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"The Grand Master of Surrealism Salvador Dalí." USA Today Magazine 133.2720 (2005): 34-41. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 1 Nov. 2010. This USA today magazine article provides imformation on the artistic works of Salvador Dali and his impact on surrealism. It also includes his artistic influences on his painting and the many exhibitions for his paintings.It talks about one exhibition in particular in which 150 of Dali's paintings were displayed along with his other works such as sculptures and writings. It was the largest grouping of his works ever. It also gives a good background and Bio of the artist.

"The Grand Master of Surrealism Salvador Dalí." USA Today Magazine 133.2720 (2005): 34-41. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. This review highlights of the works of Salvador Dali and the exhibitions where his artwork was presented. It describes his success as an artist during the mid 1900s. Also, it explains the importance Salvador Dali to other artists as pure inspiration.

Waldburg, Patrick. Surrealism. New York: Thames and Hudson Inc. 1997. Print Waldberg breaks down in his book where surrealism emerged from and who were the great artists of the movement. in his book he discusses the most famous book of the era. the book includes a copy of the surrealist manifesto which is key to understanding the movement. it also has brief bios of artists and a timelime on the history of the movement in the back of the book. i believe this is a good source because the author was a member of the movement himself and was said to be good friends with some of its most influential artists.

Gower Price, Charles. "Sources of American Styles in the Music of the Beatles." American Music 15.2 (1997) : 208-232. JSTOR. Web. 15 Nov. 2010. This article explores the American influences in the Beatles music. The band took in a range of influences from American mainstream pop and rock and roll musicians including: Bob Dylan and Elvis Presley. The Beatles first debuted in America on the Ed Sullivan Show in New York City. The article suggests that British rock derived from American music. The article provides information of the Beatles cover on artists such as: Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Chuck Berry, and Buddy Holly. It also includes quotes from Paul McCarthy and John Lennon on how they were inspired by these artists. With the combination of so many artists and genres of music, the Beatles were able to diversify their sound so that they can relate to all of their fans.

"How Van Gogh Influenced--and Was Influenced by--the Art of Drawing." USA Today Magazine 134.2728 (2006): 46-53. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 19 Nov. 2010. The article focuses on artists who influenced Van Gogh into starting to draw. He admired a few of them and began to draw. However, through his work he also inspired and influenced those same painters who inspired him to start. Overall, this article provides a strong base on why Van Gogh got started and what his work meant to other people. However, without those artists before him he would have never found his artistic style.

Elmaleh, Eliane. "American Pop Art and Political Engagement in the 1960's." European Journal of American Culture 22. (2003): 181-191. EBSCO. Web. 10 Nov. 2008. This article describes the Pop Art movement in America. Pop art in the United States is an artistic movement closely associated with the 1960's. Pop Art, to most Americans, is an artistic movement that is closely related to their own culture. This article looks into Pop Art's role in the American Culture.

Bell, Michael S. "Surrealism: An Alternative Approach: Veristic Attitudes in the Work and Writings of Contemporary Surrealists." Leonardo 17. 4 (1984): 247-252. The MIT Press. Web. 8 Nov. 2010 This article talks about how automatism (a form of ideas/conceptions) has been the main focus of surrealism and all the people in history involved with it since the 1940s. Many artists have chosen to stick to the latest and most common trends and end up writing their own philosophical views for others to focus on while observing the artistic movement. The words of surrealist artists can prove their true appreciation of their own work, but can be misunderstood with writings and literature pertaining to the artists'' work. It has been understood that surrealist work has been divided into three divisions: automatists, families of artistic content, and the fact that little research has been done to provide new facts about Surrealism. A new form of surrealist art that is discussed in this article is called veristic. Veristic is a form of representational art pertaining to images "beyond illusion." Miran Ahn has studied the dream-conception of Surrealism. She relates the unrealistic images of surreal art to contemporary paintings. She believes that some think surrealism is not worthy as a movement in art because of its imaginary images. Ahn believes that traditional contemporary art can be damaging to surrealism because it is seen as a insensible cliché.

"Introduction to the Artistic Style of Surrealism." ArtHistory.net. Web 9 Nov. 2010. This article discusses how Surrealism has progressed and captured Modern imagination and Art. Surrealism started from the work and culture of Salvador Dali. Other surrealists, such as Andre Breton, wanted to explore further through literature, poetry, and the human mind. Breton described wrote a novel and described Surrealism as "those two seemingly contradictory states, dream and reality, into a sort of absolute reality, of surreality." One of the main reason why Surrealism grew and has effected contemporary art is because it has captured attention in numerous countries such as Europe, the United States, South America, and Mexico. It brought a sense of excitement for artists because it broadened the typical view of life as we know it. It allowed artists to create works in which they only dreamed about. Another surrealist artist, Kahlo, was very passionate about her work. An example of her work was an image of herself in a hospital bed as a victim with glaring objects hovering over her. She wanted to show viewers the sad nature of hopelessness. Kahlo was a large influence for the Surrealist movement.

"Vincent Van Gogh." Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition (2010): 1. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. This article is a nice overview of Van Gogh's life. It talks about how his tragic life lead to very successful pieces of art. His personality and health problems made it hard for him to really be a part of society. After he figured out preaching was not the right profession, he turned to painting. Van Gogh had a strong passion for painting although he was barely recognized in his lifetime for his beautiful art work. His closest friend in life was his brother, Theo. He wrote Theo quite frequently dealing with his aspirations and conflicts. In the end Theo got married and Van Gogh committed suicide.

"Vincent Van Gogh." Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition (2010): 1. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 19 Nov. 2010. This encyclopedia source is able to provide much needed information on the background of Van Gogh. It gives great detail on the life of Van Gogh. The source also provides past artistic works of his. When writing this paper on Van Gogh and the postimpressionism era I will need to know about Van Gogh and his life. Also his relation to the artistic movement.

Lacayo, Richard. "PICASSO'S PROGENY." Time 168.16 (2006): 78-79. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. The article has several great qualities. The first being that it gives a chronology of some of his works. The best part about this article is that it shows his influence on other artists. More specifically speaking his cubism being an influence on different artists.

Harmon, Melissa Burdick. "Vincent Van Gogh: Blazing Genius, Tormented Soul." Biography 7.2 (2003): 84. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 19 Nov. 2010. This article highlights artist Van Gogh. It outlines his childhood, education and more. The article goes on to take a look at some of the work Van Gogh did throughout his career. It describes ho he developed his artistic ability in mediums including pencil and oil paints. Finally the article tells abut his close relationship with brother Theo and some of the psychological problems he faced.

"POSTIMPRESSIONISM." (n.d.): Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia. EBSCO. Web. 19 Nov. 2010. This source is able to provide a historical background of the postimpressionist artistic movement. The encyclopedia is a great place to start when trying to gain more knowledge about anything. The description they give about postimpressionism is both helpful and informative. This artistic style was used by Van Gogh. The movement took place during the last two decades of the 19th century.

McCarthy, David.  "Andy Warhol's Silver Elvises: Meaning through Context at the Ferus Gallery in 1963".  The Art Bulletin, vol. 88, No. 2 (2006): 354-372.  Print. This article focuses on Andy Warhol's influence across the country.  He had recently emerged as one of the most prominent pop artists from coast to coast.  It talks about his anticipation of the display of his second exhibition at the prominent Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles.  It also talks about how although he was an artist highly associated with particular style, each piece of his artwork held its own.

This review highlights the "high pitch" of the Surrealist movement in the 1930s and the 1940s. It incorporates multiple Surrealist artists, especially Salvador Dali. The author talks about the Surrealist exhibitions and their unique value that were considered to be "ideological spaces." It states that Dali was well-known artist, but eventually he became obsessed with commercialism. At this time period, society was based on consumerism and media advertisement that Dali got caught up in leading to his downfall.

scholarly. where is your MLA citation?

Menand, Louis. "TOP OF THE POPS." New Yorker 85.44 (2010): 56-65. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 15 Nov. 2010. This article focuses on the "top" pop artists.  It provides Andy Warhol's biography.  It discusses some of the most famous books written about him, and even his own book.  It also comments on several of his most famous pieces of art, including his famous Campbell's soup can painting.  Andy Warhol was a puzzling individual as well as artist; people are still trying to uncover why his art was not affected by the different economic times; people were continuing to pay more and more for his work, no matter what their economic status was at the time.

This is a review on the pop-art artist Roy Lichtenstein. The review starts out by saying that Roy Lichtenstein is one of the first people to have a massive exhibit while he is still alive, and one would think that his art would be amazing because of this (one critic in particular does not like his work and calls it dumb and awkward.) The author of this review goes on to tell us a little bit about Lichtenstein's life, his style and his artwork. She then talks about the art that Roy Lichtenstein creates, "it would seem quite dull if it were not for the jazzy images he has appropriated from a wide range of twentieth-century sources in both high and low art." This article is a good starting point about getting to know the artist and how his art is viewed. 

Clifford,James. "On Ethnographic Surrealism". 1981. JSTORE Internet Database, Web. 16 Nov. 2010. James Clifford runs down the history of surrealism in thos article. he gives descriptions on the influences of the artistic movement as well as the history that is taking place around it.he discusses where the movement is taking place between the wars. he also talks about some of the most influental artists of the period. Overall i would say that this is a very scholarly article that provides alot of background information that would be beneficial to writing a paper on the topic.

Danto, Arthur. "Andy Warhol." Yale University Press (2009): Ohiolink. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. Arthur Danto sees Andy Warhol as the "Artist of the second half of the 20th century," and the "artist laureate of the American soul." He describes how Andy Warhol drew/painted many symbols of post war America and describes Andy Warhol's work in two levels: "the level of fears and agonies, and the level of beauties. The level of plane crashes, suicides, accidents, executions; and the level of Marilyn, Liz, Jackie, Elvis, Jesus, radiant with glamor and celebrity." Warhol moved from commercial art to pop art. Danto explains how Warhol's art relieved anxiety in American society and culture."He was moved by the same things that his audience was moved by," states Danto.

Taylor, Joshua C. Futurism. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1961. Questia:Trusted Online Research. Cengage Learning, 2010. Web. 11 Nov. 2010. This book is about the art movement of Futurism and the background information of how it came to be. The book tells us about the goals Futurism wished to accomplish. It wanted to create new risky advancement in the art world and did just that. The major part of the book is its accomplishments through various artists. It takes a look at some of those major contributing artists of Futurism such as Umberto Boccioni. It analyses the Manifestos with and how it was the catalyst to the whole movement. This contains a good amount of valuable information that can be very helpful.

Kemp, Martin. "Dali's dimensions." Nature 391.6662 (1998): 27. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. This article describes Salvador Dali's usage of the fourth dimension in his artwork. It references other artists who were inspired by Dali and used this fourth dimension. In addition, it mentions other famous artists that were essential to modernism, like Dali.

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Charles, Marilyn, and Karen Telis. "Pattern as Inspiration and Mode of Communication in the Works of Van Gogh." American Journal of Psychoanalysis 69.3 (2009): 238-262. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 1 Nov. 2010. This articles is a close study of specific patterning in Van Gogh's drawings. It is able to provide new insight into patterns he uses. Due to a direct expression of nonverbal meaning. The article takes a look at his articulation of pattern through form, plus a close reading of the letters he wrote about the difficulties he encountered because of his unique vision. It concludes that Van Gogh's unique and personal perceptual style served his developmental needs. While also contributing to both his mental instability and his artistic greatness.

Charles, Marilyn, and Karen Telis. "Pattern as Inspiration and Mode of Communication in the Works of Van Gogh." \n American Journal of Psychoanalysis 69.3 (2009): 238-262. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 31 Oct. 2010. In "Pattern as Inspiration and Mode of Communication in the works of Van Gogh" it talks about how his black and white paintings still convey meaning. Van Gogh is an impressionist and has the talent of using line and shapes in order to evoke an emotional response. Van Gogh was interested in ideas rather than images, which inspired many of his pieces of work. The history of his life is shown and describes who he is and his work. In the beginning of his life Gogh did not know he wanted to be an artist, but later traveled and studied art.