20th+Century+Art+1910-1960s

=Pablo Picasso 1881-1973 =
 * “Painting is stronger than me; it makes me do its bidding.”
 * “The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?”
 * Diego Rivera (husband of Frida Kahlo) is quoted as saying “I never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso”
 * Probably one of the greatest to ever live...like watching numerous artists work...a renaissance man in terms of art, sculpture, prints, paintings, set designs and collage
 * His and style kept evolving

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=Marcel Duchamp =

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= = =The Surrealists =

Rene Magritte

 * Belgium Surrealist
 * His work challenges observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality
 * “Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.”
 * mother’s suicide influences his work
 * movement between reality and illusion

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=Salvador Dali = @http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/surrealism-manray.html media type="youtube" key="HUZDPWLTZ0g" height="315" width="420"
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Spanish artist, revered Picasso
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">“People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.”
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">“When I paint, the sea roars. The others splash about in the bath.”
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">at 5, Dalí was taken to brother's grave told by parents he was his brother's reincarnation, he came to believe. "...[we] resembled each other like two drops of water, but we had different reflections."
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">worked in Paris,
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">In 1929 met Gala, future wife
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Symbolism in his works
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">ants= death, decay, and immense sexual desire;
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">the snail =the human head (he saw a snail on a bicycle outside Freud's house when he first met Sigmund Freud);
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">locusts = waste and fear.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">He connects the egg to the prenatal and intra-uterine, thus using it to symbolize hope and love, birth
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">elephants=distortion in space", "its spindly legs contrasting the idea of weightlessness with structure."

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 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mexican Artist
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Married to Diego Rivera
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">suffered much physical pain and difficulty through her life
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">communist

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