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Salvador Dali’s life and art were very closely related. Everything in his life was reflected in his art. All the major changes in his works and styles represented important turning points for him. When Dali was younger, he experimented with different styles. The first style he used was soft, blurry and seemed a little bit…

TIMKEN MUSUEM OF ARTThe Timken Museum of Art has its roots in the coincidental San Diego Relationship between two sisters, the Misses Anne R. and Amy Putnam, members of the Timken family of the Timken roller bearing treasure, and a local attorney, Walter Ames. The affluent Putnam sisters arrived in San Diego in the early…

The pop art movement began in London during the 1950’s and thenquickly spread throughout nearly all of the industrialized world. Although theartists did have some overlapping styles, pop art focuses more on the subject andless on style, which was left up to each individual artist. The main themes that isevident in all pop art revolves…

Romanticism literature in poetry and how it effects everyday society. “I have no quarrel, it is scarcely necessary to add, either with the man of science or the romanticist when they keep in their proper place. ” (Gleckner 33). Some people are still unclear of the exact boundaries in which literature is considered Romanticism, but…

Edvard Munchs “The Scream” was painted in the end of the 19th century, and ispossibly the first Expressionist painting. The Scream was very different from the art ofthe time, when many artists tried to depict objective reality. Munch was a tortured soul, and it certainly showed in this painting. Most of hisfamily had died, and…

Nude Figure By: Pablo PicassoPablo Picasso was born in Malaga in 1881. Pablo was the son of a respected art teacher, and due to his father’s influence, young Pablo entered the Academy at Barcelona at age 14. This was where he painted his first great work, “Girl with Bare Feet”. After two years of schooling,…

Michelangelo BuonarrotiMichelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, was a very influential man of his time and of all time. Michelangelo was born on March 6, 1475, in a small village a part of the Florentine territory known as Caprese. His father originally did not support his artistic ability, but just a while after Michelangelo’s 13th birthday,…

Vincent Van GoghI. Early LifeA. Birth1. Vincent van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853. 2. Vincent van Gogh was born in Groot Zundert, The Netherlands . 3. Van Gogh’s birth came one year to the day after his mother gave birth to a first, stillborn child–also named Vincent. B. Family1. Theodorus van Gogh was…

Getting Off the Welfare Carousel written by Teresa McCrary, discusses thestruggle a single mother in today’s world goes through trying to give their children thebest they deserve. The article speaks of the stereotypical remarks, toward the women onwelfare and the accusations of them so called milking the system. Teresa tells us how thenation-wide view of…

Picasso was an artist born on Oct. 25, 1881 in Malaga, Spain. At age 15 he was admitted to the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. Impatient under formal training the young Picasso went to Paris in 1900. There, tough constantly near starvation, he became infatuated with the street life of Montmartre, and made many…