Roberto Matt Making The Invisible Visible

The artist Fernando LLort was born on April 7, 1949 in San Salvador, El Salvador. He enjoyed art ever since he was a young boy in Elementary school. When he was in school, he always drew on his school supplies and took every chance he could to take an art class to help improve his art skills. At the age of 23, he left home and moved to La Palma, El Salvador to pursue his dreams of being an artist. The art work “My Country’s Universe” made in 2014, is about Fernando's point of view of El Salvador. He thought of El Salvador as a wonderful place to live at, with the clean environment and everyone interacting with others. People made art on the side of buildings, benches or street. A lot of Fernando's art works were exhibited in museums in New

Diego Rivera was born on December 8, 1886, in Guanajuato, Mexico. At the age of three years Rivera began drawing on his walls at home and his parents saw this and instead of punishing him for drawing on the walls they nurtured his creativity. Rivera made art that portrayed the lives of working class Mexican people. Rivera’s passion for art began from a young age. Around 10 old years he went on to study art at the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico City where he received training modeled on conservative European academies. Later in his life he traveled to Europe to continue his art studies where he friended many famous artists such as Pablo Picasso. In Spain, Rivera studied the work of El Greco, Velazquez, Goya, and the Flemish masters

Diego Rivera born in 1886 in Guanajuato Mexico. At a young age had a passion for art. At the age of 20 years old was given a scholarship to study in Europe. He studied in Europe for 14 years he first started with Cubist style painting but then in Italy he found his medium. Rivera purpose was a way to express the complexities of the fragile political ground that was going on around the world plus show the struggles of the working class. He then returned back to Mexico to learn and understand the Mexican culture and the working class. He wanted his art frescos accessible to both the rich and poor. He wanted to show in his murals the working class and also how technology was important and how

Diego’s love of art started when he was just 4 years old. His parents always bought him colored pencils and pens, which he would draw all over the walls and furniture. By the time he was 9, he had made his decision that he wanted to be a professional artist. His mother enrolled him into art classes at the

The Famous Artist, Diego Rivera, was born December 8th, 1886. Rivera went to study art at the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico City. He began to study on painting at an early age in 1907 and moved to Europe. On his later free time for the past 14 years in Paris, Diego Rivera found the works of such great masters like Matisse, Gauguin, and Cezanne. Which inspired him to become an even better artist than he was before. While in europe he was hoping to find a new format of art, and one he could express and that can reach any audience. The main reason to how he found his inspiration was when he studied the renaissance frescoes of Italy. Rivera has also studied in Paris which meant he was learning different art

Born in Malaga, Spain, in October of 1881, he was the first child born in his family.His father worked as an artist,and was also a professor at the school of fine arts; he also worked as a curator for the museum in Malaga.Pablo Picasso studied under his father for one year, then went to the Academy of Arts for one year,prior to moving to Paris.In 1901 he went to Paris,which he found as the ideal place to practice new styles,and experiment with a variety of art forms.It was during these initial visits, which he began his work in surrealism and cubism style,which he was the founder of,and created many distinct pieces which were influenced by these art forms.During his stay in Paris, Pablo Picasso was constantly updating his style; he did work from the blue period, the rose period, African influenced

Salvador Dali is one of the most famous surrealist artists. His artwork is fascinating to look at and analyze. All of his work is very imaginative, rendered at a high level of realism, and is filled with extensive symbolism. First I will talk about the history of Surrealism, then how Dali studied and admired Sigmund Freud's theories which greatly influenced his art, he used Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of dream interpretation to invent a technique for his work, and then using this technique he painted his bizarre dreams.

Even though she wasn’t an official member of Surrealism Most of her artwork was very influenced by her personal issues in her childhood and from her accident, and her artwork was also always autobiographical. She also used her own mixed ethnic background in her artwork, and she let her German-Mexican background affect her work.

She had evolved her artwork to be a more assertive sense of Mexican identity thanks to the exposure of the modernist indigenist movement in Mexico and her interest in preserving the revival of Mexicanidad during the rise of fascism in Europe. She also began to distance herself from her Germanic roots as she changed her original name, Frieda to Frida. However, the terrible experience of two failed pregnancies had made a huge impact on her artwork as well. These influences are what created the harsh yet beautiful representation of the female experience through symbolism and autobiography. Nonetheless, throughout the 1930s life grew tenser and tenser. Rivera had been an unfaithful husband and the revolutionary climate leading up to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War made for a tense atmosphere. Kahlo chose to separate from her husband in 1935 and had rented a flat for herself in Mexico City. The following year, Kahlo joined the Fourth International and returned to the Casa Azul, which became a meeting point for those part of the Fourth International. Several of Kahlo's masterpieces, such as The Two Fridas (1939), were painted within this time. They reflected the difficulty of this period. Kahlo visited Mexico City in 1930, where the founder of Surrealism, André Breton, took an interest in her paintings and hosted what would be Kahlo’s first exhibition in Paris of 1939 at Galerie Renou et Colle. Although the

Although there are significant distinctions between Dadaism and Surrealist movement in their focus of interest in exploring the language and the art, they also happen to have similar concept for groundbreaking the norms and sometimes makes it hard for people to differentiate them. Then, here is an artist who manage to cover and is considered to be one of the pioneers for both Dadaism and Surrealism: Max Ernst. Due to the traumatic army experience during the World War 1, Ernst became highly critical of the western culture. His experience of the brutality of the world critically influenced his later works to become quite absurd, yet interesting like those of other Dadaists. In terms of relationship between the word and the image, Ernst created the so-called fatagaga, or Fabrication de Tableaux Gasometriques Garantis, which meant the combination of the artists to create an artwork including imagery and text. These Dadaist collaborative works deemphasized the importance of individual authorship and allowed the artists’ interactions to further development of Dadaism.

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

From 1919 on, Balla took on a new side in the art world, becoming involved the scientific viewpoint in society. He was one of the stand out figures in Futurism, and "Giacomo Balla (1871-1958)... was among others who signed the 'Manifesto of the Futurist Painters' during interwar years, were already inclined to an interest in the heated, fantasy mixed with modernist machine-worship and extremist political rhetoric of Marinetti's manifesto," (Richard Humphreys, Futurism). Along with many other artists, Balla signed the Futurist Manifesto during the interwar period to bring art into a new spectrum. The artists wanted to bring the aspect of science and innovation into art and used abstract shapes as a way to inspire individuals to view art through new perspective of innovative thinking. Giacomo became fascinated by Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, where he first learned about the science behind speed and light when he heard that “First, Einstein showed that time, space, and matter are interdependent, as expressed in the famous formula e - mc2, where e is energy, m is mass, and c is the speed of light,” (World History in Context). Growing up, Balla's father was an industrial chemist, so he was born into the ideas of scientific reasoning, and as he lived through the interwar era, Balla took an interest in Speed and Light, which was stated in Einstein's Theory of Relativity. During the interwar period, Einstein's famous point was shown in many of his later pieces, influencing a lot of his progressive work, and he showed that in his first Futurist inspired piece titled, Abstract Speed - The Car Has Passed. “This painting is the first of a new and remarkable development in the direction of Futurism and exemplifies the way in which Balla’s professionalism brought him to results that were perfectly in tune with the times and, in some cases, led him to formal inventions that anticipated other

The first “Manifesto of Surrealism” was published in 1924 succeeding dadaism, an art movement of the European avant-garde often regarded as the movement that brought forth postmodern art. At the time of its publication, Europe was still reeling from World War I and art was very much political. Breton and other surrealists wanted to break free from the conventional art if the times and express the imagination as revealed in dreams. Thus, the “Manifesto of Surrealism” came about in which Breton discussed the importance of merging dream and reality.

Salvador Dalí is best known as the flamboyant and eccentric poster-boy of the Surrealist Movement. Born in 1904, Dalí spent the majority of his life working on various forms of his art, making him one of the most versatile artists of the twentieth century. While he is notorious for his paintings, he worked with many different mediums, which included sculpting, fashion, photography, and film. He began to show an incredible skill in art from very early on in his life, a skill that was nurtured by both of his parents. He began his formal training at age ten, which he continued until he was twenty two. Dalí was enrolled in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando until he was expelled from the academy for confidently claiming that “none of

Salvador Dali was born into a middle class family on May 11th 1904 in Figures, Spain. During his lifetime, he was an eccentric painter, writer, sculptor and experimental film maker. In Dali’s early years of painting he experimented at first with landscapes, most of which were of his home in Figueres, Spain. Dali also made paintings of the surrounding area of his family’s summer home, in the seaside town of Cadaques. Dali’s transitional period was between 1927 and 1929, these were years of experimentation. In this period gravel, rocks, cork, and other materials can be noted on his canvases. This was more abstract period then others, at this time in Dali’s life he had just been kicked out of the art school he had been attending .