Friday, December 12, 2008

Continental Philosophy

Surrealism Artists
Miró, Joan (1893-1983)@
Learn about Joan Miro, the Spanish sculptor, painter, and ceramist. Sites provides photo gallery, artwork images, and biography of the surrealist artist and painter of The Harlequin's Carnival.
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Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989)@
Find sites about Salvador Dali, the widely recognized surrealist painter, sculptor, and writer. Sites offer artwork images, photos, chronology, and biography of the painter of The Persistence of Memory.
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Kahlo, Frida (1907-1954)@
Find sites for Frida Kahlo, the Mexican painter who combined realism, symbolism, and surrealism to depict the indigenous culture of her country. Sites offer biography, career highlights, artwork images, bibliography, and articles about artist whose self-portraits expressed her physical pain through symbolism.
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Duchamp, Marcel (1887-1968)@
Read about Marcel Duchamp, the French surrealist painter whose work and ideas shaped the tastes of Western art world. Sites include biography, career overview, critiques, literary resources, museum collections, and articles about the fine art master who was also associated with the Dada movement in Paris and New York.
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Man Ray (1890-1976)@
Learn about Man Ray, the renowned American fashion and portrait photographer through sites featuring bio, career summary, artwork, image archives, and articles about the mulitfaceted photographer, artist, painter, filmmaker, poet, and philosopher who contributed to the Dada and surrealist movements.
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Miller, Lee (1907-1977)@
Learn about Lee Miller, the American surrealistic artist in fashion and fine art photography. Sites feature biography, career highlights, museum archives, and conservation efforts to save and publish the works of the acclaimed surrealist who was also a successful fashion model.
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Magritte, Rene (1898-1967)@
Read about Rene Magritte, the Belgian surrealist artist known for witty and amusing images. Sites include biography, career overview, research work, online exhibits, and downloadable images of the artist's work which subsequently influenced pop, minimalist, and conceptual art.
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Schwitters, Kurt (1887-1948)@
Read about Kurt Schwitters, the Dadaist German painter who also dabbled in constructivism, surrealism, and installation art. Sites offer biography, painting images, suggested readings, museum collections, image archives, and quotes of the 20th century's greatest master of collage.
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Ernst, Max (1891-1976)@
Explore sites for Max Ernst, the German Dadaist and surrealist artist who painted the controversial The Virgin Chastises the infant Jesus before Three Witnesses. Sites feature his biography, career highlights, image gallery, and museum archives.
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de Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978)@
Read about Giorgio de Chirico, often known as Népo, the pre-surrealist Greek-Italian painter. Sites include biography, career highlights, and musuem archives of the artist who founded the scuola metafisica art movement.
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Arp, Jean (Hans) (1887-1966)@
Discover Jean (Hans) Arp, the German-French sculptor, painter, and poet through sites featuring biography, artworks, suggested readings, book excerpts, museum collections, image archives, and photo portrait of the co-founder of Zurich Dada movement in 1916.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Masters/Arp__Jean__Hans___1887_1966_
Grosz, George (1893-1959)@
Learn about George Grosz, a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group. Sites include biography, timeline, career highlights, museum holdings, image gallery, and litreary resources for the political modernist famous for his savage caricatural drawings of Berlin life in 1920s.
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Picabia, Francis (1879-1953)@
Read about Francis Picabia, the French master of modern surrealist painting. Sites offer biography, career summary, museum collections, artwork archives, suggested readings, and bizarre quotes from one of the original members of the Dadaists of New York.
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Tanguy, Yves (1900-1955)@
Find sites about Yves Tanguy, the French surrealist painter whose paintings were mainly half marine and half lunar landscapes and amorphous objects. Sites offer biography, career summary, exhibitions, art images, and online resources for the painter and his typical nonrepresentational surrealism.
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Bellmer, Hans (1902-1975)@
Find sites for Hans Bellmer, the German surrealist painter and photographer who produced life-sized pubescent dolls in the mid '30s. Sites provide biography, historical information, museum collections, image archives, literary references, and collection of intaglio prints by the artist with an obsessional fetishist magic.
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Matta, Roberto (1911-2002)@
Learn about Roberto Matta, the Chilean artist whose surrealistic art attempted to represent and evoke the human psyche in visual form. Sites offer biography, career highlights, photo portrait, writings, musuem collections, image galleries, and reviews for the artwork by the abstract figurative painter.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Masters/Matta__Roberto__1911_2002_
Balthus [Count Balthasar Klossowski de Rola] (1908-2001)@
Find sites about Balthus, or Count Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, the esteemed Polish-French whose style combined pre-renaissance with surrealistic figures. Sites offer profile, art images, online resources, and reviews for the artist whose work influenced the writings of Emily Bronte and Lewis Carroll.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Masters/Balthus__Count_Balthasar_Klossowski_de_Rola___1908_2001_
Carrington, Leonora (b. 1917)@
Find sites about Leonara Carrington, the British-born Mexican novelist and surrealist painter. Sites include biography, painting images, museum collections, artwork images, as well as list of books and plays written by the rebellious artist who 'did not have time to be anyone's muse.'
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Masson, Andre (1896-1987)@
Learn about Andre Masson, the French Surrealist painter who employed automatic drawing in pen and ink. Sites offer biography, chronology, online resources, and examples of his art work which became an important influence on American abstract expressionists.
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Onslow Ford, Gordon (b. 1912)@
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