You are being pro­vid­ed with a book chap­ter by chap­ter. I will request you to read the book for me after each chap­ter. After read­ing the chap­ter, 1. short­en the chap­ter to no less than 300 words and no more than 400 words. 2. Do not change the name, address, or any impor­tant nouns in the chap­ter. 3. Do not trans­late the orig­i­nal lan­guage. 4. Keep the same style as the orig­i­nal chap­ter, keep it con­sis­tent through­out the chap­ter. Your reply must com­ply with all four require­ments, or it’s invalid.
I will pro­vide the chap­ter now.

ARTISTIC INSPIRATION
 
 
�       Span­ish artist Sal­vador Dalí’s old­er broth­er died nine months before
he was born. The influ­ence of his death could be seen through­out
Dalí’s work, most notably in the 1963 paint­ing, Por­trait of My Dead
Broth­er.
 
�            The art of most pre-mod­ern soci­eties was inspired by reli­gion or
spe­cif­ic rulers. The artists before the Greeks remain over­whelm­ing­ly
anony­mous, mak­ing it even hard­er to guess their inspi­ra­tion.
 
�       Pablo Picasso’s 1937 paint­ing, Guer­ni­ca, is a cubist inter­pre­ta­tion of
the destruc­tion of the Basque town of Guer­ni­ca dur­ing the Span­ish
Civ­il War.
 
�       Van Gogh sure didn’t do it for the mon­ey. The only paint­ing Vin­cent
van Gogh ever sold before he com­mit­ted sui­cide in 1890 was The Red
Vine­yard Near Arles.
 
�            It’s dif­fi­cult to say when “art” exact­ly began, but humans in the
Upper Pale­olith­ic Peri­od (38,000–12,000 BCE) began depict­ing
scenes on cave walls, pos­si­bly inspired by their next meal.
 
�            Span­ish artist, Fran­cis­co Goya, was reject­ed by art school twice.
Goya then moved to Italy for sev­er­al years where he received
inspi­ra­tion and returned to Spain in 1775 to become one of the
great­est painters of his time.
 
�       When the Renais­sance began in Europe in the late 1300s, the artists
of the era were inspired by the artis­tic styles and the form of the
Greeks and Romans.
 
�       Philippe Starck’s ‘Juicy Salif’ is con­sid­ered by many to be an artis­tic
mas­ter­piece, even if it’s just an ordi­nary cit­rus ream­er. Star­ck remains
mum on how he came up with the idea or the name.
 
�            War served as the inspi­ra­tion for one of the true pho­to­graph­ic
mas­ter­pieces of his­to­ry, Rais­ing the Flag on Iwo Jima. The 1945
pho­to­graph tak­en by Joe Rosen­thal shows the moment six Marines
raised the Amer­i­can flag on Mount Surib­achi.
 
�       The La Pedr­era in Barcelona, Spain is a unique build­ing done in the
Mod­ernism architectural/art style of the ear­ly 1900s. Accord­ing to
some sources, the chim­neys gave George Lucas the idea for the
stormtroop­ers in the Star Wars fran­chise.
 
�            French artist Eugène Delacroix’s most famous work is Lib­er­ty
Lead­ing the Peo­ple (1830). The bare-breast­ed mas­ter­piece was
inspired by the July Rev­o­lu­tion of 1830, but it lat­er helped to inspire
the French Rev­o­lu­tion.
 
�       Impres­sion­ism was born in France in the late 1800s as a chal­lenge to
exist­ing artis­tic stan­dards. The style favored real scenes over the ide­al
and brushed col­ors over rigid lines.
 
�       The late per­for­mance artist Chris Bur­den claimed to find inspi­ra­tion
in mod­ern tele­vi­sion and vio­lence. His 1971, Shoot, con­sist­ed of him
being shot in the arm!
 
�            Porce­lain vas­es from the Chi­nese Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) are
worth a pret­ty pen­ny today, but they’re also one of the first exam­ples
of art for prof­it on a mas­sive scale. Many of the vas­es were export­ed
to Europe at the time.
 
�       Hor­ror movies and the super­nat­ur­al, in gen­er­al, have been the source
of mas­ter­pieces for quite some time. Tracey Snelling has used her
love of hor­ror to pro­duce sculp­tures that often con­vey a sense of
dread.
 
�       Amer­i­can artist Bob Ross reached an inter­na­tion­al audi­ence with his
The Joy of Paint­ing TV show from 1981 to 1994. Ross’s easy­go­ing
style has influ­enced mil­lions of peo­ple to pick up a paint­brush.
 
�            Pop Art is a style that began in the US and UK after World War II
that was influ­enced by images of mod­ern, cap­i­tal­is­tic West­ern cul­ture.
Andy Warhol was the best-known Pop artist.
 
�            Late 19th and ear­ly 20th cen­tu­ry French Impres­sion­ist, Paul Cézanne,
was quite open about what inspired him, stat­ing that “a work of art
that did not begin in emo­tion is not art.”
 
�            Luke Jer­ram is a British instal­la­tion artist who cre­ates images of
microbes, virus­es, and oth­er things we can’t see, which is iron­ic, or
not, since Jer­ram is col­or blind.
 
�       Life in ear­ly 20th cen­tu­ry Iowa is what inspired Grant Wood to become
a renowned artist. His most famous paint­ing, Amer­i­can Goth­ic, was a
por­trait of his sis­ter and their den­tist, meant to con­vey the spir­it of the
Mid­west.