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    us/classes/social_science/Latin_America/Frida%20Kahlo/ARt.html. Tony Cragg 2008‚ Sculpture‚ viewed 14 August‚ 2008‚ http://www.sculpture.org.uk/biography/TonyCragg/. Tony New Sculptures 2008‚ Artmag‚ viewed 14 August‚ 2008‚ http://www.artmag.com/museums/a_suede/malmo/cragg.html. Surrealism 2008‚ Ask Art‚ viewed 20 August‚ 2008‚ http://www.askart.com/AskART/interest/base_essay.aspx?id=97&glossary=1&pg=style Margaret Olley & Donald Friend 2006‚ Griffith‚ viewed 14 August‚ 2008‚ http://www.griffith.edu.au/centre/artworks/pdf/content_olleyresource

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    body image and how people perceive different body shapes. Lucian Freud was one of the best known British artists‚ who started painting nudes from the 1950’s. The art movement Freud belonged to was mainly realism‚ occasionally experimenting with surrealism. To start off with Freud mainly used oil paints applying them to the canvas with sable brushes. In the early 1950’s he spent a weekend with the painter Graham Sutherland and his family. He also met Francis Bacon‚ who he soon became close friends

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    Belvedere By M. C. Escher

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    M.C. Escher’s Belvedere made in May 1958 is a unique and complex lithograph which draws heavily from surrealism and the surrealist movement of the early 20th century. It delivers a deep and complex view of architectural structures‚ which are puzzling to the eye. Surrealism began in the early 1920’s. It was an art style which existed to promote the painting of works which blurred lines between fantasy and actuality or rather dreams and reality. This style contrasted some earlier styles which were

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    "The Vision of Hell (1962) is a highly sophisticated painting that juxtaposes Salvador Dali’s earlier style‚ Surrealism‚ (for which he was most famous) with a more classical style of religious mysticism which he developed later in life. Most critics believe that Dali’s greatest works were those done during his Surrealistic period‚ (before the 1940’s). It was then that Dali‚ greatly influenced by Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams tried to enter the subconscious world while he was painting‚ in order

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    Salvador Dali The Burning Giraffe 1. Structural Frame In Paris in the mid 1920’s surrealism became the new art movement and was widespread and lasting. The movement was characterised by pictures that contained detailed‚ strange and unnerving objects with dream like character. The art has a visually striking‚ controversial and bizarre quality‚ which was the result of the rejected ‘need’ for rational thought and behaviour. Salvador Dali described the art as ‘’hand painted dream photographs’’

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    Los Dos Fridas

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    The two Fridas or Los Dos Fridas was painted by Frida Kahlo in 1939 during the movement know as surrealism (Stokstad 1079). Kahlo ’s self-portrait reflects her emotions within her mind and body. It reflects the emotions that she truly feels. Frida does this in a way that others would interoperate as stuff of dreams and nightmares. It is how others see her work that makes it surrealism. Frida writes‚ "I never painted dreams I painted my own reality" (Stokstad 1079). Frida Kahlo did the surrealist

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    known for his striking and bizarre images. Dali employed extensive symbolism in his works‚ the most often employed being elephants‚ eggs and watches. His painting‚ ‘Rose meditative’‚ done during 1958‚ is a rare deviation from his favorite theme of surrealism. This is an oil-on-canvas painting‚ measuring 36 cm * 28 cm. The single rose without stem‚ suspended in air‚ is suggestive of contemplative meditation. Description A single rose‚ in brilliant red color‚ without its stem‚ is seen suspended in mid-air

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    I have selected a painting to examine the style‚ medium‚ and the use of the visual elements and design principles as noted above. In Picasso’s “Girl before a Mirror” the canvas portrays a young and beautiful girl in the act of evaluating herself in an oval mirror which reflects her likeness in a distorted way. The mirror lengthens her nose while curbing her check and jaw. Her face is now a chalky lilac tone‚ the blush on the check into an orange shaped tear drop. Her eye’s shape are different and

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    Salvadore Dali Salvadore Dali was born May 11‚1904‚ in Figueres‚ Spain. He began producing sophisticated drawings at an early age and both of his parents supported his artistic talents. In 1922 he went on to study at Academia de San Fernando‚ an academy in Madrid. Dali went to Paris in the 1920’s and began associating with Picasso‚ Magritte and Miro‚ which influenced his first Surrealist phase. In 1922‚ Dalí enrolled in Academia de San Fernando in Madrid‚ Spain‚ and stayed

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    King‚ ‘Nuclear Mysticism’‚ Salvador Dalí: Liquid Desire‚ p. 247 Centre Pompidou‚ 2007 - http://www.centrepompidou.fr/education/ressources/ENS-surrealistart-EN/ENS-surrealistart-EN.htm Art History Archive http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/surrealism/Origins-of-Surrealism.html Dali Dimension: Decoding the mind of a genius; 2008; Director: Suis Marqua‚ Joan Ubeda Dali‚ S‚1993‚ The Secret Life of Salvador Dali‚ Dover Publications Neret‚G‚ 2001‚ Dali: The Paintings‚ Taschen Wikipedia

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