...Realism and Surrealism: Defining the Arts WGU Realism and Surrealism: Defining the Arts Realism was created as a response to the withstanding Romanticism of the first half in the 19th century. This response was attributed by the occurrence of the Bourgeois revolts of 1848, which changed literary tastes. After Bourgeois prevailed, the revolution brought on economic reform and later Socialism and class struggle, which interrupted the social scene. In this era of changes, writers began to study the reality of the world around them. History and mythology lost their literary importance to many (Rubin). Aesthetically realistic paintings were just that, realistic depictions of real-time scenes. In keeping with Gustave Courbet’s statement in 1861 “painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist in the representation of real and existing things” (Finocchio). In realism, there is no personification of people as mythical beings, no glorifications, and romanticizing takes no place. The focus of this art period was on the common man. Surrealism is a type of art and literature that developed in the 20th century, officially in 1924. Surrealism grew through Europe between World War I and World War II. It was founded by a small group of artists attempting to unlock the power of imagination and heavily influenced by Sigmund Freud. Surrealism evolved from the Dada movement, which created paintings of anti-art that purposely defied normal reasoning to the viewer...
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...DADAISM * Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zurich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. It was shared by independent groups in New York, Berlin, Paris and elsewhere. * The movement was a protest against the barbarism of the War; works of anti-art that deliberately defied reason. * Dadaism primarily involved visual arts, literature, poetry, theatre, and graphic design. Its purpose was to ridicule what its participants considered to be the meaninglessness of the modern world. In addition to being anti-war, dada was also anti-bourgeois and anarchistic in nature. According to its proponents, Dada was not art; it was anti-art. For everything that art stood for, Dada was to represent the opposite. Where art was concerned with aesthetics, Dada ignored them. If art is to have at least an implicit or latent message, Dada strives to have no meaning. Interpretation of Dada is dependent entirely on the viewer. If art is to appeal to sensibilities, Dada offends. Perhaps it is then ironic that Dada is an influential movement in Modern art. Dada became a commentary on art and the world, thus becoming art itself.” * The Dadaists channelled their revulsion at World War I into an indictment of the nationalist and materialist values that had brought it about. They were united not by a common style but by a rejection of conventions in art and thought, seeking through their unorthodox techniques, performances and provocations to shock society...
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...THE MOVEMENTS: ROCOCO THROUGH SURREALISM The Movements: Rococo through Surrealism Hum 100 Final At the end of the Baroque period the neo-classical style Rococo emerge in France. It dealt with elaborate ornamentation. The essence of Romanticism is particularly difficult to describe because it heavily focuses on emotion so you have to see, or hear it to understand it. Art in the modern era from 1860-1914 consists of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, and Expressionism. These movements are closely related to each other, instead of being a carful rendering like in Realism art was freer flowing and had looser lines. Between the world wars art took on new roles these movements were: Cubism, Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism. The old social stratification of classes was beginning to break down in Europe. The Rococo movement started in France in the early 18th century and is marked by elaborate ornamentation. The Rococo musical style is often viewed as an extension of the Baroque movement, ands characterized by a high degree of ornamentation and lightness of expression. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, born January 27th, 1756 in Salzburg began composing music at the age of five. In 1788 Mozart wrote his final three symphonies nos. 39, 40, and 41. He composed these symphonies for zero commission and at the time had no other source of income. Mozart composed these three pieces of work quite rapidly. Composing came easily to Mozart and he often said that he was a vessel and...
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... Raymond James Room, and a door that leads to a garden. In the store there is the “Rainy Rolls” which pays homage to Salvador Dali’s Rainy Taxi. The theatre is where they show a biography of Dali’s life. The Avant-Garden has a couple of interesting things in it. There is a giant representation of the golden rectangle, a stone from Cadaqués, Spain, the Dali wish tree, and a labyrinth to navigate. After heading up the helical staircase to the third floor there are three areas to visit. The first being the bay vista, it is an overlook which provides a spectacular view of the water. The second area is the Tom & Mary James Family Wing which has six different galleries to view. The six galleries are the entry gallery, early works, anti-art, surrealism, contemplation area, and classical and nuclear mystic period. The third area is the Hough Family Wing. This wing is where the visiting exhibitions are located. The Hough Family Wing is also where the museum has a student gallery that showcases the artwork of various Florida students. Salvador Dali was born Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali y Domènech on May 11, 1904 in Figueras, Spain. He is considered one of the best surrealist painters of his time. “…and named after a brother who had died the year before he was born, a fact that would later affect his conception of his own identity” (Benezit Dictionary of Artists). He was exposed to art at a really young age. “The painter Ramon Pichot was a friend of his father’s, and as a child, attended...
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...Cubism & Surrealism: A Break from Tradition Cubism & Surrealism: A Break from Tradition Since the introduction of perspective during the Renaissance, artists painted in a way that imitated the natural world. Some artists, such as the Impressionists, painted the world as seen through his own eyes. Others, such as the Realists, aimed to paint the world as it actually was by using precise detail and realistic subjects. It wasn’t until 1907 that artists began to look beyond nature and reality and into the creative corners of their minds to depict art that wasn’t based in the natural world. Cubism pioneered the way for this break from tradition with its unique take on perspective while Surrealism deviated even further through exploration of the subconscious mind. Cubism developed in a time of technological advances. Photography had become common and was threatening painting as a way of documenting the natural world. Art needed to evolve its purpose. (Bewley, 2013) Cubists changed the way they approached painting by rejecting the tradition of painting the world as our eyes see it and, instead, they painted subjects broken up and reassembled in abstract form from different perspectives and viewpoints. Influenced by African mask carvings, Picasso created Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, the first painting which exhibited cubism elements. (FozzyFozz, 2012) Although not considered a Cubist painting, Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon is regarded by many as a pre-Cubist painting...
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...The early part of the twentieth century ushered in several profoundly evolving styles of painting. Cubism, Expressionism, Futurism, and Dada could assault the senses and offend the viewer’s ideals while simultaneously extracting intense emotions. These movements were based on the beliefs that the artist could express their emotions directly to the viewer through the art, and that art should not be restricted by reason and social limitations. With a kind of nihilistic approach, and an almost selfish attitude, these new styles were the first to present a truly individualist nature. This unique take on artistic expression led to the formation of the Surrealist movement in the 1920’s. Surrealism, as defined by the Collins English Dictionary, is: “a movement in art and literature in the 1920s, which developed especially [sic] from dada, characterized by the evocative juxtaposition of incongruous images in order to include unconscious and dream elements.” Although he was not limited to one particular style, or even one particular medium, no one artist is more identifiable with surrealist paintings than Salvador Dali. His surreal works, which he calls “hand-painted dream photographs,” are filled with images, often grotesque, over stretching landscapes which in and of themselves could send a viewer into a cycle of deep contemplation. Dali’s most famous painting of this type is The Persistence of Memory, oil on canvas, 1931. The small canvas, only 9½ x 13 inches, shows us images...
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...The Surreal painter that I would compare myself and my dreams to would be the Italian painter, Giorgio De Chirico. Chirico combines everyday objects that do not make any logical sense when placed together, and make the painting more mysterious. I would consider this all the dreams I have. Each dream that I can remember, have some strange connections to each other. Some parts in the dream don’t make sense but it is still part of the dream. One example of a dream that reminds me of the painter or his works would be the one about how my family was in town for a holiday and there were cows in our backyard that kept making horse sounds every time someone said cow. Then outside the window as we were eating there were two birds looking in as if it was cold outside and they needed a warm place to sleep. Toward the end of my dream (or before I woke up) my mom went to the window to feed the birds some rice and bread. But I was never able to make out any of the faces of the people in the dream which I found to be extremely weird. With other dreams I was able to make out faces and remember the faces for a later dream. To execute the painting about my dream I would first paint a window in the middle of painting in the background and then paint the family, without faces around a table with all the fixings for a feast. Then off to the left of the painting, I would paint pictures of the cows in the backyard and the by the window paint the 2 birds inquiring about the food inside the home....
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...Dadaism and Surrealism Dadaism and Surrealism The Dadaism art movement is part of history now. The movement began in Zurich and New York around the time of the First World War. ("Dada," n.d.) Dadaism was aimed at the artists who felt art created spiritual values. There was a focus on the failure of this by the endless days of war, the art of previous era’s had done nothing to create spiritual values in the followers mind. Dada was a protest against what they felt was the root cause of war. Dada was an “anti-art” according to Hans Richter, one of the founders of this movement. Dada was used to offend people; it ignored aesthetics and was generally preposterous in form. Many of the art displays were made of different mediums such as urinals, garbage, bus tickets, even snow shovels. One of the more known pieces from the Dadaism period is from Marcel Duchamp “Fountain” in 1917 it was simply a urinal. This shows us that with Dadaism they were able to create art even from objects that would normally not be considered art. Surrealism as an art movement officially started in 1924. In 1924 The Surrealist Manifesto written by Andre Breton was published. Many of the artistic pieces of this era are dream like. Some type of art to wonder and marvel at, not an art of reason. ("Dada," n.d.) Surrealism is thought to have been formed as a reaction to Dadaism art movement, which was a protest of the carnages of World War 1. Surrealism was more focused on the positive outcomes of...
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...However, there was a shift from the scholasticism of earlier mediaeval times to largely focusing on the humanities. There was also an emphasis on realism, attempting to remain as objective as possible when interpreting various works; drawing from studies in form, line, lighting, and the human figure based in Greek and Roman times. Eventually, in the last couple centuries of the period, the influences had spread across Europe partially due to the invention of the printing press. Several examples of Renaissance era artists are Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Hieronymus Bosch.Surrealism is an art movement that officially started in 1924 with the publication of Le Manifeste du Surréalisme (The Surrealist Manifesto), written by André Breton. Surrealism is believed to have been formed as a reaction to the earlier Dadaism art movement, which aimed to be an anti-art protest of the horrors brought about from World War I. Focusing on the more positive side of that protest/revolutionary process, the surrealists sought to convey the thought process itself through their art, frequently using juxtaposition and dream imagery to produce colorful and exaggerated interpretations of reality. A major influence in this realm was the dream analysis of Sigmund Freud, earlier in the century, where the unconscious mind produces a more truthful interpretation of what the conscious mind experiences. A few examples of...
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... Salvador Dali was born in Figueres, Spain on May 11, 1904. He grew up middle class with his dad being a lawyer and his mother being a notary. His father raised his kid in a very strict discipline way. His mother enjoyed his art work when he was little. They say he was intelligent and a precocious child. He also had a lot of anger towards his parents and others like his school mates. His father did not tolerate that so he punished him a lot. Dali had an older brother who had the same first name as him, but sadly died from a gastroenteritis. He remembers that when he was about 5 year old that his parents took him back to his older brothers grave and told him that he was a reincarnation of his older brother which is kinda creepy. He had an older sister named Ana maria. Most of the time he and his family spent the summer in their summer home which was located in coastal village of Cadaques. When he was young he could draw sophisticated, so both of his parents supported him in his drawings. Both his parents knew he was a good drawer so they built him an art studio before entering art school. His parents sent him to Colegio de Hermanos Maristas and the Instituto in Figueres. They say he wasn't a serious student, that he was always day dreaming and he had long hair and wore very odd clothing. His father set up an exhibit of Salvadors drawings.This was his first public exhibit of his drawings. In 1921 his mother died from breast cancer, Salvador was only 16. The family was very...
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...traditional art created an environment of experimentation, one which would translate into the Surrealist doctrine. French poet and “father” of Surrealism, Andre Breton described the movement as “pure psychic automatism” and automatism as “the actual functioning of thought... in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern” (Belton). Though this sense of free expression had its advantages, one can easily see where issues like femininity could fall victim to the exemption from moral concern and reason (Belton). Another figure who was a great influence to the Surrealists was Edgar Allan Poe, whose works aligned with Surrealist notions of not only dreary melancholy (which was regarded at the time as the “most legitimate poetic tone”) but too with his views on women, showcased by his quote, “The death, then, of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world” (Belton). Another example of Poe’s questionable, and even misogynistic views of women lies in his short story, “Berenice” in which the Egaeus, Berenice’s suitor, becomes obsessed and fearful of her teeth, symbolizing the myth of vagina dentata. Later in the story Egaeus removes her teeth when he thinks she is dead, however she was rather consumed by a trance (Belton). Perhaps the most influential force on the artists of Surrealism was the neurologist Sigmund Freud, whose psychoanalytical work assisted the Surrealists to “begin a permanent revolution in which the unrestricted...
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...Salvador Dali Salvador Dali’s bizarre nature and talent made him the most dominant figure of the surrealist movement and widely recognized artists in the world. Throughout his art, he clearly elaborates on juxtaposition, disposition and the morphing of objects. He created images that were nonexistent to mankind. He was born May 11, 1904 in Figures, Spain in the foothills of the Pyranies Mountains, sixteen miles from the French border. Dali had an older brother, less then a year older then him, also named Salvador, who died of gastroenteritis. When Dali turned five, his parents brought him to his brother’s grave; he figured he was a recreation of his older brother. Dali reminisced, "[we] resembled each other like two drops of water, but we had different reflections." He "was probably a first version of myself, but conceived too much in the absolute." During the summer, Dali and his family would often spend time in their second house in the coastal village of Cadaques. This scenery is very apparent in most of Dali’s works because this was where his talent started to emerge. As a child he was encouraged to practice his art, his parents even built an art studio, so he can advance within an academy. When Dali was sixteen his mother passed away, due to breast cancer, and this had a profound affect on him. The biggest tragedy was that she was going to be forgotten, and he vowed to never be forgotten. In 1922 he moved to Madrid, and studied in the Academia de Fernando. He...
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...Rachel Mendelson Final EssayArt Appreciation Fall 2012 Art Movement -Surrealism “Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect of our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.” g. de Chirico Surrealism is a style of art in which the artist use the element of surprise and unexpected juxtapositions to evoke the imagination and mystery of the subconscious mind. Its intent was to create a liberated mind by the portrayal of everyday reality in an imaginative, dream-like manner. The surrealism art movement is one that included Freudian theories of the unconscious mind, and defy the standards society dictates through questioning what we know as logic, and exploring the fantasies of our imaginations. The surrealist movement, beginning in the 1920's, was based largely on the Dada movement preceding it and which produced works of art that deliberately defied reason. Surrealism developed primarily from the activities during World War I with the most important center of the movement beingParis. From the 1920s onward, the movement spread around the globe, eventually affecting the visual arts, literature, film, and music of many countries and languages, as well as political thought and practice, philosophy, and social theory. Surrealists feasted on the unconscious. They believed that Freud's theories on dreams, ego, superego and the id opened doors to the authentic self and a...
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...Salvador Dali The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory MAKING: Select and write about ONE of the MAKING topics – process, education, materials or tools & technology – in 50-100 words. Salvador Dali used same painting elements as we all know today. If we would like to talk about his tools and techniques, the paintings are about “Hand-Painted Decam photographs”, he crisped about the details and used almost invisible brush work style. He gave importance to photographic realism. He contributed in the technical tradition of early Flemish and early Venetician painting. In his process, he used a jeweler’s glass for mainly close work, and small round gable brushes because of these, he had debt to Geargis de Chirico and Yvas Tanguy and they founded the use of perspective. STYLE: Choose and write about ONE of the STYLE topics – period, change, individuality or geography – in 50-100 words. Painted in 1931, The Persistence of Memory is one of the most celebrated and recognized paintings of the 20 th Century. The Persistence of Memory is filled with interesting and meaningful images even the ants, the fly, the olive tree, the steps, the amorphous shape on the beach but none are, nor ever have been, as compelling or as plump with significance as the watches themselves.Thus,it indicates his style to us. IDEOLOGY: In 50-100 words, write about the ideology that matches with your chosen work. It does not have to be an ideology discussed during the semester. In this...
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...Impressionism, Cubism, Bauhaus, Surrealism, Futurism, Pop Art and Op Art. Modern Art rejects the past as a model for the art of the present and is characterized by constant innovation. Modern Art grew out of the Impressionist's rejection of the 'imitation of life' school of art. Their emphasis on the act of painting, on the paint itself, can be seen in the Expressionist and Cubist art of the turn-of-the-century. Modern art was also often driven by various social and political agendas. These were often utopian, and modernism was in general associated with ideal visions of human life and society and a belief in progress. From the 1970’s artists and movements began to react against Modernism and post-modernism was formed. Some different types of the movements in art are: abstract, action art, American realism, architecture, art deco, and art nouveau, Asian, Bauhaus, black and white, celebrity, cityscape, colorful, comic book art, conceptual art, contemporary art, cubism, cuisine, exclusive, expressionism, fauvism, figurative, floral, framed prints, Modern art and many more. There were a lot of movements in the art industry ever since the beginning of Modern art which started in the 19th Century. Surrealism is a style of art and literature developed principally in the 20th century, stressing the subconscious or non-rational significance of imagery arrived at by automatism or the exploitation of chance effects, unexpected juxtapositions. Surrealism was developed by the 20th-century...
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