Alexander Calder

In conclusion, Salvador Dali was a talented surrealist artist whose talent was often overshadowed by his personality. Even though he was often at odds with his peers, his talent and paintings have endured and are enjoyed by

I think what I like the most the murals that he painted I liked how he

His painting style is very different than mine, but I still love to watch and learn new things that I can experiment with in my style of painting. He accomplished many things in life, including finishing over 30,000 paintings and touching the hearts of millions of people while doing that. More recently, he has become very popular on social media, with over 67,000 followers on his Twitter fan page and over a million views on his YouTube painting videos. His love of painting has been brought

Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain People often ask what constitutes good art. Who decides whether or not a piece is art and whether it is good art or not? Marcel Duchamp challenged popular notions of his day about what art actually is. Duchamp, a French artist living in New York at the turn of the century, believed that it was up to the artist to determine what art is. Duchamp is most famous for a type of sculpture he created called “readymades”1. Readymades are ordinary functional household objects that have either been joined to other objects, or chosen to stand alone as sculpture. Examples of his readymades include a coat hanger nailed to the floor of his studio, a hat

His drawings of 1800’s military officers and of the Wild West are widely popular in today’s culture. He was a big contributor to the impressionist art movement. His watercolor paintings were absolutely marvelous. Impressionism is a style of art in which artist’s capture ideas in there head with just a glimpse. They paint with lots of color and are very bright and vibrant. A majority of these type of paintings are done outdoors. Remington was truly a genius when it came to his art styles. Not only did he use impressionism but he also used tonalism. Tonalism is a style of art when artists would paint landscape forms with very Earth toned colors. They were typically made with dark natural hues such as blue, gray, or brown. Before Frederic’s death in 1909 he started working with bronze and started his sculpting phase of his career. The very first sculpture he made was the famed “Bronco Buster.” The original “Bronco Buster” was created in 1895. This sculpture was just barely three feet tall. Many criticized Remington when he started the statute stating that the sculpture was impossible to create. It was the first sculpture that had a horse on its hind legs. Many stated that gravity would play a factor in his failure. They stated that when the bronze was cooling that it would run and the statute wouldn’t look correct. Well Remington decided he was going to prove them wrong. While he was making the statue he realized where he could

Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gough and Georgia O'Keeffe are all famous for their eloquent works of art. Although, I am no Picasso I do enjoy painting. When I was younger, you could often find me hanging out in the kitchen with my Nana (I am not allowed to call her grandma- long story). My eyes would get lost in the smooth color as we swirled the different colors together. Painting became sort of my Nana and I's special thing. As I grew visiting my Nana became less and less often along with creating my paintings.

Michael has over eight wire sculptures of animals and people. Two of them are wired on wood and hanged on a wall. Overall, Michael does a successful job in giving his sculptures three-dimensional aspects. For example, one of his finest works consists of a man sitting down in a chair with his crossed legs. Michael succeeds the 3D aspect of the sculpture by giving the man’s spine, head, and neck in round and cylinder shapes. In the, end the wire sculptures stand out because of how similar they all look to each other.

Although he never had an art lesson, but he can sculpt animal. For him, one glimpse is enough to sculpt. His brain is like a digital camera that takes a picture and stored. He became prodigious savant after he injured his head as a child that slow down his development affecting his cognitive ability, vocabulary as well as speech. Sculpting was his way to communicate. His art skills have improved along with his speech and vocabulary, social and daily living skills. His sculpting technic are quite impressive and his works are display in Driscol Gallery in Aspen,

The abstract expressionist whose work I admire the most is the work of Jackson Pollock. He was born on January 28, 1912 in Cody, Wyoming. “He was an influential American Painter, and the leading force behind the abstract expressionist movement in the art world” (Barbara Moore). When Pollock was 8, his father, who was an abusive alcoholic, left the family, and Pollock's older brother, Charles, became like a father to him. While the family was living in Los Angeles, Pollock discovered his passion for art.

On of the greatest artist in the entire existence of man, in my opinion, in Pablo Picasso. His work is recognized throughout the world, where these works are on display in some of the most visited museums in the world, where millions of people visit annually. The works are of art so sought out, that people spend millions of their money to get them for themselves. Picasso lived for almost 100 years, and in that time created tens of thousands of different works of art. He and Georges Braque are the creators of cubism, which was a completely different type of art for its time.

As a third-generation artist, Alexander Calder grew up surrounded by art. Calder’s mother was a painter and his father and grandfather were sculptors, and as a small child his parents ensured that he always had space and tools for his own artistic experimentation. Alexander Milne Calder, his grandfather, created historically based, monumental sized works such as the statue of William Penn seen on the

Calder's first significant recognition as an artist came when he exhibited his now- famous miniature circus with its animated wire performers at Paris's Salon des Humoristes in 1927. The idea for the toy figures can be traced back to sketches he made in 1925.The Museum of Modern Art in New York City gave a comprehensive exhibition of Calder's work in 1943, during which the artist gave performances of his famous circus; the show's catalog was the first extensive study on the artist. The following year he made sculptures out of plaster to be cast in bronze. These pieces moved at a slow, measured pace. During this period he illustrated Three Young Rats (1944), The Rime of the Ancient Mariner with Robert Penn Warren's essay on Coleridge (1945),

“If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it... The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it”(Alexander Calder). Alexander Calder was born in Lawnton, Pennsylvania, on July 22, 1898. Calder’s family was filled with sculptors. Alexander’s grandfather, Alexander Milne Calder, was a sculptor born in Scotland and in 1868, he moved to Philadelphia. He worked on many historical carvings of Philadelphia City Hall. Alexander’s father, Alexander Stirling Calder, was also a sculptor that had many public installations around Philadelphia. Alexander’s mother was an artist who painted portraits professionally. Alexander began making jewelry for his sister’s dolls out of copper wire and beads. He was first interested in mechanical engineering and applied and went to school at Stevens Institute of Technology from 1915 - 1919 in Hoboken, New Jersey. He worked several jobs about engineering until he took a drawing class and a painting class. Calder moved from New York City to Paris in 1926 and began working on figures and toys that would appear in what would be Calder’s Circus. He also started to make portraits and sculptures out of wire. He became popular in the art world for his Calder’s Circus performance which consisted of multiple characters and animals that he created and performed with them. Calder began creating jewelry with the wire that he used with the sculptures he made in 1929.

thoughts. Over the years of history, artists such as Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and many

Andy Warhol is probably the most infamous artists to emerge from this time period. Not only was Warhol a painter, he was also a commercial illustrator, avant-garde filmmaker, record producer, and author. His affection for consumerism and pop culture led him to create pieces of controversial art that is still popular today. Warhol was infatuated by