Essays on Artist

INTRODUCTION Background According to Cunningram (2016: 01) a tender is a term used to describe a contractor’s priced offer to construct the work. Whereas Hackett & Statham (2016: 65) explains that the purpose of any tendering procedure is to select a suitable contractor at a…

According to the New York Times writer Robin Pogrebin and Scott Reyburn, in 2017 Basquiat 1982 painting “untitled” auctioned off for a record breaking $110.5 million dollars. It set several records when auctioned off, by becoming the highest amount ever paid for an American/African-American artist…

Salvador Dali’s painting Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man (1943) is a dynamic piece that utilizes multiple elements and principles of art to convey its meaning. Dali’s piece portrays a sense of otherworldly intrigue, if not disgust, as a man hatches from…

These three artists utilized the human body as a vessel, leaving out unnecessary information by simplifying form, color and light. Coming from different movements and cultures such as Impressionism, American Renaissance and also Japanese ukiyo-e print designing. Also using different techniques like painting, inking, sketching…

Salvador Dali was known for his surrealist artworks. The term surrealism first appeared in the writings of French poet Guillame Apollinaire who used it in 1917. It is known that surrealism is irrational, and hallucinatory. It positioned itself not from escape from life but as…

The twentieth century was a major turning point for artists as dozens of newly founded artistic styles were created and admired. Many of the movements contrasted traditional ways of painting, which were most active prior to the 1900s. However, as artistic movements shifted towards unconventional…

In “Ways of Seeing,” art critic John Berger discusses a key argument, which is, that if you know your history, then you know where you are coming from. In Berger’s more classically Marxist formulation he states, “A people or a class which is cut off…

Between the representation of art and science with Picasso and Einstein, the discovery is made that both art and science are equally valuable, but beyond that, even within one another’s disciplines, both science and art are required to generate a nice balance and thusly increase…

Un Perro Andaluz is a silent, surrealist short film co-written by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali and directed by Buñuel. According to Linda Williams, surrealism was inspired by the “subsequent exploration of the relation between the unconscious thought and poetic production” (Williams 12). She explains…

Maya Lin: A Personal Reflection Learning about Maya Lin and her struggle changed my understanding and appreciation of her work by making me realize how much racism she had to deal with, especially from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Just because she is Asian doesn’t mean…