Saturday, April 28, 2018

Salvador Dali


Salvador Dali - 11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989



A Spanish painter and artist, one of the most famous artists of the surrealism movement and one of the most important artists of the 20th century. Critics described his works as a striking standard and a recipe for their viewers for their exotic and unique forms that transcend reason and mark.


In 1920, Salvador Dali expressed to his parents his desire to be a professional painter. His father ordered him to travel to Madrid to study at the Royal Academy of San Fernando of Madrid, the most prestigious Spanish art school, to obtain a certificate that would qualify him to be a teacher of painting at least.
Dali was has a rebel character, and in his youth he was associated with the Anarchists and Communists, and was associated with the "Dadaism" movement that emerged during the First World War.


Dali discovered paintings of contemporary art as he was young. He painted his first paintings without any knowledge of the techniques of this art. He was impressed by the painter Ramón Picot, who advised his father to send him to receive lessons by the artist and painter Juan Nunez.

Dali participated in the first collective exhibition in 1919 and in 1926 participated in several exhibitions in Madrid and Barcelona work influenced by various technical schools.
In 1929 he traveled to Paris and met the Spanish artist Joan Miró and contacted the Surrealist movement.

In 1932, Daley presented his famous painting “The Persistence of Memory“ at the first Surrealist Art Gallery in New York.


After the Nazi invasion of France in 1940, Daley chose to reside in the United States and there he completed many of his great works of religious character.

He returned to settle in Catalonia in 1949 until his death. Since that date, Dali has not only produced painting but also practiced various kinds of experimental art. He was one of the pioneers of 3D photography.


In the late years of his life he was recognized by the world's leading artists, and senior artists such as Andy Warhol announced that Dali's work was one of the most influential influences that led to the creation of the Pop art movement in painting.

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Pablo Picasso


Pablo Picasso 25/10/1881


A painter and sculptor, he is considered one of the most prominent 20th century painters. He is known for his outstanding artistic work, which is characterized by high professionalism and high artistic sense. He is also the founder of the Cubism art movement. Belongs to an artistic family. His father is the painter José Ruiz y Blasco, who was a painting teacher at a Spanish school and was secretary of the local museum, and his mother, María Picasso y López. Pablo had liked painting since he was young and his mother once mentioned that Pablo's first word was "pencil". After the age of seven, his father taught him the basics of painting and oil painting, and since then the painting has dominated his thinking and times until he was busy studying for painting.

Picasso went to Paris in 1911 as the capital of art in Europe, where he met French journalist Max Jacob, who later became his close friend, helped him learn French and French literature. Picasso's life was characterized by poverty and despair. Burned his artwork until the room where he was living was warmed up.

His artworks and style


Picasso's early artistic career was mixed with anarchism and modern art, followed by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch work. Picasso was deeply influenced by his works of art during that period. His works initially depicted social and realistic life like the painting of Nana the Picasso Museum is now in Barcelona.



 Picasso's paintings began to take on a new artistic expression, a cubist expression. The most famous paintings of Picasso's art were "Les Femmes d'Alger" and ” Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and since then The Cubism movement belonged to the artist Picasso, who became associated with his name.




His political views


Picasso was an anti-war fighter, but he showed no bias to anyone. He was against fascism. In 1944, he joined the French Communist Party. In 1950 he won the Stalin Peace Prize. In 1962, he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize. The Korean War The painting of the Korean Massacre was drawn to express the massacres that took place then.

Wednesday, May 7, 2014