Salvador Dali

The piece that Salvador Dali made is called the Persistence of memory (1914). He used oil paints on the canvas. The size of this piece is 24Cm x 33Cm. this piece was made at the start in World War 1.  This piece show that the colours at the bottom is dark then get lighter. It show that the clocks show times and you can forget about it this show that

Francis Bacon

Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion c.1944 

The medium that Francis Bacon used is oil paint and pastel on all the three boards. This piece called triptych because it has 3 different boards and fitting it together. The size of the three studies for figures at the base if a crucifixion is 74Cm x 94Cm. This is painting was made in 1944 in London, around the same time when the World War 2 was about to ended.

Francis Bacon was born in October 28, 1909 in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. He lived in London. He died April 28, 1992, in Madrid, Spain. This is piece is a portrait because it is showing something. He think that this piece he was about Greek myth. The tittle tell you that it is three piece. The board is smooth making it easy to paint on. This painting was first exhibited in 1945.

The atmosphere in this piece makes me feel like it was the dark times in that in that time because of the war going on and they don’t know when the war is going to end.  

Giorgio De Chirico

Mystery and Melancholy of a street 1914

Giorgio De Chirico was born in July 10, 1888 in Volos, Greece. He died in November 20, 1978.

The colours in this piece show that it is warm and calm colours. The colour show that it is a sun set piece of work. The people in this piece look like they are trap in limbo because you can’t see their faces. It’s like a place where no one lives there no more. The techniques Giorgio de Chirico use is oil on the canvas and the surface of the painting is smooth. The movement of this painting is surrealism. When it was made was at the beginning of the First World War. The size of this painting is 85 x 69cm.

Giorgio De Chirico made this painting in 1914 in Paris, France. In this piece it show a little girl playing a hoop and you see someone else in the piece but you can’t see but their shadow. The painting is a landscape but the frame is portrait. The title show that it is a mystery you don’t know what going to happen. The artist is using oil paint.

The painting make the atmosphere feel like it is a peaceful place and the colour makes it calm and warm.

 

What artists did they influence?

Hokusai, he was born in Tokitarō, October 31, 1760 and died in May 10, 1849

Describe why you have chosen this particular artist. What do you like about their work?

I like his landscape work, it show the effect of the work. It something show how peaceful his work is.

How the subject and style compare with your own work?

I done his work before in secondary school looking at his work; The Great Wave off Kanagawa

What would you like to learn from studying the artists?

Making landscape look bad but looks peaceful

 

The False Mirror

Rene Magritte

Rene Magritte uses oil paint for this piece of work. He use dark and soft around the edges and made the middle part bright blue colour to show it is calm. This show that he want to make the viewer focus the middle part of the painting. The size of this paint is 54 cm x 81 cm

The person that made this piece of work is Rene Magritte. The painting of the false mirror was make in 1928 between the two world war one and two.

 

 

Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh was born in 30 March, 1853, Zundert (Dutch Village), Netherlands. He died in 29 July 1890; age 37; Auvers-Sur-Oise, France. He is known as a painter and drawer. Van Gogh drew and paint with watercolours. Van Gogh made many self-portraits in his life time, he been doing self-portraits 37 times between 1886 to 1889. In 1886 he went to Paris to join his brother Theo. In Paris he study Cormon. He was angry most of the time he was up all night long. He was in love with two people but they didn’t like him back. The way he died was that he shot himself. He was mad he act powerful; dramatic, lyrically rhythmic, imaginative, and emotional.