Other+Artists+(Historical)

This page is for collecting the names, artworks, and other information about famous artists and art periods. Please be sure to add info only about well-known artists from before 1970. Be sure the images you choose are the most amazing ones, not just the first ones you found. Also be sure to cite your sources, and to cite yourself, for a grade! Remember to impress me by finding artful, creative and interesting ways to add content to this wiki!

[|See an old favorite of mine!] Maxfield Parrish: born 1870, died 1966. Famous for the use of rich luminous blues (Parrish blues) not easily achieved by others. His daughter Jean modeled for this painting just before she left for college. Jean also modeled in 7 other paintings for her father. She was an artist in her own right, and died in 2004.

=Surrealism=



Surrealism is an art movement that started in the 1920's and is part of the Modern Art Period. It evolved out of the post-impressionist movement partly in response to the ideas of Dada-ism and partly to the ideas of Sigmund Freud, the famous phsychologist. Freud studied the subconscious mind and popularized ideas about psychology and psychotherapy that gave rise to many of today's ideas and practices. The Surrealists were interested in the idea that dreams and dream symbolism could illuminate hidden meanings, and that our interior mindscapes or dreamscapes were just as important as subjects for painting as exterior landscapes might be. Famous surrealists tried to push their conscious thinking mind aside to paint from a direct stream originating in the subconscious. Some of the best know of these are Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Joan Miro and Yves Tanguy.

Dali and Escher Slideshow: