Sunday, August 18, 2019
Surrealism and Salvador Dali Essay -- Art Artists
Surrealism and Salvador Dali      Surrealism is defined as an art style developed in the 1920's in Europe, characterized by using the subconscious as a source of creativity to liberate pictorial subjects and ideas. Surrealist paintings often depict unexpected or irrational objects in an atmosphere or fantasy , creating a dreamlike scenario ( www.progressiveart.com 2004). The word Surrealism was created in 1917 by the writer Guillaune Apollinaire. He used it to describe two instances of artistic innovation ( Bradley 6). In 1924, in the Manifeste du Surrealisme which launched the surrealist movement, the writer Andre Brenton and his friend Philippe Soupault adopted the word,â€Å"baptized by the name of Surrealism the new mode of expression which we had at our disposal and which we wished to pass on to our friends.†Brenton adopted the word Surrealism to describe the                                                        2 literary and artistic practice of himself and his â€Å"friends.†Some examples of Surrealist art are; M.C. Escher’s â€Å"Drawing Hands,†Salvador Dali’s â€Å"The Persistence of Memory,†(1931) , and Salvador Dali’s â€Å"Remorse.†(1931)      One of Dali’s more famous paintings, â€Å"The Persistence of Memory,†was first shown June 1931 at The Pierre Cole Gallery in Paris. Essentially the soft watches demonstrate that one aspect of the paranoiac critical method is it’s capacity to link objects to qualities normally associated with other, completely different , elements .Dali painted the setting first, a deserted landscape at Port Lligat where he and Gala had bought a fisherman’s hut the previous summer. in the foreground the self-portrait motif reappears in the form of a foetus abandoned on a beach. This refers to Dali’s professed memories of intrauterine life and suggests the trauma of birth. A watch sagging across the foetus and another hanging from a plinth evoke the feelings of timelessness associated with the experience or pre- birth. The title of the painting thus refers to prenatal memories and it’s subject is â€Å"the horrible traumatism of birth by which we are expunged from paradise†. The title                                                        3 also refers to Gala’s response when Dali asked her whether in three years ti... ....salvadordalimuseum.org/ All material displayed or broadcasted from this website are under strict copyright regulations.  © Copyright 2002 - The Salvador Dalà Museum - All Rights Reserved. http://www.artchive.com/artchive/D/dali.html Text from "ART20, The Thames and Hudson Multimedia Dictionary of Modern Art.†Grolier Encyclopedia of Knowledge Grolier Inc. Danbury Connecticut, 1993 . issue #18. Grolier Encyclopedia of Knowledge Grolier Inc. Danbury Connecticut, 1993 . vol. 1 issue #5. Etherington-Smith, Meredith The Persistence of Memory: A Biography of Dali. N.Y. , Da Capo Press, 1995.                                                                                                     13 Andrews, Wayne The Surrealist Parade N.Y. , New Directions Publishing Corp. , 1988.                                                   Bradley, Fiona Surrealism Cambridge university Press. United Kingdom, 1997. Waldes, Teresa Great Modern Masters Dali Harry n Abrams inc Publishers. Spain, 1994. Stich, Sildra Anxious Visions Abbeville Publishers. N.Y., 1990. WWW.NYTIMES.COM copyright 2005. WWW.ProgressiveArt.COM copyright 2005.
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