Pop art

The name of the artist is Andy Warhol who is an American artist born in Pittsburgh, PA in 1928. He is one of the greatest artists in visual art movement known as pop art. Pop art is an art movement that emerged first in Britain and then in the United States. This artwork is called “ Campbell's Soup Cans” which is one of the artworks that made Warhol famous worldwide along with the other artwork called " Gold Marylin Monroe" . The style of this artwork is pop art which is based in modern popular culture and the mass media. This artwork consists of thirty-two canvases, each measuring 20 inches(51 cm) in height x 16 inches (41 cm) in width. Also, each consists of a painting of a Campbell's Soup Can. The cans at first seem like they all are identical, but looking at the artwork closer the cans are different, the color red where some are lighter, the other ones are darker, and each canvas corresponds to a different flavor. In addition, they were displayed together on shelves, like products in a grocery aisle. Andy Warhol once said about Campbell's Soup that he used to drink this soup for lunch every day for 20 years, so he made this artwork to show this since it was the same soup over and over again.   

Surrealism

The name of the artist is Salvador Dalí who was born on 1904 in Figueres, Spain. Salvador Dalí was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter. This artwork is called “ The Persistence of Memory" which symbolizes Dalí's theory of "softness" and " hardness" and it was made by Dalí during the year 1931. The style of this artwork is Surrealism which is a 20th-century avant-garde movement that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind. The goal of Surrealism in to liberate thought, language, and human experience from the oppressive boundaries of rationalism. Also, Surrealism was founded by the poet André Breton in Paris in 1924. Now in the artwork, the colors are very vivid, the soft watches are a symbol of relativity of space and time, the iconography refers to a dream that Dalí had experienced, and the clocks symbolize the passing time as one experiences in sleep. In addition, Salvador Dalí often described his paintings as "hand-painted dream photographs". The landscape he uses on this artwork and also in others are based on his seaside landscape on the cliffs in his home region of Catalonia, Spain.