Essays on Artworks

Part I – Selection of the Art Object: The work I have selected for this portion of the course requirement is Salvador Dali’s “Persistence of Memory” Part II – Identification of the Art Object: Please list the following information regarding your newly chosen work of art: Title of the Work: Persistence of Memory Artist/School: Salvador...

Introduction The twentieth century is known for being a time of wars. The First and Second World War, the Cold War, the Spanish Civil War,… From always, any conflict is accompanied of an artistic movement, with a representative entrusted of reflecting the feelings or experiences of this moment. Delacroix during the French revolution, Goya with...

Guernica is a huge painting on a canvas and it stood at 349.3 cm (length) × 776.6 cm (width). Surprisingly it only took Picasso just a little over three weeks to produce this enormous art piece. Guernica got its name from the town of Guernica that was bombed during the Spanish Civil War, Picasso created...

Can sorrow or agony be broken down into their base code to be reproduced as a single image? If they can, then Pablo Picasso’s Guernica comes as close as any representation could. The cubist mural depicts the Spanish town of Guernica in the midst of chaos after it was viciously bombed by German and Italian...

Time is a construct, there are never-ending timelines of events occurring at the exact moment in time, therefore leaving a feeling of hopelessness to all that attempt to defy it. The Persistence of Memory, by Salvador Dali, symbolizes the battle between time and memories. Horrible memories the mind wishes to forget, along with the beautiful...

Art has been a part of our society forever. Anywhere from expensive to cheap or modern-day to old classics, we are all able to enjoy great pieces of art and what they represent. Art has a beauty within it that it can be interpreted in many different ways, it all depends on the person. The...

Mona Lisa vs Relic 12 The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci and Relic 12 by Hung Liu are both paintings that are known amongst the masses by their beautiful skilled detail and significant veiled messages. Although the Mona Lisa is a piece made in the Renaissance period, and Relic 12 is a more recent...

Mona Lisa Sometime between 1503 and 1519, Leonardo Da Vinci painted a masterpiece called the Mona Lisa. The painting is one of the Renaissance’s greatest paintings. The Mona Lisa is an oil-painted portrait of a woman sitting down in front of a landscape and its dimensions are 30in x 21in. The Mona Lisa is a...

The artwork that I studied is produced by Salvador Dali which is called Persistence of Memory made in 1931. Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was in a Surrealist group in 1929. Salvador Dali’s painting skills were credited to the influence of Renaissance masters, but his piece of Persistence of Memory was influenced by Bosch’s Garden of Earthly...