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Famous Artists Who Have Inspired Me

Abstract painting is generally understood to mean art that does not depict objects in the natural world, but instead uses color and form in a non-representational way. In the very early 20th century, the term was more often used to describe art, for example from the Cubist and Futurist Movement that depicts real forms in a simplified or rather reduced way—keeping only an illusion of the original natural subject. Such paintings were often claimed to capture something of the depicted objects' qualities rather than its external appearance. Some useful informative words to describe the subject matter are,"non-figurative art," "non-objective art," and "non-representational art."

Salvador Dali was a part of the Surrealist Movement I feel that he has influenced the creation of Abstract art work because of his involvement in the Surrealist Philosophy. The liberation of freeing ones mind is of vital importance to contemporary artists using Abstraction as an art form today. Surrealists used representational subject matter, but often reorganised and placed them in different contexts. This was a breakthrough in my opinion because before artists were fixated by painting only a direct copy of nature it its natural order. Dali for example began to use a type of self expression by reorganising his composition. Ordinary objects in a strange dreamlike contextual environment. This was one of the main steps forward from looking outwards at the natural world to looking inwards at our individual inner worlds. The artist's own subconscious individual expression. The Impressionists still expressed this natural order but were more interested in natures play of light when creating the illusion of depth and three dimensions. It was more of a curious search for the truth. In my opinion The Art World's answer to science! If we compare information about the two movements we can see the beginnings of a path towards contemporary art.

Salvador Dali

Nationality: Spanish Training: San Fernando School of Fine Arts, Madrid Movements: Cubist Dada, Surrealism
Famous works The Persistence of Memory (1931) Face of Mae West Which May Be Used as an Apartment, (1935) Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) (1936) Swans Reflecting Elephants (1937) Ballerina in a Death's Head (1939) The Temptation of St. Anthony (1946) Galatea of the Spheres (1952) Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity (1954)

American Impressionist Movement
Abstract Expressionist Movement
Modern Art Artist List
Picasso

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