"Wearing a simple white shirt, dark pants, and carrying two shopping bags," he blocked a column of a Chinese military tank (Dunleavy). The Tank Man, known as the "Unknown Rebel," emerged into the global media spotlight after the violent crackdown (Iyer). This incident was a series of protests in Beijing, China, 1989, led by "university students, intellectuals, and workers" (Ray). These demonstrations aimed to seek "democratic, political, social, economic and other reforms" and garnered widespread global attention (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica). The protests escalated from a scale of "100,000" students to "1 million" people participating (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica). Ultimately, the tragic incident culminated in "Chinese soldiers and police storming Tiananmen Square, firing live rounds into the crowd" (History.com Editors), resulting in "hundreds to thousands of protesters being killed&quo
When I was a child, one of the many world-famous paintings I loved featured melting clocks, which left a deep impression on me, though I never knew the artist's name. At the end of June this year, my wife and I had the fortune to visit the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, where I was astonished to realize that the masterpiece I had long admired was created by this very artist. Dalí, along with Picasso and Miró, is considered one of the three great Spanish artists of the 20th century. He was a surrealist painter. Throughout the exhibition, I could clearly see the artist’s obsession and dedication to his craft, as well as the evolution of his style across different periods. First, I visited Dalí's later works, mostly created between the 1960s and 1970s. Most of these pieces are surrealist works created using etching or lithography. The primary motivation for using printmaking techniques was their reproducibility. It is evident that in his later years, Dalí preferred printmaking as