Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali

Born on May 11, 1904, Salvador Dali he Domenech he would become one of the world’s most recognized surrealist artists. Raised by his lawyer/notary father and a mother who encouraged her artistic son, Dali grew up in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain, having been told by his parents that he was the reincarnation of his older brother, Salvador, who died just nine months before Dali’s birth.

Following the death of his mother to breast cancer in 1921, Dali moved to the student residences at the School of Fine Arts in Madrid. He spent several years studying there and then shortly before his graduation, he was expelled for declaring that no one on the faculty of the school was competent enough to examine him.

By 1931, Dali had collaborated on a short film with surrealist director Luis Bunuel; illustrated a book called “The Witches of Liers”, a poem written by his friend and classmate Carles Fages de Climent; met his muse and future wife Gala; and painted arguably his most famous work The Persistence of Memory. He had officially joined the surrealist group in Paris, and was hailed by the surrealist community of artists.

When Salvador Dali openly supported the regime of Francisco Franco following the Spanish Civil war, and showed interest in what he referred to as the “Hitler phenomenon”, he became somewhat of an outcast among his fellow artists. Many of his fellow surrealists referred to Dali in past tense, indicating their feeling that he was dead to them. He wrote prolifically during this time, and continued producing his art.

In 1940, Dali and Gala moved to the United States, and it was during this time that Dali reclaimed his Catholic faith. In 1942, Dali wrote his autobiography, “The Secret Life of Salvador Dali”. He asked an Italian monk to perform an exorcism on him in the late 1940’s, and in exchange for the exorcism, he presented the friar with a sculpture of Jesus Christ on the cross, which was not discovered until 2005. Although they had been married civilly in 1934, Dali and Gala were married in the Catholic Church in 1958.

In the late 1940’s, Dali and Gala returned to Spain. Dali continued a prolific career in art, being one of the first artists to use holography and taking great inspiration from his Catholic faith and the events of the day, including the bombing at Hiroshima. From this time period, two of Dali’s most famous works, Hallucinogenic Toreador and La Gare de Perpignan were created.

Dali’s work was used in advertising campaigns, most notably for Chupa Chups candy and Lanvin chocolates, and he became fascinated by DNA and the hypercube, which can be seen in some of his later work.

King Juan Carlos of Spain bestowed upon Dali the title Marquis of Pubol in 1982. By this time, Dali was seriously ill, having been given unprescribed medicine by his senile wife Gala. The medications damaged Dali’s nervous system and gave him Parkinson’s like tremors in his hands.

Gala died in 1982, leaving the stricken Dali devastated. He was brought back to Figueres in 1984 by friends who felt a deliberate dehydration of the artist and a fire in his bedroom were suicide attempts.

On January 23, 1989, Salvador Dali, known for his contributions not only to surrealism, but also to fashion, theatre, and photography, died from heart failure. He is buried in a crypt at his Teatro Museo de Figueres, just steps from his childhood home.
- ( http://www.surrealism.org/dali.html)

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A style of art and literature developed in the 20th century.
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Anti-racism P.S.A analysis

Racism, Stop it - Exclusion - Sandwich Secondary

The video is shown as a story of a girl being excluded at school. The main focus of this video is discrimination. The girl is being excluded, treated badly and everyone gives her mean looks and acts as if she is a circus freak; they point at her, laugh at her and talk about her. In the video the kids on the bus don't let her sit next to them and when she walks down the hall they point at her, make faces and make her cry.

Shots: This video uses facial expressions and close-ups a to set the tone. There is little or no use of effects, text and voice-overs. There are lots of close up shots on the different kids on the bus. There are a few wide shots, one of the kids in the hall giving her dirty looks and another of her walking down the hall to her locker.

Music: There is a creepy clip of music that runs through the entire video. The music help us see/imagine the thoughts going through the heads of the students who are discriminating upon the excluded girl.

At the end of the video we see the girl walk to her locker by her self, as she opens the locker door there is a mirror, through the mirror we can see that there are girls laughing at her in the background and we she the girl wipe her tears. This shot is a great shot, it gives the viewers a reality check and delivers the clear message to stop racism.

Racism. Stop it!

Hey guys !!

This week we are starting  our racism stop it video's, I'm very excited !

Can't wait to get filming. The video is for the 2009–2010 Racism. Stop It! National Video Competition. I'll be sure to keep everyone posted on my groups progress. Wish me luck !!!

Optical Toys

The Phenakistoscope

Today I visited a cool site that exhibited optical toys. My favourite optical Toy was the Phenakistoscope. "The phenakistoscope uses the persistence of motion principle to create an illusion of motion. Although this principle had been recognized by the Greek mathematician Euclid and later in experiments by Newton, it was not until 1829 that this principle became firmly established by Joseph Plateau.

The phenakistoscope consisted of two discs mounted on the same axis. The first disc had slots around the edge, and the second contained drawings of successive action, drawn around the disc in concentric circles. Unlike Faraday's Wheel, whose pair of discs spun in opposite directions, a phenakistoscope's discs spin together in the same direction. When viewed in a mirror through the first disc's slots, the pictures on the second disc will appear to move. "- Nov 11 2009,courses.ncssm

3:6:9 video !!!

3 : 6 : 9 Video

This is the video my group and I made for Our 3:6:9 video assignment.

In my group there was three of us; Good Boy, Tristin Girl and I.

We came to the decision, that we wanted to film the mannequin in our class room, first we dressed him in Good Boy's sweater and then went on to start filming. 

This is my first time making a video so there may be some errors.

Well I was extremely excited because it was my very first video!

Each of us shot tree shots, we all chose different angels of the mannequin to shoot and we began. I basically shot, 3 shots from this video, I did a chunk of editing (like choosing which clips go where and making the clips shorter /cutting people out of the background), helped choose a song for the footage and help figure out how to add the music to the video. It was a fun process and I'm excited to make another video and to improve my skills further !!!     

New Header !!!

HEY !!!

Hope you guys like the new header, if not let me know, I'm always open to suggestions. :D