Thursday, February 9, 2012

Artist from 1910-1950


Salvatore Dali is best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. Salvatore Dalí's expansive artistic collection includes film, sculpture, and photography. The Basket of Bread, painted in 1926, is a painting that depicts four pieces of bread with butter on them sitting in a basket. The painting resides at the Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Fl.


Diego Rivera began drawing when he was only three, just a year after his twin brother's death. He had been caught drawing on the walls. His parents, installed chalkboards and canvas on the walls for him to make use. The kid, painted by Diego Rivera is one of my favorite pieces by him, next to the skeleton is Frida Kahlo, his wife, and himself in the painting.


Frida Kahlo is best known for her self-portraits. She once said, "I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best." Frida Kahlo's work is remembered for its "pain and passion", and its intense, vibrant colors. Her work has been celebrated in Mexico as emblematic of national and indigenous tradition, and by feminists for its uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form. I enjoy her piece “The Suicide of Dorothy Hale” which is an oil painting from 1939. It is on display at the Phoenix Art Museum in Phoenix Arizona.

1 comment:

  1. An interesting collection.. All with a Spanish/Mexican flair.
    The still life from Dali is interesting, different from the work that comes later.
    Kahlo is so different and her relationship with Rivera, make sure you read up on their lives
    10points

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