Bauhaus
The Bauhaus is certainly the most influential movement in design in the last century. Actually, without the Bauhaus and its teachers and students, comprised of not only engineers or businessmen but also artists, we wouldn�t see the flat-roofed buildings, the smooth white Braun kitchen appliances, am....

Paul Klee 1879-1940
�As a young artist faced with the inevitable compromise involved in bringing an idea to life, [Paul] Klee once observed that a picture is created by virtue of destroying a better one� (Franciscono, ix). Klee's influential position among the great painters of the century was unique. He neither found....

Salvador Dali
Surrealism is a cultural, artistic, and intellectual movement oriented toward freeing the mind by emphasizing the critical and imaginative parts of the unconscious mind. In surrealism, these artists take everyday reality and incorporate it in a way that really gets the imaginative and unconscious pa....