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78Dali's Crucifixion - My Take
Dali's paintings make a great intro to surrealism and modern art. Look at this one. If not for the cubes, Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) would look, at first glance, like an old master's piece. Surrealism is...
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79Salvador Dali -- Paintings & Biography
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali y Domenech was born on May 11, 1904 in Catalonia, Spain nine months after his older brother, also named Salvador, died of gastroenteritis. At the age of 5, Dali's lawyer...
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71Dali's Christ of Saint John of the Cross - My Take
The 16th century Spanish mystic St John of the Cross had a vision that he had translated onto paper. He had drawn the crucixion from an unusual angle and when Salvador Dali saw this drawing, he was inspired....
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77Joan Miro Foundation - Great discovery during the Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona
After spending some time at the spectacular Swimming Games Olympic Venue set high above Barcelona with a terrific view of the entire city, we decided that we had to find a spot to cool off. It was not only...
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72Lowbrow Art, Get It While Its Cheap
Lowbrow art is a cross breed of the hot rod culture of the fifties, alternative comix of the sixties and seventies, punk culture of the eighties, and the underground culture of the last 20 years. It’s...
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69Dada - A hundred years of Counter Culture
Dada, an art movement created out of the fighting of the First World War, the begining of the Counter culture and anti-art movements.
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66Almost Worthless: A Look at Very Cheap Cinema
Let me make this clear: I am doing this out of love and curiosity. I love discount stores and I'm curious about the DVDs they sell. Every time I go to a 99 cent store, bodega, drugstore, or supermarket, the...
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61The horseman of death
Salvador Dali has painted "The Horseman of Death" in 1934. Dali put several of his painting in one, with a little changes. The rainbow and the clouds were in his earlier paintings "Le Soectre et le Fantome"....
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62The Visions of Remedios Varo: Greatness Overlooked
Remedios Varo (1908-1963) a visionary of the surrealist style of painting.Why has she flown under the radar and not been placed among the greats of this genre?...
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79How I found out I had a brain tumor
Even back when I was a child, I always knew there was something wrong with me. Whether that was true insight or just a self-fulfilling prophecy I do not know. All I do know is I remember the day I was told I...
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