... ; surrealists painted a fantastic world of wild dreams and complex symbols, where watches melted and giant metronomes beat time in precisely drawn but impossible alien landscapes 24. Guernica -mural painted by Pablo Picasso; masterfully unites several powerful strands in 20th century art; inspired by the Spanish Civil War; combined the free distortion of expressionism, overlapping planes of cubism, and surrealistic fascination with grotesque ... subject matter, Picasso meant it to be an unforgettable attack on "brutality and darkness" 25. Igor Stravinsky - (1882-1971); wrote ballet, The ...

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... Einstein's theory of relativity, and other technological innovations suggested that our visual experience no longer corresponded with science's view of the world. This is first seen in the work of Pablo Picasso in the movement he and Georges Braque started called Cubism from around 1908 to 1917. Cubist paintings create an ambiguous sense of space through geometric shapes that flatten and simplify ... . . Art historians generally consider cubism to have been the most influential art movement of the first half of the 20th century. This brought us works such as works like the Picasso's "The...

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... may be. With the creation of Adobe PhotoShop, collages have become the leading method of creating corporate and product logos, designs for billboards, packaging and even common newsletters. Just as Pablo Picasso and Juan Gris did, designers who use PhotoShop gather single images and layer them on top and around each other on one single canvas to create a composition which incorporates many ... ...

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