Surrealists were a group of painters and artists that drew a large amount of inspiration from the potent impact from dreams. In the beginning, before this artistic movement was fully embraced, many c...
Surrealism is the art movement that closely followed the heels of cubism. This art movement is characterized by surreal images, hence the name surrealism. Art form under the influence of surrealism ha...
Long ago the Montmartre used to be famous not for Bohemian cafes and cabarets, cancan and polka, and even not for tourist restaurants with disgusting food. It used to be known for...nunneries. The nam...
Surrealism in photography was one of the major revolutionary changes in the evolution of photography. Rather than art, photography was reviewed as a copying effort. But, in fact surrealism was a break...
Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently declared Quebec a "nation within Canada". We are supposed to be cool with this because changing political realities, according to the Tories, require thi...
"What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism."
-Octavio Paz
The Modern Art movements can be said to have begun in the mid 19th century. Up until this point, the arti...
Joan Miró, the legendary Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramist, was born in Barcelona in 1893. Miró's early life was nothing out of the ordinary, at age 14 he enrolled in the "Escuela Superior de...
