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    Elsa Schiaparelli

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    and she got a divorce. Schiaparelli decided to move to Paris and and continue working in the fashion industry. She began designing in 1927 and opened her own fashion industry (N/A‚ web of 2 page). Schiaparelli ’s debut collection was a series of surrealist sweaters that became her trade mark image that we all know her for. She soon after released another successful collection of ski-wear‚ bathing suits‚ and then the “divided skirt”‚ a pair of shorts with the appearance of skirt. Schiaparelli is also

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    Frida Kahlo

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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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    Photomontage

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    together to create a new subject or visual image proved to be a powerful tool for the Dadists protesting World War I and the interests that they believed inspired the war. Photomontage survived Dada and was a technique inherited and used by European Surrealists such asSalvadorDalí. The world’s first retrospective show of photomontage was held in Germany in 1931. A later term coined in Europe was "photocollage"; which usually referred to large and ambitious works that added typography and brushwork or even

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    the same picture. By 1912 they had taken Cubism further by gluing paper and other materials onto their canvases. Between 1917 and 1924 Picasso designed stage sets for five ballets for Sergey Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. In the 1920s and ’30s‚ the Surrealists spurred him to explore new subject matter‚ particularly the image of the Minotaur. The Spanish Civil War inspired perhaps his greatest work‚ the enormous Guernica (1937)‚ whose violent imagery condemned the useless destruction of life. After World

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    Louise Bourgeois

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    When she produced her first sculptural work‚ her imagery had been influenced by European Surrealist artists who immigrated to the United States after World War II. Bourgeois ’s early sculptures were composed of groupings of abstract and organic shapes‚ often carved from wood. By the 1960s her work displayed a wide range of both materials and appearance

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    totally new approach to art history never got it back‚ the have lost it )-: How have women been depicted in modern art (1860-1960). How do these depictions reflect changing attitudes? Select a range of examples by both male and female artists to illustrate your answer. As I flicked through the heavy pages of the traditional and authoritative book on art history in my search of women seen through both male and female eyes and painted with the skills of a man’s and women’s hand most of what I

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    Korey Rogan 4/22/13 Art Appreciation IMA Project Write-up As I entered the Indianapolis Museum of Art I was amazed by the installation art in the main area. The first thing you see when you walk in pass the glass doors is Spencer Finch’s installation art‚ Following Nature‚ dangling from the ceiling. The work is so beautiful because it’s a thin piece of glass hanging from a string reflecting light from all different angles. And with the glass windows on the building having colorful‚ the

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    Persistence of Memory

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    “Persistence of Memory” This is one of Dalis most famous paintings and is called “Persistence of Memory” and also possibly known to be the “most recognizable surrealist painting in the world.” The painting is oil on canvas and was created in 1931 earning him world-wide recognition at just 27. Consisting of 4 clocks (3 of which seem to be melting) the other being over-run by ants as if decaying; a distorted face‚ possibly of Dali himself and a cliff formation in the background; the painting is

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    Artist’s Studio on Street‚ La Boetie The Artist’s Studio on Street La Boetie is a remarkable cubism immersed drawing that dates back to 1920 during the neoclassicist and surrealist period. It depicts a time 2 a.m. in the skies of Paris opened over Claude Lantier‚ the talented painter‚ but impatient runs through the rain only to arrive at his studio and find a young woman sheltering from the storm. As the downpour wears off and the woman lying in bed‚ the painter sleeps on the couch only to wake

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    The Dance of Death by Vincent of Kasta One of the most interesting images of death in the medieval art besides the Last Judgment is the dance macabre‚ the Dance of Death. It is a strange fantasy for us‚ but probably very consistent with the medieval acknowledgement of death and life as a continuum. One of the best and astonishing images of the Dance of Death is in . It is a fresco made by Vincent of Kastav around 1474. It is a very strange yet wonderful image full of all classes of men‚ women

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