The artwork that I found the most interesting is The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali. I found this work at the Salvador Dali museum over at St. Petersburg‚ Florida. This is an oil on canvas painting with dimensions of 10 in x 13 in and it was created between the years of 1952 and 1954 (Salvador Dali Museum). The subject matter in this work is a little complicated to see but from my perspective I believe is time being destroyed by humanity. The painting depicts a panoramic
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Magic Realism is a literary school that arose shortly after Realism. Unlike Realism‚ Magic Realism distinguishes everyday components with surrealistic elements to weave together myth in an effort to question the true nature of one’s interpretation. The short story‚ “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings‚” by Gabriel García Márquez‚ attributes the common ordinary message with Magic Realism to allow the reader to untangle it‚ discover its meaning with child-like eyes‚ and to help one mentally experience
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Mrs. Vanessa Guilarte Sophomore Gifted Language Arts (2) 17 March 2014 The Inception in Not to be Reproduced René Magritte created an artwork that exhibits a paradox. He created this surrealistic art with oil paint in Belgium during the year 1937 on a 32” by 26” canvas. René Magritte’s Not to be Reproduced shows a young man facing a mirror with his back towards the viewer‚ but the mirror reflects what the viewer is seeing‚ his back. Within the artwork‚ there is an authentic‚ green book on top
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Amy J Compare and Contrast Essay The “Self-Portrait with a bandaged ear” by Vincent Van Gogh and “The Two Fridas” by Mexican painter Kahlo Frida are depicting the artists’ deep hurt and emotional breakdown at losing their special person in life. However‚ the portrait “The Two Fridas” is representing the artist’s conflicting psychological mind more into details and straightforward than Vincent Van Gogh’s self-portrait “The Bandaged Ear.” In “The Two Fridas‚” she uses various actions and
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Grant Metts 5/7/13 Mr. Walter Humanities Journal Critique There have been many skilled artists that have been able to create beautiful pieces. However there are others who are able to create a work of art that is so interesting that it is able to catch the viewer in its world and captivate them into looking at the piece for a long period of time. One of these works is the Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali. This piece is composed of desert landscape scenery with a few clocks melting over
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Turing against beauty: An Informative Summary of Rogers Scruton’s “why Beauty Matters” Roger Scruton’s documentary‚ “Why Beauty Matters.” Gives us an insight on what art is‚ why it is considered art‚ and the meaning of art and its true beauty it brings. Roger Scruton’s documentary shows us how art and what we consider “beautiful” has changed so drastically over the centuries. During the last century the art‚ music and architecture seemed to all be ugly. Going further and further away from what
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Rene Magritte was born in 1898 and was the eldest son of Leopold and Regina Magritte. He worked as a commercial artist to support himself‚ producing advertising and book designs‚ which I think you can see in his paintings as they some what have a visual impact of an advertisement. Magritte started out as an impressionist early on in his career before arriving at his trademark surrealist style after several years of study. His early influences were Fernand Leger and his earliest works were based on
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T.S. Elliot’s “The Wasteland” and Modernism. Elliot was both influenced by modernism and a reference of it. The dramatic change in form and content in literature (and human beliefs) of the last nineteenth century and the early twentieth century is noticeable in the poem. The Wasteland is also a reflection of the between wars years and also a prophecy for all that were to come. Elliot masters the form in the poem to create a sense of pessimism‚ decadence and fugacity. It is often said that his
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Portraiture Case Study “Some of the most fascinating portraits are those that offer the viewer an emotional or psychological insight into their subject” Compare and contrast the work of THREE artists who have explored the genre of portraiture. A portrait is typically defined as a representation of a specific individual‚ such as the artist might meet in life. “It could be drawn‚ painted‚ sculpted or photographed. A portrait is usually a statement‚ made firstly by the sitter‚ who wishes to be seen
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Artist research- Rene Magritte and Kiki Smith Rene Magritte was a Surrealist painter who was born in Belgium in 1898. He wanted people to look at ordinary things in different ways. He sometimes painted objects in places where they didn’t usually belong‚ like in Time Transfixed in which a train is coming out of a fireplace. Rene Magritte started off with several oil paintings such as the ‘Les Amants’. Magritte’s earliest
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