Comparing Art of Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte and Michael Parkes




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Surrealism
Art App written assignment March 25, 2019
For this week's assignment: Write a one-page essay comparing the art of Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte and Michael Parkes. 1 Explain how their work is similar. 2. Explain how their work is different 3 Write about what you like and dislike about their work.


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Comparing Art of Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte and Michael Parkes
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Comparing Art of Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte and Michael Parkes
Salvador Dali is considered as the most popular representative of the surrealist movement founded in Paris. He was well-known for his wild art. One of the famous work of the Dali is “The Persistence of the memory”. Rene Magritte was also a surreal artist from Belgian. He was very well-known and was deeply engaged with literature (Bauduin, 2017). His famous drawings were related to famous poets such as Paul Eluard. However, Michael Parkes is one of the leading realist and strong lithographer. His work is collected by many celebrities and by the famous galleries. His body of work stands for all ages.
Salvador Dali has used his moustache as his signature which became the most influential pieces in history (Stiassny, 2018). Magritte chose the banal man-made objects and then used it to paint in a realistic style. There was a sort of surrealistic effect created in the paintings of Magritte. However, the paintings of Dali were more dreamlike, for example melting watches and morphing bodies. However, the technique of Michael Parkes is more than artistic than previous artists. His imagination is much less constricted. The art of Michael Parkes reminds us of a Victorian painter.
If we compare the work of Dali and Magritte, then I will prefer the work of Magritte because he is more realistic than Dali. Dali is a little bit showy and florid. However, he is a great technician and created a lot of amazing paintings, but they were less realistic. Moreover, the work Magritte gives a feeling of mystery. He used to turn a normal scene that makes you curious about our own personal perceptions of reality. Then comes Michael Parkes, who has changed the real meaning of surrealism. I love his skills and the textures he used to form such beautiful paintings.

References

Bauduin, T. M. (2017). Fantastic art, Barr, surrealism. Journal of Art Historiography, (17), 1-23.
Stiassny, N. (2018). Beyond the Local Discourse. Israel Studies, 23(2), 4.