Surrealism – An Unusual Type of Art

The Persistence of Memory by Lluís Ribes Mateu, (CC BY-NC 2.0), via Flickr Video: Surrealism Best known for its comparison of uncommon things, Surrealism consisted of uncomfortable, illogical scenes and creatures made from everyday objects, painted in photo-like detail, with the main idea being the merging of the awake and the dream world, …

Cubism – A Pablo Picasso Specialty

Pablo Picasso, 1910, Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier), Public Domain (CC0), via Wikipedia Video: Cubism In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up, and put back together in an abstracted (not realistic)  form—instead of showing objects from one view, the artist presents the subject from a bunch of different viewpoints to …