August 2007
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Dali Created Destino
My Arts teacher discussed another impressive artist in class today. He discussed to us the artist’s biography, he showed to us samples of his works and truly the artist is still astounding even in present times. His name is Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali I Domeneech. Salvador Dali, for short.
Salvador Dali worshipped surrealism. He was a Spanish Catalan painter born in Figueres. He was...
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Claude Monet Introduced French Impressionist...
Claude Monet was born an artist. When he was young, he was known for his charcoal caricatures. He also took his drawing lessons under Jacques Francois Ochard, a former student of Jacques-Louis David. When he was fifteen, he met a fellow artist in the person of Eugene Boudin. Boudin became Monet’s mentor in using oil paint. He also taught him outdoor techniques for painting known as “en...
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Gustav Klimt's Life As An Artist
One of the most distinguished members of the Vienna Art Nouveau movement was Gustav Klimt. He was an Austrian Symbolist painter. His works of art included murals, paintings and sketches. Gustav Klimt’s primary subject of interest was the female body. It is obvious in his works that the theme were marked by explicit eroticism.
Klimt was one of the three boys of the family. All three of them...
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Was Vincent Van Gogh A Fulfilled Man?
A Dutch Post-Impressionist artist was Vincent van Gogh. His early adult life was spent working in a firm of art dealers. He used to be an educator before he became a missionary worker in a helpless mining area. He did not give much attention to art and painting until he was in his late twenties. At first, he only made use of somber colors. His style in painting had transformed when he already...
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A Revolutionary Movement Called Surrealism
Surrealism is an art movement that existed from 1919 to 1939. The believers of this movement called themselves surrealists. Their art directly spoke to large audience. Surrealism is the screaming of realism. Surrealism was said to be the irrational combination of interpretation of subjects. Its primary goal is to make the most familiar objects scream loud.
Surrealism is famous for the visual...
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Media Of Romanticism
Romanticism is a movement in the late 18th century and the early to mid 19th century. Romanticism is a complex literary, artistic and intellectual movement that can be traced back in Western Europe and was popularized during the Industrial Revolution.
Romanticism expresses strong emotion, deep imagination and extreme freedom from the classical definition of reality. Romanticism is often associated...
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Media Of Expressionism
The opposite of Impressionism is the art movement called Expressionism. Expressionism is subjective by nature. This movement gives its artists ultimate freedom in the interpretation and portrayal of different subjects. This movement somehow bends the reality for a deeper emotional effect. Expressionism is often associated to the presentation of emotional angst of artists in particular subjects...
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Impressionist Art
Impressionism is an art movement that refers to the visual arts in the late nineteenth century. This movement greatly stressed on the portrayal of an overall impression of a particular scenario with the use of the primary colors and simple brushstrokes to produce an image of a reflected light. Impressionist paintings have simple subject matter and open composition. There is also an inclusion of...
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Pablo Picasso's Struggles
I had a book on Pablo Picasso. Even in my young age, I already had a huge interest in learning the Spanish genius: Pablo Picasso. He was a painter, a sculptor and a draughtsman all packed in one. He had made his name during his lifetime because of his intense love for art. He was best known for his contribution to the Cubist movement. He had applied wide variety in his styles. His famous works...
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Poor Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas was a French painter and sculptor. He was also famous for his experties in printmaking and drawing. He is distinguished to be one of the founders of Impressionism. He was famous for his crafts on painting that highlighted female nudity with the theme on Impressionism. Degas, who was an Impressionist, had works who are “understandable but contained insufficient description.”...
