Picasso! The household name of Pablo Picasso belongs to a man of incredible escapism. Having experienced 19 different art movements, he knew all too well how to push the bars of art and break out of the jail cell. A movement that he helped create…
Essays on Famous Artists
The Starry Night is an oil painting by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. Painted in June 1889, it describes the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at St. Remy de Provence, just before sunrise with the addition of an ideal village….
Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the Great Depression. His family was from Slovakia, a country in central Europe. As immigrants, his family struggled to support themselves in America’s time of economic distress. According to Biography, Warhol grew up immersed in his Slovakian…
Painting in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Landscape painting is a genre of painting that illustrates the natural environment around us. Often, landscape painting depicts nature in its ideal state. Such paintings can be traced back as far back as 4th-century China. Though these types…
Photography is an art of capturing images, and it is important to people to know the value of every image, but for this photograph it will not just reveal the important values of the famous Dalí Atomicus in the past and in our present, but…
Apart from being a leading proponent of Surrealism, Salvador Dali also took delight in Freudian works. Sigmund Freud held a very significant place in Dali’s life. Freud was the idol, whom Dali admired and kept at a higher pedestal like God and so Jean-Pierre Barricelli…
Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domenech, was born in May 11 1904, in a small town called Figueres located in Pyrenees foothills, Spain. Of the three children in their family, Salvador was the second born. His first brother died and only nine months before he…
Dali’s life was a mystery that attracted controversy and the interest of many people making him a public image, a status that he enjoyed. Dali is renowned for his art that connected different ideas to his vision of reality. Born in 1904 in Spain, Dali…
At the mention of the word surrealism, one name often comes to mind Salvador Dali. Being a Spanish painter Salvador Dali’s life’s work centers on the use of surrealism to express himself in what we might call an unusual way. Dali remains one of the…
Along with Botticelli and Da Vinci, there are very few artists in the history of human art who enjoy world-wide recognition and they name are recognized wherever they are spelled, and Michelangelo is definitely one of them. This is an artist who would leave humanity…
The Pieta is a renaissance Sculpture made between the years 1498 and 1499 by the legendary artist, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni or most commonly known as “Michelangelo”. The Sculpture is located in St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. The Statue was commissioned by a…
Salvador Dali was a surrealist painter. He is mostly known for his bizarre paintings and ideas. However, not only was he a painter, he was also a writer who ventured into filmmaking. I find it quite amazing that Salvador Dali branched off into film making….
From a young age, Frida has been an advocate and critic of her society and of others. When she was a teenager, she attended the National Preparatory School and she was part of a group of young people who showed sympathy for socialism and cultural…
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderon was born in Coyoacan, Mexico on 6 July 1907, as the second daughter to her parents. Her mother, Matilde Calderon y Gonzalez, was of Spanish/Native American descent, while her father, Guillermo Kahlo, was a German/Hungarian professional photographer with European…
William Morris was born 24/03/1834 in Essex in England. When he was a teenager his father died so he was the oldest male of the household, he grew up in the countryside on large land. He went to Oxford University and became a poet he…
