Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan is a famous singer-song writer and has been for five decades. His early lyrics incorporated a variety of political‚ social and philosophical‚ as well as literary influences. - In 2008‚ a Bob Dylan Pathway was opened in the singer’s honor in his birthplace of Duluth‚ Minnesota. - Bob Dylan was refered to in the novel The Messenger when Ed was describing his bad his career was going at his age. "Ed Kennedy is 19 and very much aware of how little he has going for him. After
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“I paint my own reality.” - Frida Kahlo. To what extent is this true? People labeled Frida Kahlo as a Surrealist‚ although she disagreed with this title saying‚ “I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.” This statement is true to an extent because her main topics of her paintings are love‚ lost‚ politics and surgery and they reflect the events of her life. The painting “Henry Ford Hospital” or otherwise known as “The Flying Bed” was done by Frida Kahlo in 1932 with oil on metal. The
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Aldo Rossi regards reason and memory as the backbone of his work‚ which is why he admires the 19th century rationalist Adolf Loos so much. Both of them want to capture the reality of their works by avoiding the use of ornaments (Adolf Loos wrote "Ornament and Crime") and emphasizing on the relationship between architecture and the society whilst maintaining historical and traditional values. Aldo Rossi also admires Loos for his concept of having reason behind everything he does with his projects
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Alberto Giacometti Giacometti was a key player in the Surrealist art movement‚ but his work resists easy categorization. Some describe it as formalist‚ others argue it is expressionist or otherwise having to do with what Deleuze calls ’blocs of sensation’ (as in Deleuze’s analysis of Francis Bacon). Even after his excommunication from the Surrealist group‚ while the intention of his sculpting was usually imitation‚ the end products were an expression of his emotional response to the subject. He
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Classic Landscape was painted in 1932 by Charles Sheeler. It was painted on a canvas with oil. The First thing to catch my eye in this painting was how defined and straight the lines are. There are lines everywhere in this painting. I really like this painting because it’s abstract but not in a way most people would define abstract as. Metaphysical Interior with Bisquits was painted by Giorgio De Chirico in 1916. It was also painted with oil onto a canvas. These two paintings are very similar to
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What defines who we are? Andre Breton narrator and writer of the book Nadja explores the notion of how the city depicts identity. Bright Lights‚ Big City by Jay McInerney similarly considers the aspects of the city that converges to the development of identity. This paper will argue and compare how Paris and New York City shape and challenge the identity of the narrators through ghostliness‚ and the uncanny. Breton writes about his experiences in Paris‚ what he values about the city‚ the artists
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Facts This piece of art was produced by Mijn Schatje is 2009. The piece is called Blu and its name can be interpreted as the name of the doll in the piece. This piece of art belonged to the pop and surrealist art movement. I think that the title of the piece‚ ‘Blu’ is the name of the doll in the work‚ but it could also represent the ‘blue-ness’ of the piece as there is a constant wash of blue‚ blue could also represent sadness and loneliness‚ which is also present in the piece through the dolls
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The gallery which I visited is the Juxtapoz x Superflat show located at the Vancouver Art Gallery. This exhibition is at the third floor of the building. Due to the theme and the style of Juxtapoz magazine is pop surrealist‚ which partly how the superflat culture‚ the influence of “flatness” of Japanese manga and anime culture. For the word pop surrealist‚ the first thing comes to my mind is paintings with vivid colours and odd images. This exhibition is trying to include multi-media to deliver
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In 1863‚ Joaquin Sorolla was born in Valencia‚ Spain. In 1865‚ his parents died leaving him and his sisters with their aunt and uncle who took care of them. When he has 14 years old‚ Sorolla began studying art‚ his passion. At 18 years old he decided to move to Madrid in order to study the paintings situated at Museo del Prado. After four years of living and studying in Madrid‚ he decided to return to Valencia. While in Valencia‚ he met his wife‚ whom he had three children with. And then decided
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Tuna Fishing with the Walrus The surrealist movement began in the 1920s‚ and many of its artists continued to do work well into the sixties and seventies. The most famous of these surrealists was Salvador Dali. In 1967‚ Dali painted what was regarded as one of his last masterpieces entitled Tuna Fishing. In the same year‚ the song “I am the Walrus” was written by the Beatles as a response to a fan letter they recieved. At this time in American history there existed a considerable resentment towards
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