Surrealism - Art Movement No 6

Blog Entry No 17
Tutor: Ms. Scicluna
Date Uploaded: 11/2/2016

Salvador Dali 

- Writers and artists.
- sought to channel the unconscious. 
- unlock the power of the imagination.
- Rationalism and literary.
- Powerful influence by psychoanalysis.
- Conscious mind would regain the power of the imagination. 
- filling the mind with taboos.
- psyche the power to reveal the unreal world in reality and urge revolution.
- The emphasis of Surrealism is the imagination power that puts it in the tradition of Romanticsm.
- revelations could be in street or ineveryday life.

Vladimir Kush 

- Surrealism motivate an unconscious mind triggering the interests in myth and primitivism, to shape up new and other movements that the style remain inspired to this day.


Artists 

 - Andre Breton
- Sigmund Freud 
- Salvador Dali
- Max Ernst 
- Joan Miro
- Henri Rousseau
- Arnold Bocklin 

Concepts & Styles  
-Sharing various types of anti - rationalism of Dada, the movement in which it formed and developed out of.
-Parisian Surrealists to reprieve from violent political situations and to show nervousness in which that these artists had felt about the world's confusion.
- showing fantasy and dream imagery, as artists had developed creative works in various different mediums that had showed their inner imaginative minds in quirky, symbolic forms, unveiling concerns and consider these aspects by analysing them through visual aims.

Surrealist Photography
- Uncanny imagery 
- Central role of Surrealism 
- Artists - Man Ray & Maurice Tabard - Used this medium to discover and experiment on automatic wiritng
- Techniques such as double exposure, combination printing, montage and solarization were the established uses that made the camera altogether.
Other techniques that a few other artists had used for their work were rotation or distortion to come up with abscure images.
- Prosaic photograph 
- Mundane context
- Vulgar photographs
- Police snapshots
- Movie stills 
- Documentary photographs 
- Showing Paris as a 'dream capital' in Man Ray's Atget's photoseries. 

Styles - Surrealist Paintings -Surrealist Objects and Sculptures - Surrealist Photography - Surrealist Film - Abstract Expressionism - Feminism and Women Surrealists.


References 

The Art Story - Modern Art Insight. Surrealism. http://www.theartstory.org/movement-surrealism.htm (Accessed 11th February 2016)