Surrealism

really liked to learn about. Making this painting I spent a lot of time thinking before I laid paint down. The research I looked into was the surrealist painters and looking into the fresco paintings and codex writing by the Mexica. When looking into surrealism I was drawn to Magritte’s The Flash and The blank signature. Images of Mictlantecuhtli and Quetzalcoatl influenced my work as well. They are the gods of death and life in the Aztec pantheon. My experience over all this semester in…

2008). Figure 4: Watts, J. (n.d.). Mae West from the cover of Mae West: An Icon in Black and White. [image] Available at: http://www.jahsonic.com/MaeWest.jpg 2.2 Similarities and differences between the Surrealist Movement and Pop Art Surrealism started in the early 1920’s and Pop Art started in the 1950’s. Surrealist communicated the emotional component of the artist’s perspective and Pop art is generally shown through items of current interest of the time, taking…

According to the Oxford Dictionaries, utopia is an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. The word was coined in Greek by Sir Thomas More for his book entitled Utopia published in 1516. A Utopian society is perfect society that undergoes continual improvement to achieve the highest aggregate satisfaction level for the most people, it strives for not just a better world but a perfect world. In Utopia, one size does not fit all, as everyone has different needs and…

Changing Attitudes in Art In the first half of the twentieth century, the world experienced events unlike anything it had ever seen before. From the pinnacle of prosperity to the horrors of hell, those who lived during this time period went through a multitude of emotions and experiences. Two world wars, divided by an intermission of a little over twenty years that included the Great Depression nearly pushed the world over the edge to an apocalyptic end. As a result, the perspectives from…

heavily-built sculpturesque Grecian women, in traditional settings. This Period was again influenced with positive images and colors creating very pleasant looking pictures without the distortion found in other movements like Cubism or the next movement Surrealism. During this time period Picasso created works like “Three Woman at the spring" 1921 and…

Salvador Dalí’s Lobster Telephone (1936) is, perhaps, one of the most influential and distinguishable surrealist objects from the 20th century. Commissioned by the English poet and great patron of surrealism, Edward James, the work is a humorous fusion of life and technology. It is comprised of an artificial lobster mounted upon the handset of a functional rotary dial telephone (Figure 1). This comical arrangement was duplicated by Dalí into several off-white versions and the symbolism of the…

Lyrical treatments of passion, love, pride, and death have made a tremendous mark on Federico Garcia Lorca’s literary works. Many of Garcia’s poems evoke traditional Andalusian folklore, gypsy music and surrealist ideas reflecting racial prejudice and economic suffering, which have created intense and dramatic creations during his legacy. While a members of the Generation of 27, Lorca was able to explore the many different literary styles after analyzing many works from Luis de Góngora, Juan…

Carlo Carrà was a metaphysical artist during the 1920’s and 30’s. Carlo was influenced by both Masaccio, the first great Italian painter during the Quattrocento period, and Giorgio Morandi, an associate of the regional Strapaese group. Masaccio’s influence can be seen in the sombre coloring in most of Carlo’s works. Specifically, this sombreness can be seen in Jolts of a Cab. Giorgio Morandi made many paintings of subtle depictions of subjects that appear to be simple. In Still Life, Carlo…

big houses, etc. Modernism happened in the Jazz age or roaring twenties, this period is all about crimes, gangsters, restrictions, and prejudice. The Great Gatsby represents the Modernist period, and that will also indicate how the Jazz Age and Surrealism are being defined in the novel, through examples, quotations, and explanations on how each relate to the modernist genre and helped the novel became one of a kind. The Great Gatsby is truly a modernist…

Dada artwork represents the collapse of bourgeois cultural values and mocks the rational thought’s foolery and even the foundations of modern society. Dada had readymade objects which transformed ordinary objects into works of art. Surrealism, on the other hand, focuses on how “Criminal Madness” and the female mind are considered weaker and irrational than the male mind. Their primary purpose was to free the conscious mind from rational thinking and reason. 5) How are the characteristics…