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It’s in Paris’ Museum of Modern Art, which is one of Paris’ free museums. It was commissioned to decorate the curving walls of the Pavilion de L’Electricite et de la Lumiere at the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris.ĭufy’s fauvist painting was inspired by the story of the Electric Fairy from the ancient Roman poet Lucretius’s poem On the Nature of Things. This splendid Raoul Dufy mural measures 10 x 60 meters. The lobster telephone also appears in his paintings in the late 1930s.ĭufy, The Electricity Fairy, 1937 20. Lobsters and telephones had strong sexual connotations for Dalí. It’s created from the weird conjunction of two items not normally associated with each other, resulting in something both playful and menacing.ĭalí believed that surrealist objects could reveal the secret desires of the unconscious. The Lobster Telephone is a classic example of one of Dalì’s Surrealist objects. READ: Guide To the Dali Museum in Figueres Spain Dalì was a self-proclaimed dandy, a showoffy megalomaniac who loved nothing more than creating a sensation. When one thinks of Spanish Surrealist artist Salvador Dalì, his extravagant persona and iconic waxed mustache immediately leap to mind.
The face is shown in a combined frontal and profile view, with a red eye and a green eye facing in different directions. Dora Maar, then Picasso’s mistress, is represented majestically seated in an armchair, smiling and resting her head on a long-fingered hand. This is possibly my favorite Picasso piece in Paris’ Picasso Museum in the Marais neighborhood. He certainly had plenty of charisma and genius. Most art historians consider him the greatest artist of the 20th century. There’s no doubt that the art of Pablo Picasso was revolutionary and unparalleled in terms of quality and quality. Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Dora Maar, 1937 Entry: free, except for special exhibitions.The contrast of vivid color with black and white and the effect of fading in the right panel suggest the star’s harrowing fate. By repeating the image, he evokes her ubiquitous presence in the media. In Monroe, Warhold found a fusion of two of his consistent themes: death and the cult of celebrity. READ: Guide To the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh
The paintings are all based on the same publicity photograph from the film Niagara. When Marilyn Monroe died in August 1962, Warholmade more than 20 silkscreen paintings of her.
He ambitiously sought to revise the idea of art, to blur the distinction between fine art and commercial art. Is there any artist more American than Andy Warhol? He was obsessed with celebrity and wanted to be a superstar painter.
She gave the destitute artist a retainer and sponsored his first four shows. He was essentially discovered by the eccentric art collector Peggy Guggenheim in New York. Pollack had immense help in his endeavors. After long deliberation before the empty canvas, Pollock used his entire body in a rapid fire picture-making process that is essentially drawing in paint.īy pouring streams of paint onto the canvas from a can with the aid of a stick, Pollock made obsolete the conventions and tools of traditional easel painting. Jackson Pollack, Alchemy, 1947Īlchemy is one of Pollock’s earliest poured paintings, executed in the revolutionary technique that was his most singular contribution to 20th century art.
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