Essays on Surrealist

Artist: Alfons Maria Mucha

Movement: Art Nouveau Art Nouveau is an art movement from western Europe, which also became popular in the United States in 1880s and was one of the major trends until the First World War. Art Nouveau, which means New Art in French, is a modern art form, but it was inspired by natural world, forms and details of nature. Art Nouveau is often called ‘total’ art style, because it influenced all of the types of art, like architecture, interior design, graphic art and, of course, fashion, clothes, textiles, jewelry and so on (Gontar). Alphonse Mucha is a czech artist, ...

René Magritte's oil on canvas painting The Son of Man (1964) has become a very popular visual text in a short period of time. The symbolism and unusual and enigmatic create a holistic picture of the semantic code that every viewer tries to interpret. Although the canvas contains a fairly small number of different details, as contrasted with Bosch or Rubens' paintings, yet there is a deep consisting of several layers meaning in it. The painting contains a number of visual symbols, which have already become some kind of the archetypes of modern society. The Son of Man (see ...

Abstract

In the last three hundred years’ art has changed significantly. It has gone from Rococo art which stylized youth, love, and lightheartedness with loose brushstrokes, curvy lines, and soft pastel colors. Many Rococo painting are slightly asymmetrical in order to provide the scene with a sense of movement. This was followed by Neoclassical Art which sought to emulate the artworks of Classical antiquity. In the 1900’s there was a shift in the art world as art went from representing an ideal to having no form or rules. This is seen in both the Cubist and Surrealist Art movements ...

Introduction

The workings of Henry Moore have been so enclosed in fluctuating to a better grade than possibly any other British sculptor from the twentieth-century and is sometimes conflicting, desert about their contemporary significance as well as historical importance, that new perceptions have frequently seemed indefinable. Previously in the 1930’s, with the hastening motion from the close of the Second World War, Moore’s sculptures were the focus of high appealing, societal and political debates. In most cases, the viewing of the work was coordinated with an inventive institution keen to discover an iconic image for a contemporary social-democratic ...

Salvador Dali (1904-198) was a Spanish artist considered to be the icon of the Surrealist movement. Probably the most universally famous and highly regarded of the artists of the twentieth century, Salvador Dali was born in the town of Figueres, in Catalonia, Spain where his father held the position of notary public. Although well known as a painter of the Surrealist Movement, he was also a gifted photographer and film maker. As a child, Dali was encouraged in his art by his family and in particular a friend of his father’s, a lawyer named Pepito Pichot, whose brother ...

The essay discusses three artworks by a contemporary artist who is living today and compares them to classic Surrealist artworks. The contemporary artist chosen for this essay and carrying elements of the surreal in his work is Mohammad Zaza, who is a Syrian artist. Three artworks of Zaza are chosen for analysis in the paper, namely, “The shell”, “Face of the Machine” and “Mind”. Surrealism as another art form that embraced chaos and the irrational. The Surrealists tried to unlock the imagination of the mind, rejecting rationalism and realism. The focus here was to tap the unconscious mind. It ...

In many ways, Surrealism sought to turn realistic representation on its head. The Surrealist artists wanted to use the unconscious as a path for releasing the force of the imagination. Taking much of their inspiration from the then-new field of psychoanalysis, Surrealists thought that reason only limited the imagination’s power by drenching it with the rules of society. Surrealists used Sigmund’s Freud studies of dreams as their launching point, as he was one of the very first thinkers to recognize the possibility of dreams and look at the unconscious as a valid release point of human desire ...

Un Chien Andalou (Dali and Bunuel)–surrealism/film

Un Chien Andalou was Luis Bunuel’s first film that he produced during the surrealism period. Bunuel produced the film during the Dada Movement that a group of surrealists was trying to substitute. The artists were more intrigued with examining irrational knowledge and desire, and they dedicated their efforts and time towards reconfiguring the object world (Elder 45). Research indicates that the artists of Dada drew their inspiration from automatic painting, writing, hypnotic trance, and psychoanalysis. The film Un Chien Andalou plays around with corruption of time, reality, and symbolism. As a surrealist artist, Bunuel firmly believed that nature ...

Atget’s was a commercial photographer working in the 1890’sand early 1900’s in France. He started taking images as studies for artists, and later expanded his work to create basic visual records. It was not until his work was considered, posthumously, and through the response of other photographers, like Berenice Abbot, to his work, that his photography was considered for its artistic value, rather than simply as commercial work, As a result, his work experienced a significant revival, including the analysis of the works, as a whole, and separating the works into seven individual albums, through the ...

The essay looks at Frida Kahlo's work and her choice of media for her artworks. The purpose is to assess one of the most important artists of the twentieth century and how her artwork reflects on the painful experiences in her life. Frida Kahlo was brought up in a male-dominated Mexican society, but she was a free-thinking spirit, ready to take on the world. However, disaster struck, and she was left with a shattered spine and life because of a horrific traffic accident. Those long hospital stays and pain cast life long shadows in her life which was marred ...

Introduction

Surrealist is the work of art that has its roots in the early 1920s it was aimed at creating a connection between what most people referred to as dreams and fantasies to the reality. Surrealist work of art was designed to create a bridge between the conscious and the unconscious features of experiences to build absolute reality from primary imagination. Surrealist work of art developed from psychological processes and not any logical and rational process. Surrealist work art was aimed at establishing an evaluation of psychic characteristics (Barr, Alfred Hamilton, and Georges Hugnet). To develop psychic responses in the ...

Appreciation of Art - Hamlet

Artist: - Angel PlanellsNationality: SpanishDate: 1938 Title: Hamlet Genre: Surrealism Medium: Oil paint on canvas Size: 39 3/4 x 37 3/8 in. (101 x 95 cm) About Angel Planells Angel Planells was born in 1901 in Cadaqués en and lived the majority of his life in Barcelona where he lived all of his life. He was an introverted man who was motivated by his dreams and imagination. He was a close friend of Salvador Dalí. He participated in a number of Surrealist Exhibitions with fellow artists such as Miró, Spaniards Dalí, and Oscar Domínguez. He died in ...

Introduction

Salvador Dali is one of the most renowned and prolific artists in the twentieth century. He is perhaps recognized for his reputable artistic works such as the painting of melting clocks in the Persistence of Memory. He started his passion for art during his childhood when he attended his first drawing lesson and claimed that he exhibited hysterical, rage-filled explosions concerning his playmates and family. Throughout his life, Dali has shown his love for Catalan culture, and he has portrayed the landscape environment of Figures, where he was born, in his paintings during his career (The Art Story, Sec. ...

Born in the picturesque town of the Figueres in Spain, in 1904 Salvador Dali P was the second child of Salvador Dali Y Cusi and Felipa Domenech Ferres. Dali’s father Salvador Dali Y Cusi was a lawyer and a notary, he believed in raising children in strict discipline in contrast to that of Dali’s mother who was kind hearted and comforted Dali when scolded by his father (Salvador Dalí Biography 2016). The family would go to spend summers to Cadaques, a village situated at the seaside. As a young boy Dali looked forward to go the summer ...

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 ...

The 1943 painting The Jungle by Wifredo Lam is an Afro-Cuban piece that incorporates substantial elements of Santeria and Vodou religions. At the same time, there are many political and stylistic elements that make it just as important a piece as its religious ties. What it says about modern Afro-Cuban tourism and culture allows the viewer to harken back to the simple spirituality of Santeria, glorifying it as an alternative to a hurried, secular lifestyle.

The painting is very tropical at first glance, with many colors that are typical of that environment (harsh greens and blues, as well as son oranges ...

INTRODUCTION

The Spanish painter Salvador Dali was one of the most idiosyncratic and interesting figures of the 20th century, not just for his painting, but for his overall personality and behavior. He was often called eccentric and flamboyant, almost to the detriment of his work. However, despite his odd nature, it cannot be denied that his surrealist paintings carry significant meaning and purpose, as well as incredible aesthetics behind them.

This is no less true in his 1954 painting Crucifixion Corpus Hypercubus, which depicts a rather unique version of Christ on the Cross, combining complex quantum mathematics with a deeply spiritual event. ...

"Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy – the joy of being Salvador Dali – and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things this Salvador Dali is going to accomplish today?" His personality causes a lot of controversy: God given talent for painting and odd personality. These qualities helped him to become Salvador Dali, as one of the greatest and the most eccentric painters in the world and one of the most important figures of the Surrealists of the 20th century. The influence of Dali on Surrealism was enormous. "P.Halsman: Dali, what is surrealism? Dali: Surrealism is ...