1. Understanding the Artist

2. Emotional Art

3. Rene Magritte 1898 –1967 Belgian Surrealist artist ‘Art for me is not an end in itself, but a means of evoking that mystery’

4. Witty and thought-provoking images Challenges viewers perceptions of reality Ordinary objects in an unusual context Giving new meanings to familiar things evoke mystery poetic imagery contradiction ordinary objects in unfamiliar spaces reality and illusion

5. The Empire of light 1 950-1954

6. Le Beau Monde Oil on canvas 1962

7. Personal Values

8. Franz Marc 1880 –1916 German Painter & Printmaker Expressionist Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) movement

9. Characterized by bright primary colour Use of colour and futurist method futurism and cubism woodcut and lithography portrays animals, usually in natural settings Increasingly stark and abstract in nature stark simplicity profound sense of emotion BLUE used for masculinity & spirituality YELLOW represented feminine joy RED encased the sound of violence

10. Tiger 1912

11. The Fate of the Animals 1901

12. Die großen blauen Pferde (The Large Blue Horses) 1911

13. Salvador Dali 1904 –1989 Spanish Surrealist painter

14. striking and bizarre influence of Renaissance masters highly imaginative film, sculpture, and photography eccentric manner and attention-grabbing indulging in unusual and grandiose behaviour classical and modernist techniques accessing the subconscious extraordinary universe personal obsessions and fantasies

15. The Persistence of Memory Oil on canvas 1931

16. Theory of "softness" and "hardness", The soft watches are an unconscious symbol of the relativity of space and time. They are inspired not by the theory of relativity, but by the surrealist perception of a Camembert cheese melting in the sun The strange "monster" that Dalí used in several period pieces represented himself – an abstract form was a self-portrait, reappearing frequently in his work Dalí often used ants in his paintings as a symbol for death The fading figure in the middle of the picture, often appears in dreams where the dreamer cannot pinpoint the creature's exact form and composition The creature has one closed eye with several eyelashes, suggesting the creature is also in a dream state. It may refer to a dream that Dalí himself had experienced The clocks symbolize the passing of time as one experiences it in sleep. Dali uses images more likely to be found in dreams than in waking consciousness.

17. Swan Reflecting Elephants 1937

20. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1958 Mexico City Painter / self portraits "I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best”

21. Began painting after she was severely injured in a bus accident. Self portraits suggestions of pain Surrealist Graphic Personal Christian and Jewish themes are often depicted in her work symbolic portrayals of physical and psychological wounds She painted to occupy her time during her temporary illness Drawn from personal experiences, marriage / her miscarriages / numerous operations symbolic monkey portrayed as tender and protective symbols “I painted my own reality." Influenced by indigenous Mexican culture, Bright colours, dramatic symbolism and primitive style classic religious Mexican tradition with surrealism

23. What The Water Gave Me

25. Environmental Artist

26. Damien Hirst 1965 Young British Artist Contemporary British artist “I believe that art is more powerful than money”

27. Life DeathExistence Dead animals direct and challenging Beauty question our awareness and convictions glimmer of hope 4 important things in life fear, life, death, reason, faith, love, hate iconography of science and religion

28. ‘Mother and child, Divided’ Cow, formaldehyde, vitrine 1993

29. ‘For the Love of God’ Damien Hirst Human Skull, platinum, dimonds 2007 £50,000,000 8,601 diamonds £15,000,000 worth of diamonds Platinum human skull

30. “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the mind of Someone Living” Tiger shark, formaldehyde, vitrine 1991 £50,000

31. ‘a portrait of the artist touching the earth’ Richard Long 1945 British Landscape artist

32. Relationship with the landscape photographs, maps, drawings and sculptures lines or circles Gathers natural materials arranging objects concern for the planets condition Impermanence time, distance, geography and measurement action of walking in a natural landscape Circular outlines, circular spirals, solid circles and concentric rings geometric mobility, lightness and freedom. Simple creative acts of walking and marking place, locality, time, distance and measurement. raw materials and the human scale.

33. ‘Small White Pebble Circle’ Marbled pebbles 40 x 2000 x 2000 mm 1987 ‘the whole work should look balanced and circular’

34. ‘South Bank Circle’ Delabole slate 100 x 1997 x 1997 mm 1991

35. A LINE IN SCOTLAND CUL MOR 1981

36. WHITE RIVER LINE BRAZIL 1994

37. Andy Warhol 1928 - 1987 American Pop artist "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're so beautiful. Everything's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.”

38. relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement mass-produced images from American popular culture consumerism silkscreens, films, sculpture POP ART Fascination with Super-stars appreciation for intense Hollywood glamour Controversial artist comic, decorative, and whimsical open embrace of market culture Hollywood celebrities reproductions based on advertisements Bohemian

39. Campbell's Soup Cans 1962

40. Marilyn Silkscreen 1967

41. Brillo Soap Pads Box 1964 silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on wood

42. Sculptor British 1956 “I think it’s incredibly brave to be working with flowers and leaves and petals. But I have to: I can’t edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole.” Andy Goldsworthy

43. Ephemeral sculptures made from elements of nature, rocks, leaves, icicles brightly-coloured flowers, mud, pinecones, snow, stone, twigs, and thorns Intensity Each work grows, stays, decays looks into the heart of nature Explores and experiments The seasons and weather determine the materials Relies on what nature will give him natural materials Energy from nature

44. ‘Stone Egg’

45. ‘Yellow and Gold leaves around a hole’