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Artists I explored.
Salvador Dali and M. C. Escher.
Salvador Dali
I explored about Salvador Dali. Dali was a Spanish artist who is well known for his art in surrealism, which means above realism.
Some of his well-known paintings are, “The Persistence of Memory”, “Swans Reflecting Elephants”, “The Burning Giraffe”, "The Elephants" and “Galatea of the Spheres”.
His paintings are like dreams and make little sense. They can be shocking, interesting, beautiful or wired.
This is my version of Dali’s “The Elephants" painting.
This is my version of Dali’s “The Persistence of Memory” painting.
M. C. Escher
I also explored M. C. Escher. He was a Dutch graphic artist who is well-known for his bizarre optical effect artwork and tessellated ( like tiles) drawings. Sometimes he is referred as the “father of modern tessellation”. His artworks are inspired my mathamatic. Some of his famous artworks are “The Day and Night”, “Drawing Hands”, “Reptiles”, “Ascending and Descending” and “Waterfall”.
This is my Rubin’s Vase that I drew inspired by Escher.
This is my tessellation paint I drew inspired by Escher.
Arts organisations I explored.
Ashmolean Museum in Oxford
Reading Museum
This is what I found out about arts organisations
During the Easter holiday, I visited Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. It is the perfect place to explore historic and modern artwork around the world.
Apart from the ancient sculptures, pottery and art from Rome, China, Egypt and India, it exhibits some invaluable artworks from famous artists such as Michel Angelo, Raphael, Leonardo Da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, Anthony Van Dyck and Samuel Palmer. It was interesting to see the defference of the art work in defferent parts of the world during different periods.
The museum provides a variety of tours and activities for families and young people, for example, The Royal drawing school for young people. Also it hosts art exhibitions of modern artists.
During the visit, there are lots of museum staff that you can get information from.
I also visited Reading Museum, which exhibited historic and artistic objects. My favourite was the full-size copy of the Bayeux Tapestry, which was 70 metres long long. There were some Roman Mosaic work, ceramic, Victorian and modern art work.
