Surrealism

In the excerpt ‘The Origins of Painting and its Representational Value,’ Léger seeks to describe the concept of realism in modern art as well as answer the question most commonly associated with modern pictures: “What does that represent?” Léger develops his claims on modern art and his response to what he considers a nonsensical question by comparing a work of art’s imitative capabilities with its realistic value, defining as best he can the concept of pictorial realism, and by providing a…

The Persistence of Memory (1931) was made in 1931 by Salvador Dali, the artwork is 24 x 33 cm, oil on canvas painting, and now the artwork is in The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The style of the artwork is surrealistic. The subject matter is a barren landscape with melting clocks draped over unrelated objects, caricature of Dali’s face on the ground, plus a rocky headland with the sea in the background. The focal point of the artwork is the strange caricature of Dali’s profile, complete with…

Abstract art took centre stage and provided novel experience for the viewer. Leading exponent of the movement was Jackson Pollock who used a stick and dripped paint onto the canvas or sometimes splattered it directly from a can to create seemingly random patterns. People found it difficult to understand his works and hence the nick name “Jack the Dripper”. His most important work remains Blue Poles (1952). Other exponents of abstract art were Lee Kransner, wife of Pollock who created Cool…

The "Anatomy Series" was the most interesting piece I appreciated on my visit to the Perez Art Museum Miami. Roberto Fabelo, a Cuban painter, is the author of this peculiar series of drawings. This set of art is based on pages from an Anatomy book with certain representation of human organs and systems. The author uses the original drawing in the page to recreate and integrate it to his own creation. Fabelo's peculiar style gives as a result a series of smart, graphically detailed, bold, spicy…

In a land of floating armchairs and melting clocks is where I found my interest in art. Salvador Dali, an eccentric and renowned surrealist artist, has changed the way I see the world by providing a fantastical perspective on the quotidian details of human interaction. Dali is most commonly associated with his earlier pieces which feature the use of common objects but with a surrealist twist. He employs the use of ordinary objects, but distorts them in ways that modify the perspective and…

De Stijl’s most outstanding painter was Mondrian, whose art was rooted in the mystical ideas of Theosophy. Although influenced by his contact with Analytical Cubism in Paris before 1914, Mondrian thought that it had fallen short of its goal by not having developed toward pure abstraction, or, as he put it, “the expression of pure plastics” (which he later called Neoplasticism). In his search for an art of clarity and order that would also express his religious and philosophical beliefs, Mondrian…

Don Hall’s art was absolutely stunning. Don Hall began his artistic career when he was a freshman in college where he would copy drawings, which he soon evolved into paintings. He used self-portraiture when he realized that his paintings might never be displayed in a museum. In many of Don Hall’s paintings, he incorporated famous artists but in some cases, he painted a replica of the artists painting but put in his own personal elements in it. All of his paintings were painted with acrylic paint…

Salvador Dali was one of the most famous unusual artists of the 20th century, he is known as a surrealistic, these paintings involved mysterious or familiar objects, Whatever he painted came right out of his dreams. Salvador Dali was born in Figueres ,Spain of 1904, but just before he was born his brother died, so his parents named him Salvador after his brother. When Salvador was growing up he was confused, because he acted different from other children. Salvador Dali began painting in 1911, he…

In the film An Andalusian Dog I believe the filmmakers Bunel and Dali were trying to demonstrate how chaotic the world was in there film. During this time Paris was in their own great depression and having a great deal of financial troubles. In the 1920’s Paris had been doing really well financially and was looked at as coming up, then right around 1929 they really started declining. Things became really rough for most people and it began to show. This is why in the film I think Bunel and Dali…

Joan Miró was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist. He was born on April 20, 1893 in Barcelona, Spain. He grew up in Barrie Gótic. He focused his art on Surrealism and Automatism. Surrealism is the sandbox for the subconscious mind; Automatism is the”random” drawing that attempted to express the inner workings of the human psyche. While he was working in the business world he had a nervous breakdown and left the business completely for art. In 1924, Miró joined a Surrealist group. Miró…