Surrealism

Uncertainty is a situation that arouses doubt, apprehension and dilemma thus prompting people to take a reserved stand. The Second World War had an economical, social, physical and psychological impact on people`s lives forcing them to be imprisoned in a sort of bubble, where life was more traumatic than death. Samuel Beckett`s Waiting for Godot is an archetypal post-war play dealing with the uncertainties, which manifested itself through the theme of existentialism and absurdity, the plot,…

The movies “Psycho” by Alfred Hitchcock and “What Lies Beneath” by Robert Zemeckis are similar in the sense they are both amazingly put together in a horror movie that the viewers loved. It takes a lot of effort to make a good movie that the audience will like, but it would take more from a horror movie so the audience would stay and watch up till the end. For the people who do enjoy the horror movies, there are many reasons why they watch scary movies. The elements that make the horror…

was able to see the main women’s bathroom. The artist that created the women’s bathroom was Cynthia Consentino from Massachusetts. I love the idea of using the exquisite corpse (cadaver exquis) for the body segments on separated titles. A little surrealism, mixed with a playful reality is what I felt gazing at the artwork. Every element that was placed seemed to have a caring and fun feel to it. The artwork reminded me of playing with paper dolls when I was little. As you look at the wall,…

Comparative Study "Physiognomy" refers to to the study of a person's character or personality from his or her outer appearance; mainly using the face. The word comes from the Greek “physis” meaning "nature" and “gnomon” meaning "judge" or "interpreter”. Studies into the science reveal that human kind have evolved an impulsive ability to make judgements of people based on their appearance. What began as a survival skill, assessing efficiently if the person before us friend or foe, has…

The artist I have selected is Pablo Picasso, a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. The greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, as well as the co-creator of Cubism. “Picasso devoted himself to an artistic production that contributed significantly to—and paralleled the entire development of—modern art in the 20th century.” The personal life Pablo Picasso was in his father’s footsteps…

“Chile, province fertile and marked / in the famed region of Antarctica / by remote nations respected / for its strength, nobility, and power” is part of the poem La Araucana, written by Alonso de Ercilla Zúñiga, and considered as the first work piece of literature in Chile. A Spanish soldier, he wrote his epic poem while he spent two years in Chile in the 16th century. As with other dimensions of Chilean social, economic, and cultural life, literature has also been influenced by the European…

Abelardo used his photography to express his hardships and feelings of isolation as a foreigner in the United States. He also fancied the topic of Surrealism in Photography because it suited his feelings of being a stranger in a new country. Abelardo Morell is a renowned Cuban-born photographer in the field of Contemporary photography, known for his invention working methods, including the use of a Camera Obscura that represented by Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York City. He took the Camera…

Interlude: Read with your Ears In this chapter, Foster points out the mistake of reading with “our” eyes. Instead, the use of the “inner ear” benefits strongly configuring the thought process and the significance of using past recollection. The “inner ear” that Foster mention involve sorting information from specific words or phrases to bringing readers to a particular past knowledge: “whether...information comes from print or film...simply read [from] the text” (217). The “inner ear” Foster…

Over the years, poetry has consistently been used as a writing medium for artistically expressing emotions and thoughts. While the classic poets, such as Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson are well known and admired, there are many underrated current poets that are equally talented. One of the most skillful contemporary poets is Louise Glück, who took full advantage of her creative abilities and wrote eleven books of poetry throughout her career. Her poetry invokes strong emotions, and although it…

In the late 1960s‘, after the end of the Second World War, Paris was not any more the romantic city, known from the last centuries. The French capital became the described definition of 'modern ' in the same sense of an international culture. This meaning was adapted by other folklores as African sculptures, American detective stories, Russian music, Neo-Catholicism, German technique, Italian desperation. Meantime a group called Nouveaux Réalistes was formed, where two artists were working…