face of the planet. Pablo Picasso, born Pablo Ruiz y Black, came into the world on the 25 th of October 1881 in the southern Spanish town of Malaga. Pablo was an artist from early in his life he was a child prodigy. He began his career as a classical painter. He paint...
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Reason For Living Salvador Dali
1,201 wordsGenius or madman? Salvador Dali has been referred to as both throughout the course of his seventy-eight-year career. One who has seen any of his artwork will uncertainly question the sanity of Salvador Dali. Dali is best known for his surrealist works and many consider him the most brilliant Surrealist of his time. But to understand the enigma that is Salvador Dali, one must take a look back into his childhood, his family, and his inspirations. Salvador Dali was born in Figueras, Spain to father...
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1,680 wordsMarcel Duchamp Nude Descending Staircase 1912 Marcel Duchamp, born 1887 and died in 1968, was a modernist artist. His painting, Nude Descending Staircase No. 2 was painted in 1912 using oil on canvas with a dimension of 58 x 35 inches in size. It was first exhibited at the New York Armory Show in 1913, where it aroused great controversy, and is now kept at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the Louise and Walter Arsenberg collection. Duchamp was influenced by the increasing trend of artists disco...
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Rite Of Spring Considered To Be One
1,381 wordsStravinsky Stravinsky is considered to be one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century. He introduced two of the first major suggestions of contemporary music. He is thought of as somewhat revolutionary because of the clamorous reception of his new style. Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky was born on June 17, 1882. His birthplace is Oranienbaum, Russia, which is now Lomonosov. His father was the leading bass singer at the Imperial Opera House in Saint Petersburg. Although he came from a very ...
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Deliberate Alienation Surrealism And Magical Realism
1,425 words... f reality. He needs to show them just how extraordinary their ordinary world is. The collection's first story, "Tln, Urban, Orbis Tertius, " accomplishes this expertly. Borges spends most of the story establishing an elaborate fantasy world whose commonly held philosophical truths are incongruent with our own. "The nations of that planet [Tln] are congenitally idealist. Their language, with its derivatives -- religion, literature, and metaphysics -- presupposes idealism. For them, the world ...
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President John F Kennedy American Popular Culture
1,670 wordsComing Home from Vietnam American involvement in Vietnam began in the mid- 1950 s, as the French, defeated on the battlefield by the communist Viet Minh, began to withdraw all military forces out of their former colony. Fearing a vacuum that the communists might soon fill, the United States helped establish the Republic of Vietnam in the southern half of the country. In the face of North Vietnam's determination to unite all of Vietnam under its control, a series of U. S. administrations provided...
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20 Th Century Past Century
1,045 wordsThe contemporary commercial art and design of today has no doubt been created through the heavy influences of 20 th century art. Most corporations who advertise on a large scale look back to the most influential art of the past century when creating their ads. Its almost impossible to walk the city streets without being bombarded by billboards with crafty designs and catchy phrases. With a little research though, its fairly easy to find that the basis of this commercial art can be found in the a...
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Picasso And Braque Analytical Cubism
1,097 wordsBefore the twentieth century, art was recognized as an imitation of nature. Paintings and portraits were made to look as realistic and three-dimensional as possible, as if seen through a window. Artists were painting in a flamboyant style. French post impressionist Paul C? zanne's flattened still lives, and African sculptures gained in popularity in Western Europe when artists went looking for a new way of showing their ideas and expressing their views. In 1907 Pablo Picasso created the painting...
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20 Th Century Salvador Dali
410 wordsSalvador Dali was Dali DALI Salvador Dali was born on May 11, 1904. He was a leader in the new movement of art in the early 20 th century called Surrealism. In 1921 Dali studied at the San Fernando Acadamy of Fine Arts in Madrid. Here he was able to associate and learn from such Spanish modernists as Federico Garcia Lorca, and Luis Bundel. He also was influenced by Italian futurists and the metaphysical paintings of Giorgio de Chirico. In his early works, however, Dali gave credit to his own Cat...
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Spanish Civil War Acute
971 wordsThe Joan Miro Working Thesis: The Catalan struggle and Spanish Civil War greatly influenced Joan Mir&o acute; ? s art; Mir&o acute; ? s techniques of forceful strokes with paint and ceramics enable Mir&o acute; to express his feelings and depict the Catalan people? s struggle through art. Surrealism in the 1920 s was defined as a fantastic arrangement of materials that influenced Mir&o acute; , due to the fact that he was one of the most original and sympathetic artists during the Surrealism per...
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963 wordsSalvador Dali: Influences Perhaps one of the worlds greatest artists is the hispanic artist Salvador Dali. He won many awards and became very successful in his work as an artist. Mr. Dali even has his own art museum right here in St. Petersburg. During his childhood and thereafter, during the Depression, Salvador Dali's artwork and personality were influenced by many different people and entities. Dali's personal life exhibited to his contemporaries and those who enjoyed his works after his life...
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Persistence Of Memory Salvador Dali
999 wordsAs a young man, Dali attended the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. Early recognition of Dali's talent came with his first one-man show, held in Barcelona in 1925. He recieved international fame when three of his paintings were shown in the third annual Carnegie International Exhibition in Pittsburgh in 1928. In a way, this was was his prime starting block. After this, Dali went to Paris the following year, again holding a one-man show, and at this point Dali joined the Paris Surreali...
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Kafka Used Surrealism Similarities And Differences Stories
704 wordsTwo of Kafka's most predominate works, The Trial and The Metamorphosis, are very similar in many aspects, yet also have unique differences. Many of these similarities and differences are very obvious, but also there are subtle comparisons that the reader might not pick up while reading. One would think, after reading both stories, that the differences outweigh the similarities, but that is not entirely true. Not only should the reader view the style of the writing when comparing the two, but als...
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