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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How Did Salvador’s Art Become so Popular? Salvador’s art has influenced many people and artist till this day. With his amazing surrealist kinds of art depicting the things of the real world but in a different perspective. It all started with the birth of Salvador Dali of May 11‚ 1904. He had two siblings‚ Salvador was his 9 month older brother‚ but he soon died before Dali was born. His parents like to say to Salvador that he was his brothers reincarnation. The second sibling Salvador had was his
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Title: Diego and IDescription:Diego and I was a self portrait painted by Frida Kahlo in 1949. This work was created in Mexico using the media oil on Masonite. It is 29.8cm by 22.4cm and features an abstract portrait of Frida and Diego. Analysis:The portrait includes a variety of symbols and objects including tears falling down her cheeks‚ a third on Diegos forehead‚ Diegos face on the middle of Fridas forehead‚ hair closing around Fridas neck and her mono-brow. The paint has been well blended and
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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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