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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."

Fricke, David. "Green Day Fights On. (Cover story)." Rolling Stone 1079 (2009): 46-53. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 30 Oct. 2010. This article describes how Green Day the bad has contiuned their punk tradition from 1994 to current day. It describes the bands mood before a concert in 2009. The article also describes Billie Joe Armstong, the bands lead singer. Billy is very close to his family and has grown from1994 but still remains true to his punk roots. The live shows still gives him the "rush" he had the first time he stepped on stage.

Riley II, Charles A. "Brush with Destiny Vincent van Gogh." WE Magazine 3.1 (1999): 108. MasterFILE Premier. EBSCO. Web. 19 Nov. 2010. This article is able to pay tribute to painter Vincent Van Gogh's life. It explains his death and how it happened. The article also covers his paintings and how he rose to fame. One of his most famous exhibitions titled `Van Goghs'; Contemplation on Van Gogh's disability; Family and career background, was a great spring board. Overall Van Gogh's life was very interesting and this article provides a lot of information on all of it.

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.