May 11 1904 ~ Jan 23 1989 As an art student in Madrid and Barcelona, Dalí assimilated a vast number of artistic styles and displayed unusual technical facility as a painter. In the late 1920s, two events brought about the development of his mature artistic style: -His discovery of Sigmund Freud’s writings on the erotic significance [...]
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Salvador Dalí
Posted in Artist's Proof, tagged painting, Salvador Dali, surrealism on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
Posted in Artist's Proof, tagged Kandinsky, painting on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colors, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential.” Contrasting Sounds Several Circles. 1926. Oil on canvas. The Solomon [...]
Pierre Auguste Renoir
Posted in Artist's Proof, tagged Impressionism, painting, Renoir on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If I could choose a world to live in, it would be in his. Conversation with the gardener The Meadow In the Garden Boating on the Seine Noirmoutier
Marc Chagall
Posted in Artist's Proof, tagged chagall, painting on November 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
His artistic credo came straight from the heart: “The entire world within us is reality, perhaps more real than the visible world. If one calls everything that seems illogical fantasy or a fairy tale, all one proves is that one has not understood Nature.” I and the Village 1911 – I saw this one at [...]
French Class
Posted in Their Poetry, tagged french, painting, poetry on November 6, 2008 | 6 Comments »
My French class last Wednesday was had with a French poet by the name of Denis Emorine, who joined our class for discussion of his work. For the poems we read, Emorine drew inspiration from paintings done by an American surrealist artist, Jennifer Bock-Nelson. And all along I’d been thinking that the artist-poet collaboration was [...]
