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As a one of the foremost painters of the 20th century, Dalí, like Picasso and Warhol, can boast of having overturned the art of the previous century and directed contemporary art toward its present incarnation. As irrational as he was surrealist, this genius diverted objects from their original meanings, plunging them into the acid of his constantly churning imagination. A megalomaniac and an artist who understood above all the force of marketing and publicity, Dalí disorientates the viewer in order to draw him into the artist’s world. On his canvases, images and colours crash together to ...

Dada shocked the world between the years 1916 and 1922. Dada was not an art movement in the normal sense. It was a storm that broke over the art scene of the time, as the war upon the peoples. They consciously staged anti-art events. According to Max Ernst, it was the 'outbreak of anger and zest for life' at the same time. The indignation about the monstrous genocide during World War I was great and equally at the 'civilization that had brought it about.' Dada was an international uprising. The war radically changed the art scene in the vibrant cities of Europe. The international links that...

El término «Expresionista» se aplicó en un primer momento a la pintura francesa contemporánea expuesta en la Berlin Secession de 1911. En los años de la Primera Guerra Mundial, el concepto «Expresionista», con un sentido ya más amplio, pentró en muchos lugares de la cultura metropolitana alemana. Aunque carecía d euna cohesión estilística, el movimiento se vio unido por su rechazo del impresionismo y por la búsqueda de una realidad propia y esencial por debajo del mundo exterior de la apariencias. Shulamith Behr explora los temas de oposición -de las ambiguas imágenes de la...

Great grandfather longed to travel the seas, but life got in the way and he never left. His dauthter, though, carries out her father's dreams.