Museum Report

Then there are also many psychological lines to be seen in the work. One such line is of the woman and the floor, where she is staring down towards it. Another is from the young child and the store clerk, showing a defiance between the two. Next, light and value are not very contrasting in this painting, with only the basic highlights and the shadows seen. It isn’t completely contrasting or contradicting since the colors blend well together with close to the same value ranges, dark colors seen throughout except for the people’s pale faces. There also seems to be a variety of light sources since the woman’s face along with the shop clerk and the young boy’s is lit up by what seems to be a light bulb since they’re much brighter and highlighted and then the men and women in the back aren’t really as bright, except for the ones who close to the open door, creating a blue tinge from the outside light. The shapes shown through the painting is shown to be either very round or very geometrical. There are organic shapes in things such as the umbrella or even the back of the chair, but mostly it is either straight lines and geometrical shapes. The volume shown in the painting is very much implied, correctly showing the

Another surrealist work of art by Salvador Dali is La Persistencia de la Memoria (fig. 2). It was painted in 1931, and is an oil on canvas. The painting can be found at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, NY, with dimensions of 33 x 24.1 cm. La Persistencia de la Memoria (fig. 2) is Salvador Dali’s most famous painting.

Salvador Dali was a surrealist painter born in the early 1900’s in Figueres, Spain. He is best known for his thought provoking images, eccentric behavior and bizarre surrealism, Dali’s art was anything but ordinary.

As an art student in Madrid and Barcelona, Dali assimilated a vast number of artistic styles and displayed unusual technical facility as a painter. Most importantly, he rejected to follow the rules docilely and appeared a sharp contrast with the conventional painting style. He depicted a dream world in which commonplace objects are juxtaposed, deformed, or otherwise metamorphosed in a bizarre and irrational fashion. One of his previous mentors who had expected

Another popular Dali paintings from the 1930's is “The Atavism of Dusk” .Sex, cannibalism and death were linked in Dali’s mind. By paranoiac association , precisely these anxieties were inspired by Millet’s painting depicting the piety of two laborers. In The Atavism of Dusk Dali expressed more explicitly this irrational significance which he divined in The Angelus. The posture of the two peasants is reproduced faithfully.

I have always loved the National Museum of Natural History, ever since I visited for the first time in fourth grade. My favorite exhibitions are definitely those dealing with animals or space, but I cannot pick a favorite. When I found out about the opportunity to volunteer at the museum, I was extremely excited, since the program seemed to be perfect for me. I have experience in teaching and talking in front of groups of people, but I want to take it a step further by talking and being a guide in a busier, more demanding setting. Plus, volunteering at the museum would be a dream come true since I could see the exhibitions every other week; you learn something new every time you visit. Lastly, and least importantly, I want to volunteer

An artwork is often an artist’s subjective expression of their context. The ideology of artists, their perceptions of their contexts and the materials available to them play a significant role in the creation of their artworks. However, an artist’s intentions can be misinterpreted or disregarded by their audience, often sparking fervent discussion within the art world. Through the artists Ai Weiwei and Marcel Duchamp, we can clearly see how personal reactions to an environment shape the intent of artworks. Additionally, from their audiences’

Van Gogh`s paintings are a tremendous contribution to the development of art. Inspired by bright colors, he painted and painted which had a turning point and have been duplicated many times by many experts whereas never reaching the emotional typically intensity of Van Gogh`s.

During the time this painting was made,

Most of these are the reason for a few of the iconic and from now on common graphics where Dali accomplished incredible fame while in his life span in addition to over and above.

Impressionist art brought with it a characteristic and long-lasting originality and approachability that, until now, was never found in the art of earlier periods. The interests of these painters seem to be relevant to our own and function humbly by exciting our visual contentment. The term “impressionism” itself entails a great assemblage of extraordinary painters who have changed the artistic world, as we know it.

He displayed artistic talent relatively early on, but he wasn’t “precocious” in his development; as of his attendance at the School of Fine Arts in Madrid, he had not yet found a “direction for his art” (Soby 3). He was expelled from the School in 1926, but by then he already had had several exhibitions, and shortly thereafter shifted his focus to Paris. His work was technically very proficient, but as late as 1929 there is a clear lack of stylistic choice in his paintings. Several contemporary paintings from that period might be done in a Cubist style for one, the next Impressionistic, and yet another reminiscent of 17th century Dutch realistic still lives. In 1929, Dali officially joined the Surrealist party and moved to Paris. Dali was clearly capable of being stylistically flexible, and that enabled his later variety of subjects.

Dali never limited himself to one style or particular medium. Beginning with his early impressionistic works, greatest inspiration.

Art is an important part of human’s life which could not be short of. It always uses its graceful behavior to influence people’s daily life. The history of art is the reflection of human beings’ history, it records every necessary event in the past thousands of years. Eiffel Tower, Khufu Pyramid, Venice and Taj Mahal, these artificial demonstrate their specific charm. They are the marvelous spectacles in the world and they are the representatives in the realm of art. However, in ordinary beings’ daily lives, there also some specific artificial which should be paid attention to, oil paintings. Oil paintings is a method to give the rein to one’s imagination cooperate with reality for artists. The inspirations come from life, but better than life. Especially for portraitures, the miracle of oil paintings. Drawing a character on paper is a hard way, because it is not only drawing how a person looks like, but also shows his social status and his positions. The character on the paper is real exist, but also not the real person. Painting master must use his wonderful skill to create a person on paper, and gives the soul to the character to help others recognize this character. There are two paintings could be the representatives of excellent portraitures. The “María Teresa del Castillo”, by Zaragoza, Spain, 1734 – 1795. And the “Portrait of the Dwarf Michol”, by Avilés, Spain, 1614 – 1685. Both pictures exhibit a kid who lived in 17th-18th century, people would be impressive by

Salvador Dali is a Spanish artist known for being a key figure in Surrealism, which began as a cultural movement before transitioning to an artistic movement. Salvador Dali was born near Barcelona, Spain on May 11, 1904. In his early childhood, he was known to have “fits of anger against his parents and classmates and received cruel treatment from them in response” (Biography 1). As he continued school at the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid, his troublesome ways did as well. He was suspended from the art school for criticizing his professors, and later permanently expelled for stating that the faculty was not competent enough to examine him. As the years went on, Dali’s style of the “dream world” began to be noticed. The “dream world” style is depicted as, “each object existed in strange contrast to other objects and was contained in a space that often appeared to tilt sharply upward. He applied bright colors to small objects set off against large patches of dull color” (Encyclopedia 1). His biggest influence of his paintings was the Surrealist movement which leads to smaller influences like history, science, and other artists. Through these influences Dali created many unique paintings such as: Soft Construction with Boiled Beans, The Persistence of Memory, and Portrait de Paul Eluard.