... unexpectedly generates a wonderful sight. It states darkness in the artist's soul. The artist of the painting is none other than Vincent Willem Van Gogh, who is a famous Dutch post-Impressionist painter. He drew the painting in an asylum at Saint-Remy, France, in 1889. He cut off his own ear, and ... melancholy. Van Gogh's expression and mood is located at trough. His grief of the inner-world is outspokenly embodied in color elements of the painting. The red-brown cypress tree represents Van Gogh's passion and struggle; the cypress tree almost reaches the top of edge, which illustrates ...

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... surrealist himself. Throughout his life he "cultivated eccentricity and exhibitionism, claiming that this was the source of his creative energy." (Web Museum) Dali was an extremely versatile artist. Aside from painting he made jewelry, glassware, clothing, tableware. He also directed movies, operas, ballets, and theatrical performances. Dali had quite an appearance different from others, not just physical, but his attitude ... his paintings. Dalis" interprets this piece, "The soft watches are nothing else than tender, extravagant and solitary paranoiac-critical camembert of time and spac...

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... all these were memorialized on canvas. He pictured the underbelly of society in a real, true to life manner. He captured their feelings and emotions in every painting. For example in his "Woman Pulling Up h! er Stockings,"" Latrec shows a day in the lives of "low class- prostitutes. They seem to be ... they were indeed the shunned of society. Latrec uses the setting (a dark, dirty room) to relay a feeling of poverty and deprivation. In his next painting "Alone,"" Latrec, once again pictures a low class, poverty stricken woman who appears to be some kind of factory worker or maybe even pro...

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... argument goes on as to whether the most amazing innovation of the 20th century is pop art, or cubism. Both arose from a rebellion against an accepted style: the Cubists thought Post-Impressionist artists were too tame and limited, while Pop Artists thought the Abstract Expressionists pretentious and over-intense. Obviously, possibly the most famous pop artists of all time is Andy Warhol ... work clearly remains completely original and unlike any other. His professional work has turned him from an ex-graffiti artist, to now painting on canvases. Far from what he or anyone would expect, h...

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