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    Pablo Picasso’s Surrealism Surrealism was a movement that began in the early part of 1920s. Surrealism‚ unlike other art forms‚ can be characterized by “fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter.” (Merriam Webster Dictionary). In a sense‚ it wouldn’t make much sense to the naked eye‚ as the paintings do not appear like a normal object that we see in our day to day life. Rather it creates strange and illogical creatures out of everyday objects. Picasso was a great artist

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    The work of the Spanish painter Paco Pomet (Granada‚ 1970) inserts itself against the flow in the contemporary visual culture of intensive production of images vindicating the use of the imagination to challenge the common‚ and obsolete‚ perception of reality. For the execution of his paintings‚ the artist selects anonymous images‚ usually from photographic archives‚ and reproduces them with astonishing accuracy and exceptional technical mastery. Along with this operation‚ Pomet distorts the meaning

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    Salvador Dali was born as the son of a prestigious notary in the small town of Figuera in Northern Spain. His talent as an artist showed at an early age and Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali received his first drawing lessons when he was ten years old. His art teachers were a then well known Spanish impressionist painter‚ named Ramon Pichot. In 1928 Dali went to Paris where he met the Spanish painters Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro. He established himself as the principal figure of a group of surrealist

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    Frida Kahlo Analysis

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    The Surreal Life of Frida Kahlo “They thought I was surrealist. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.” – Frida Kahlo Surrealism was inspired by the burgeoning science of psychology‚ especially its concept that the mind was made up of both conscious and subconscious parts. Surrealism involved freeing the unconscious realm of dreams and neurosis by combining images from the actual world and arranging them in such way that “worked against the logical and rational processes of making

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    Cayleigh York 4-20-14 3rd block Coach Crouch Salvador Dali Salvador Dali is a famous artist that is known for his surrealist work. Surrealism combines random images or events and presents them in a dream-like way. Dali was born on May 11‚ 1904. His parents‚ Salvador Dalí i Cusí and Felipa Domenech Ferrés‚ took Salvador the graveyard and told Salvador at the age of five that he is his deceased brother’s‚ also named Salvador‚ reincarnation. Since his brother died of gastroenteritis nine months

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    Auteur Theory

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    CHAPTER 1: Auteur theory in the context of Film theory Although the term auteur dates back to the 1920s in the theoretical writings of French film critics and directors of the silent era‚ it is worth pointing out that in Germany‚ as early as 1913‚ the term ‘author’s film (Autorenfilm) had already been coined (Hayward‚2000: 20). Hayward believed that the Autorenfilm emerged partly as a response to the French Film d’Art (art cinema) movement‚ which began in 1908. Film d’Art was particularly successful

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    The author‚ Andres Padilla-Lopez‚ states informations about how teenagers can overuse technology in extreme ways. He includes a few personal stories by teenagers who overused technology. The author doesn’t only include one type of information‚ but instead he uses many different types of informations to show the ways that teens use technological devices. The types of information that Andres Padilla-Lopez use include the following: opinions‚ facts‚ numerical data‚ generalizations‚ and information

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    Rizal's Life

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    Reaction to the movie: This film has power. I did not feel this 3-hours-movie long. Director Diaz-Abaya described Rizal not only from outside but from his inner side. The plot was very complicated‚ but still not difficult to follow. Since I first knew of Rizal in a book of Asian history‚ I have had a question. Why is Rizal the National Hero‚ not Aginard‚ nor Bonifacio? Rizal did little except writing two novels. Why? Watching the movie‚ I thought I had an answer. Historically‚ his books and

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    (HIST 1023) Buhay‚ Mga Gawa‚ at Kaisipan ni Rizal 1. Read the two significant poems of Dr. Jose Rizal. (Self-Study) 1.1 Find and examine the symbolic‚ literal‚ and connotative meaning of the poem. 1.2 Familiarize yourself into important details about the poem The Intimate Alliance Between Religion and Good Education As the climbing ivy over lefty elm Creeps tortuously‚ together the adornment Of the verdant plain‚ embellishing Each other and together growing‚ But should the kindly elm refuse

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    Timecrimes

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    “Timecrimes”‚ a science fiction film about a man who finds himself stuck in a time loop only to realize that he is constantly running from himself. “Timecrimes” was directed and written by Nacho Vigalondo who also starred it in. It is thanks to his character for creating the start of the time loop‚ though we never find out why the loop started originally. Perhaps‚ it was an elaborate scheme thought up by Nacho Vigalondo’s character‚ El Joven. In my opinion‚ this is the best example of the auteur

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