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« on: July 13, 2015, 01:01:23 AM » |
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Art provides people with a means to express themselves. It can be used to spread new ideas, expand your imagination, fill you with emotion or send you a message. Art promotes critical thinking, it teaches us skills like collaboration and independence. It has been part of human existence since the dawn of time, as evident by cave paintings.
Once in a while, a true master comes along, enriching humanity with their art, like these 10 great masters and their masterpieces:
1. Artist: Salvador Dalí (1904 – 1989)
Most known painting: The Persistence of Memory 
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres, Spain. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931. It epitomizes Dalí's theory of "softness" and "hardness", which was central to his thinking at the time. As Dawn Ades wrote, "The soft watches are an unconscious symbol of the relativity of space and time, a Surrealist meditation on the collapse of our notions of a fixed cosmic order". It is currently located in the New York Museum of Modern Art.
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« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2015, 01:02:06 AM » |
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2. Artist: Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973)
Most known painting: Guernica   Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. The painting Guernica was created in response to the bombing of Guernica, a Basque Country village in northern Spain, by German and Italian warplanes at the behest of the Spanish Nationalist forces on 26 April 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. Guernica shows the tragedies of war and the suffering it inflicts upon individuals, particularly innocent civilians. It is on display in the Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain.
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« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2015, 01:04:54 AM » |
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6. Artist: Leonardo Da Vinci (1452 – 1519)
Most known painting: Mona Lisa  Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait of a woman by Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world". The painting, thought to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, is believed to have been painted between 1503 and 1506. It is on permanent display at The Louvre museum in Paris since 1797.Go to The NEXT Page for More Pictures >>>
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