Surrealism

Poetic and Surrealist Symbolism in Eyes Without a Face Eyes Without a Face is a 1960 French-Italian horror film directed by Georges Franju. It is an adaptation of Jean Redon's novel. Dr. Génessier, played by Pierre Brasseur, deals with an immense amount of guilt after an automobile accident that causes his daughter, Christiane’s, face to become disfigured. Christiane is played by Édith Scob, and outsiders believe that she is dead after the crash. In reality, her father and his assistant, Louise…

Theory was based on an overly simplified understanding of the writings of Sigmund Freud recreated for the use of poets and visual artists. Picasso 's Woman with Flower (1932) is a portrait of Marie-Therese, wry and contorted in the manner of Surrealism. The Surrealism movement was thriving in strength and acceptance at the time, and even Picasso couldn 't really avoid being changed by this group of Parisian artists. During the 1930s, the mentor replaced the jester as a common interpretation of…

Colin Covert of the Star Tribune phrases it perfectly in his review of Enemy, "“Enemy” is a bewilderingly skillful metaphysical thriller combining Swiss-watch engineering and surrealism, like one of Dali’s melted timepieces. I watched each gripping scene in a continuous state of “uh-oh.”". Adam Bell, a history professor who seems to be cruising through life on auto-pilot as of late. One fateful day, he rents a movie recommended…

The modernist era of art began in the late 19th century and last until around the middle of the 20th century. Some of the important artists of this time were Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, and Salvador Dalí. Postmodernism began in the 1960s, however the term was not predominantly applied to the movement until the 1970’s mainly with architecture, but when it comes to paintings and other such art the term did not come to fruition until the mid 1980s. Some of the important artists of this movement…

One of my leadership experiences would be mentoring young people to set a goal in life. Setting a goal to the young people I mentor, benefited themselves. These young people were in eighth grade and I taught them that in high school, you need to have a goal in their lives because they needed to look forward to something. The best part about mentoring these eighth graders were seeing their face expressions. Another leadership experience was leading my volleyball team to the championship round on…

The first horror movies are mostly surreal, disturbing pieces, owing their visual appearance to some extent to expressionist painting, spirit photography of the 1860s, the story styles of the Grand Guignol Theater Company and Gothic writing. They draw upon the fables and legends of Europe, and render creatures into physical structure. Spirit photography is the act of utilizing double exposures or superimpositions to portray apparitions on film. It was mainstream from the 1860s onwards not just…

His involvement with gestural painting, inspired partly by the sand painting of the American Indians and partly by Surrealism, culminated in his use from 1947 of a technique of dripping trails of paint onto a canvas laid flat on the floor’ (Tate)(http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/jackson-pollock-1785) His pencil drawing War 1947 is the only drawing he ever titled. It…

images they were seeing and state whether or not they experienced an emotional or psychological reaction upon viewing them. Through this setup I hoped to mimic the reactions to Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism, both during their time and in contemporary society. Much like the primary trend with critics of Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism, during the first critique the response of the group was overwhelmingly skewed towards the Surrealist pieces. While a handful of my peers responded to…

Pablo Picasso is described as “one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century.” [1] He was a pioneer in cubism and helped develop the art of surrealism. Because of his contributions to the art world, Picasso needs to be remembered as a significant artist from the 1900’s. Pablo Diego Picasso was born on the 26th of October in 1881 to parents José Ruiz y Blasco and María Picasso y López. He was born in Málaga, Spain. By the time he turned four, he was already a great…

The cat in the hat, Green eggs and ham, How the grinch stole christmas, these are only a few outstanding books written by the renowned author, Theodor Seuss Geisel. Theodor Geisel, or more commonly known as Doctor Seuss, was a surrealist author and illustrator. He has published over 60 books and 16 of those books are on the Publishers weekly list (A&E Television Networks, 2017). Doctor Seuss writes in a unique writing style that he created which is a mix of vivacity and manipulation of…