Thursday, December 10, 2009

Art in the 20th Century.


My favorite artist. Salvador Dali.

Why?

I dont know... maybe its the hidden sexual desires in his paintings, maybe it is his love for his wife, maybe it is just his interesting mustache! Or maybe its that he was still alive when I was at least for a year. OHH or is it the way he titles his art... most are familiar with The Persistence of Memory (featured)

As I look back at historical artists 20th century at least. There are a few that stand out in everybody's minds...
Picasso (Guernica)
Van Gogh
Edvard Munch (The Scream)
Monet (Waterlilies)
Richard Hamilton (whom I also adore for his unique inquisitive mind)
Henri Matisse (known for The Dance)
Georgia O'Keeffe (people think her paintings look like a woman's certain body part...hmm)
Piet Mondrian ( I am sure a lot of MODERN style these days comes from a certain painting of his called Tableau I you may know this)
Jackson Pollock(mmmm love him too!)
Roy Lichtenstein (Another Favorite known for his Pop Art)


"Chaos battles against order, hardness against softness, the raw against the coocked, biology against geology, farm workers against powerful landowners, red against white, republic against nation."

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