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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.

Tuan, Yi-Fu. "Realism and Fantasy in Art, History, and Geography." Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 80.3 (1990): 435-446. Taylor & Francis, Ltd. on behalf of the Association of American Geographer. Web. 8 Nov. 2010 This article focuses on the significance of fantasy and reality. It is important for everyone to have hopes and dreams in order to eliminate the feeling of being trapped and restricted your whole life. Art can incline the imagination in our crucial society. It expands our interpretations of life as we know it. History gives us facts as well as myths that shape the way we think and learn today. The past provides legends and myths along with cultural traditions. Geography provides us with a universal reality. Geography would be dull without imagination and fantasies. Geography is compared to art and history while focusing on a surreal reality.

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.

Fawcett, Hilary. "Fashioning The Second Wave: Issues across Generations." Studies in the Literary Imagination. March 1975-2010. Hilary Fawcett discusses fashion and how it effected women rights. The styles of the nineteen-seventies greatly influenced the women's rights movement. Fawcett also explores the connection between fashion to how women are percieved; she describes the fashion of her generation in the 1960s and 1970s, to the style and fashion of young girls now. This article will help me describe styles from the seventies and compare them to styles today. It will also help me explain the amount of respect clothing can give off to the public, when women are wearing different trends.

Paris, Václav. "On Surrealism and the Art of Crime: Considered as One of the Fine Starts." Journal of Modern Literature 33.4 (2010), 190-197. This article focuses on a specific type of surrealism, known as Bretonian surrealism. It is known to have a new outlook of evidence within every piece. It tries to pin point "crime" within surreal art by emphasizing its unique aspects. He describes surrealism as a liberating and fascinating collage. Surrealism may bring "crime" because it dramatizes our senses of realism and makes us want to keep exploring for irrational experiences. The art portrays this sense of crime because it messes with our interpretation of what is real and what is not. The impossible suddenly seems possible. Surrealism has shaped modern art because of it's label as "the Art of Crime." It has shaped the way modern artists imagine and create their work by displaying its own surreal way of life. It may be viewed as bizarre, mesmerizing, or even illusory.

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.

"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.