Modern Masters Salvador Dali

You should know the drill by now, here are some questions I answered on the documentary nestled cosily under this paragraph.

 

1 What year was Salvador Dali born? In 1904.

2 What nationality was Dali? He was Spanish.

3 What age does he go to Madrid to study Fine Art? When he was 18 years old.

4 Did he complete his studies? No, he was expelled for saying that none of his teachers was good enough to examine his work.

5 Discovering what changed Dali’s life? The surrealism art movement.

6 Who started the art movement that Dali is associated with? The French poet Andre Breton.

7 What was the movement response to? The devastations of the 1st world war.

8 What are the main themes of surrealism? Getting in contact with the unconscious mind.

9 What themes were on the 23-year-old Dali’s mind? Death and sex.

10 What is the paranoiac-critical method? It is a technique based on Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theories, that is supposed to extract the strange visions from his deep, hidden psyche, that he hoped would fuel his art.

11 What film did Dali make in 1929 with Luis Buñuel? Un Chien Andalou, which translates to “An Andalusian Dog”.

12 What year did Dali meet his wife? In the summer of 1929.

13 Who was the British patron of Dali and surrealism? Edward James.

14 What year was The Persistence of memory painting first shown in New York? In the year 1932.

15 How much was it originally bought for? $250.

16 When did the artist Jeff Koons meet Dali? When he was a teenager.

17 How much was the skull sculpture (For the Love of God) by Damien Hirst on sale for? £50,000,000.

18 After being dismissed by the Surrealists where did Dali head for? Hollywood, which is sometimes suitably known as “the dream factory”.

19 What year did Dali work on the Alfred Hitchcock film Spellbound? 1944.

20 What sequence did he design? The dream sequences.

21 Who else did Dali work with? Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck.

22 What lollypop did Dali design the logo for? Chupa Chups.

23 What year did Dalí Theatre and Museum open? 28th of September, 1974.

24 What year did Dali die? In 1989.

 

 

Two of The Terms Used In The Documentary

 

Avant-garde

The avant-gardes are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society. It may be characterized by nontraditional, aesthetic innovation and initial unacceptability, and it may offer a critique of the relationship between producer and consumer.

 

Juxtaposition

A juxtaposition is an act or instance of placing two elements close together or side by side. This is often done in order to compare/contrast the two, to show similarities or differences.

 

 

Some Other Surrealist Artists

Giorgio de Chirico

Giorgio de Chirico was an Italian artist and writer born in Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the Scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. His most well-known works often feature Roman arcades, long shadows, mannequins, trains, and illogical perspective.

 

René Magritte

René François Ghislain Magritte was a Belgian Surrealist artist. He became well known for creating a number of witty and thought-provoking images. Often depicting ordinary objects in an unusual context, his work is known for challenging observers’ preconditioned perceptions of reality.

 

Research

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juxtaposition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant-garde

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_Chien_Andalou

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Magritte

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_de_Chirico

Modern Masters Andy Warhol

Again, these are a bunch of questions that I answered in the following documentary.

 

 

1 How much did one of Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe works of art sell for? $28,000,000.

2 How many versions are there? More than 20.

3 What prediction did he make about being famous in the future? That everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

4 Where was he born? Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, America.

5 What year was he born? In 1928.

6 How did Warhol describe his childhood home? The most terrible place he’d ever been.

7 What were the two childhood passions of Andy Warhol? Catholic religion and the movie stars in his magazines.

8 What age did Warhol move to New York City? He was 21 years old.

9 How much money did he have? $200.

10 How much did he sale his first illustrations for? $25.

11 What did people call him? Raggedy Andy.

12 What was Andy Warhol obsessed with when he looked around? The 50s consumer revolution.

13 What art movement is Warhol associated with? Pop art.

14 When did Warhol finally break into the fine art world with an exhibition? A solo exhibition in 1962.

15 What was the name of his studio? The Silver Factory.

16 What industrial technique did Warhol discover in the early 1960s? Silkscreen printing.

17 What were Warhol’s favourite themes? Death and celebrity.

18 Warhol said that shopping stores would become the new what? Museums.

19 What phrase did Warhol invent to describe very famous people? Superstar.

20 What happened to Warhol in June 1968? He was shot by Valerie Jean Solanas, who Andy had actually used in one of his films. She was an immensely unstable feminist, and the founder, and only member of SCUM.

21 What does SCUM stand for? Society For Cutting Up Men.

22 How much did Warhol’s Green Car Crash work of art sell for? $72,000,000

23 How did Warhol describe good business? He said that it was the best art.

24 What age did Warhol die? He was 58 years old.

25 What did he die of? A routine operation.

 

 

Here’s a list of some of the people that were mentioned in the documentary.

 

Mick Jagger

Sir Michael Philip Jagger is an English singer, songwriter, actor, and film producer who gained worldwide fame as the lead singer and one of the founder members of the Rolling Stones.

Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong, also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the People’s Republic of China, which he ruled as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.

Jackie Onassis

Jacqueline Lee Kennedy Onassis was First Lady of the United States during the presidency of John F. Kennedy and was regarded then and afterwards as an international icon of style and culture.

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, model, and singer. Famous for playing comic “blonde bombshell” characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s and was emblematic of the era’s changing attitudes towards sexuality.

Paris Hilton

Paris Whitney Hilton is an American media personality, businesswoman, socialite, model, singer, actress, fashion designer and DJ. Hilton is a great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton, the founder of Hilton Hotels.

Denis Hopper

Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker, photographer, and artist. He attended the Actors Studio, made his first television appearance in 1954, and soon after appeared alongside James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause, and Giant.