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The book on surrealism shows an organized look at some of the most popular paintings from the period. these are made easy to understand by the author who provides background infomation on each painting. these paintings are also presented in alphebitical order and occur in a timeline so you can see when they were painted. there is a breif introduction on the history of the movement in the beginning of the book. i think this is a good source because it describes what the symbolism of these famous paintings mean.

Kimmelman, Michael. "At the Met With: Roy Lichtenstein; Disciple Of Color And Line, Master Of Irony." New York Times 31 Mar. 1995: 1. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 9 Nov. 2010. This is an interview that was conducted between Mr. Roy Lichtenstein, and Mr. Michael Kimmelman. This is a good article to have because it gives actual quotes from Roy Lichtenstein. This article talks about how Lichtenstein really shocked the art world with his paintings. It talks about the different Eras that he had painted in. The 70's focusing on reinterpretations of famous paintings, and the 80's and 90's bringing in bright colors and new brush-strokes. The article holds a lot of nice lines from Lichtenstein that talk about how he feels his art is portrayed (I don't think storytelling has anything to do with modern painting or with my paintings at least.) The article will help to put an actual feel for who Roy Lichtenstein was in my paper.

Mundy, Jennifer. "SURREALISM AND PAINTING: DESCRIBING THE IMAGINARY." Art History 10.4 (1987): 492. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. Mundy describes some popular features of surrealist painting. She talks in detail about how the painters of the period were influnced and how the painted their works. Breton's manifesto is also described in her writing. The article is long, detailed, and descriptive. It is a good source to use because it discusses what it means to be surreal in surrealist wirting and paintings.

Andreae, Christopher. "Van Gogh's fervent flowers." Christian Science Monitor 18 Aug. 1999: 18. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. Van Gogh painted his Irises while staying at the insane asylum in Arles. One reason Van Gogh sticks out from other artist is the fact that he paints the world the way he sees it. His creative imagination shines through in his paintings. He painted the Irises during the final years of his life. This article will help me in writing my paper due to the fact that I can compare his Irises to some of his earlier work.

Byrne, L. "Picasso, Guernica, History." Art Book 14.3 (2007): OhioLINK: Electronic Journal Center. Web. 1 November 2010. Byrne reviews a work by Fransisco Calvo Serraller and Jorge Semprun on Picasso's Guernica. The painting was painted for the Spanish Pavilion at the International Exhibition in Paris in 1937. Guernica is a summary of the wars of the past one hundred years (Byrne 13). Serraller's thinks that the painting is one of the greatest paintings of all time because it was created out of "historical tradition" genius which he believed only Picasso and a select few were capable of.

Ball, Philip. "The hidden van Gogh." Nature 454.7204 (2008): 563. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 19 Nov. 2010. This article focuses on one specific painting by Van Gogh. The painting has a hidden woman's head which was revealed through X-ray technology. The materials that Van Gogh uses were mapped in the hidden paint layer. These materials were what brought about the hidden image. The article provides a picture of the painting and the hidden picture.

Furnham, Adrian, and John Walker.  "Personality and Judgements of Abstract, Pop Art, and Representational Paintings."  European Journal of Personality, vol. 15, issue 1 (2001): 57-72.  Web.  15 Nov. 2009. This article is an interesting study conducted by Adrian Furnham and John Walker to see "which personality variables are most predictive of judgments of particular types of painting" (Furnham, Walker 1).  They conducted this by having a totally of 124 people judge 24 pieces of art.  The artwork was abstract, pop art, or representational paintings.  This article gives insight in looking into Warhol's life; as his intentions in his work are often very hard for one to uncover.  

This article gives a look at how Picasso originally conveyed cubism. It talks about how he used photography to help develop his paintings. Some of his earlier paintings are discussed in the article. Most of this article revolves around Picasso's paintings staged in San Horta.

Buchanan, Mark. "Vincent had turbulence down to a fine art." New Scientist 191.2560 (2006): 17. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 14 Nov. 2010. In this article it compares Van Gogh's later work to his earlier work. It is clear that he was a disturbed individual. The darkness in his paintings represent his stage of being psychologically disturbed. Van Gogh's most famous painting is "Starry Night" and he actually painted that one in the insane asylum.

Meisler, Stanley. "For Joan Miro, poetry and painting were the same." Smithsonian 24.8 (1993): 62. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 17 Nov. 2010. this article from the Smithsonian is a good source and provides a good background of the life and works of the great surrealist painter Joan Miro. he was a very influental artist in the 1930s and 1940s. it provides a good idea of how miro view his own work and how much passion he had for painting.

MacNamidhe, Margaret. "Impression: Painting Quickly in France 1860-1890 (review)." Nineteenth Century French Studies 31.3-4 (2003), 352-354. This article by Margret MacNamidhe reviews the style of Impression paintings. In particular, they look at the quickness of the brush and analyize it. For example, the author commented how painstakingly it took Monet to get the right atmospheric shades without blending the wrong colors together. She continued to explain how, through the ages of Monet's paintings, he developed this particular technique and one could notice with the crusting up of the paint in later works.

"René Magritte." Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition (2010): 1. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 17 Nov. 2010. this encyclopedia entry covers the basics of René Magritte's life and what the basis of his paintings were. This provides me with few details that i am going to use to describe some of his paintings in my other book sources.

Soth, Lauren. "Van Gogh's Agony." Art Bulletin 68.2 (1986): 301. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 14 Nov. 2010. According to Soth's interpretation of Starry Night, Van Gogh is trying to get the message across that he has lost his faith in the Catholic Church. The painting goes beyond reality and he uses his imagination to create his depiction of nature. The painting represents Van Gogh's modern art style.

"Guernica: Testimony of War." PBS: Treasures of the World. PBS. Web. 31 October 2010.\n\nThis article is a quick overview of how Pablo Picasso came to paint Guernica, where it was originally displayed, the bombing in Guernica, where it is housed, and how different countries reacted to the painting.

Dalrymple-Henderson, Linda. "The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art: Conclusion." Leonardo 17.3 (1984): 205-210. The MIT Press. Web. 3 Nov. 2010. This article first talks about the non-Euclidean geometries in art from 1900-1930. Non-Euclidean geometry has developed a unique change in mathematics, science, and philosophy. It seemed to clarify the affiliation between mathematics and observations in science. This type of geometry was used to depart from literature-related paintings. It focused on animated, multimedia, and specifically four-dimensional (instead of three-dimensional) paintings. Rice Pereira, an American painter, found the elements of hyperspace philosophy. This philosophy included the glowing works of art that can relate to a mystical action or experience one may have encountered. Language or words is considered unreliable in this art, whereas the four dimensional paintings can speak for themselves. The imagination and enthusiasm of surrealist artists has brought hope and new ideas (like four-dimensional paintings) to modern art.

This is a short encyclopedia entry. It tells you the basic facts about Roy Liechtenstein, and is a good starting point for a paper. Its says that he was a "master of pop art," and based his art off of comic strips. He had very different styles of art through the different decades. In the 70's he concentrated on reinterpretations of well-known paintings. In the 80's and 90's he he focused on brush strokes and painting on large canvases.

Boeck, W., Jaime Sabartes. Picasso. New York and Amsterdam: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1955. Print. The figures that Picasso depicted in Guernica are discussed. Picasso drew several forms of each character in the painting before he began work on the Guernica that is seen today. Each figure Picasso chose to present in his final work of Guernica has a meaning and was painted in the most meaningful position. There are very subtle details that give significant meaning to Guernica. In the picture there are three woman, a suffering soldier, a bull, a horse, a lamp and bird.

Stimson, Blake.  "Andy Warhol's Red Beard".  The Art Bulletin, vol. 83, No. 3 (Sep., 2001): 527-547. Print.\n\nThis book is about Andy Warhol's change of style between 1948 and 1949.  Warhol painted as he wished, but when challenged by his art professors, he began to take their advice and paint as they advised.  During Warhol's last year at the Carnegie Institute of Technology was when he took their criticism seriously and instigated this change in his art.

Potter, Polyxeni. "Sometimes the naked taste of potato reminds me of being poor.". (Cover story)." Emerging Infectious Diseases 15.6 (2009): 1001-1002. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 17 Nov. 2010. Potato Eaters is one of Van Gogh's more famous pieces. This article interprets what the painting means. It was also one of Van Gogh's first major pieces. This painting is of peasant family sitting around a dinner table eating potatoes. Van Gogh relates to the poor very weel, because believe it or not while he was alive he was not financially stable. He uses dark colors and their is one light of a lamp, which is supposed to, "explore the relationship between the cycles of nature and rural life."

Leighten, Patricia. "Picasso's Collages and the Threat of War, 1912-13." Art Bulletin 67.4 (1985): 653. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. This article discusses Picasso's reasons for utilizing cubism in his collages. It also gives great perspective of the meaning of some of his collages. Picasso's paintings were affected by his surroundings. In this article it talks about some of that. Such as how the War influenced some of his paintings.