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Surrealism: Whats it all about
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The Art Movement Surrealism originated in the late 1910s and early ’20s That used all forms of expression poetry, art etc convey their message the "unbridled imagination of the subconscious"
IDEAL MISTRESS I was delayed that afternoon because I had brushed the teeth of a pretty animal that I'm patiently taming. It's a chameleon. This endearing animal smoked, as usual, some cigarettes, then I left. I met her on the stairs. "I'm mauving," she told me, while I myself crystal at full sky I at her look that river towards me. Then it locks and, maîtresse! You pitcher pin so that at nice vase I sit down if the paths tombs. ........... And what then, the mirror yet! Mistress you black square, and if the clouds all at once forgotten, they mills in the ever present eternity. Robert Desnos, translated by Johannes Beilharz |
Surrealism was a means of reuniting conscious and unconscious realms of experience so completely that the world of dream and fantasy would be joined to the everyday rational world in “an absolute reality, a surreality.” Dali's most famous work of art is probably The Persistence of Memory (1931), often called just "Clocks" and widely regarded as a Surrealist masterpiece. The clocks in the image appear to be melthing suggesting that we are not view reality and are in a dream like state even though everything is painted with high realism. Persistence of Memory depicts a dream state, the melting and distorted clocks symbolize the erratic passage of time that we experience while dreaming. Have you ever woken up and expected it to be still the middle of the night and are surprised to find that it is already morning? Persistence of Memory by dali is a great example of surrealism because it shows the "melting" or combination of the fantastical with relativity. IE the melting clocks in a realistic/ believable dessert. This is the basic concept of surrealism, the fusing of the dream like with reality. |
About Michael McConnell : a modern surrrealist
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