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Thomas Nast

Thomas Nast was born in Germany in 1840, and he moved to the United States at the age of six. Initially he used to do illustrations to support his family that was going through acute financial crisis. Nast started his work as an illustrator when he was 15. At that time he was working as an illustrator for a magazine called Leslie’s Weekly New. His earning was $4 a week. In the year1862, during Civil War, he took a job of a war reporter in Harper’s Weekly Magazine.

Thomas Nast stereotypes the Irish as

unmixable in America's melting pot. 1889 For reporting the ...

Dali's Bio

Salvador Dali, also known as Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali y Domenech is a reputable Spanish and he is perhaps well known for his artistic works such as the Persistence of Memory and the painting of melting clocks. On May 11, 1904, Dali was born in Figueres, Spain. Since his early age, he has been encouraged to practice the art and in the 1920s, he decided to travel to Paris where he interacted with reputable artists such as Miro, Magritte, and Picasso (Ranker, Sec.1). The interaction with these artists influenced him to develop his initial Surrealist phase. However, he was ...

Abstract

Shel Silverstein is an author, artist, playwright and a song writer who started writing children’s books in 1963. He was born in 1930, in Chicago, and in 1999, in key West, Florida from a heart attack. Silverstein has served as a soldier in the US Army, Korea, and Japan in the 1950s. After he left the army, he focused on writing children’s books, poems, songs, and even plays. Nonetheless, shel Silverstein is renowned for being the best writer for children’s books. An example of his books is A Giraffe and a Half which is an interesting children’s book. It ...

Art has evolved over the centuries and great artists have been involved in art work producing inspiring and beautiful paintings, illustrations, sculptures and other works which have had a tremendous effect on the present day artists. Artists were and are inspired by what happens in society and want to put into illustrative works which can be understood by users as well as convey a message or entertain the reader. Many artists defined an era during their lifetime and some had tremendous Impact in society and their works can be felt today. This paper seeks to highlight some of works by great ...

The primary source is a political cartoon that appeared in an 1864 newspaper on December 1. It was done by Frank Leslie, and appeared in the Illustrated Newspaper, The Budget Fun. During this time, the United States of America was popularly known by the nickname Columbia. In this cartoon, Columbia is given the choice of having the United States under the leadership of one of the two presidential candidates. It is the election year, and Americans will soon decide the fate of their nation by choosing their president. Columbia must make a decision on whether to go through the “Abyss ...

Donna Barstow, a political cartoonist who draws for publications such as Psychology Today, and who claims to draw for The New Yorker and other such publications, has a very unique yet impenetrable style. In her cartoons "Arnold as Baby-daddy for Father's Day" and "Nobody is Born a Conservative," a strange amalgam of technique, style and depiction of humor is used to attempt at political discourse. However, it must be ultimately stated that her cartoons are devoid of clear message, crudely drawn, and obtuse to the point of uselessness. These two cartoons, after careful analysis, seem to attempt at analysis and statement but instead ...