ARTHISTORY FINALE : Surrealism
SURREALISM
Based on the definition of surrealism, it is the principles, ideals, or practice of producing fantastic or incongruous imagery or effects in art, literature, film, or theater by means of unnatural or irrational juxtapositions and combinations. In earlier, the art of the surrealism was aimed to revolutionise human experience, rejecting a rational vision of life in favor of one that asserted the value of the unconscious and dreams. The movement’s poets and artists found magic and strange beauty in the unexpected and the uncanny, the disregarded and the unconventional. By the history it said that, In the 1920’s, such an art movement came around that changed the way art was defined. The Surrealist art movement combined elements of its predecessors, Dada and cubism, to create something unknown to the art world. The movement was first rejected, but its eccentric ideas and unique techniques paved the way for a new form of art. It began during at the end of the First World War, Tristan Tzara, leader of the Dada Movement. Dada was an artistic and literally movement that began in Zurich , Switzerland. It arose as a reaction to the First World War and the nationalism that many thought had led to the war. Thus , this movement wanted to attack society through scandal. He believed that a society that create the monstrosity of war does not deserve art, so he decided to give it anti art not beauty but ugliness. the German Max Ernst (1891-1976), the Frenchman Andre Masson (1896-1987) and the Spaniard Joan Miro(1893-1983). About 1937, Earnst, a former Dadaist, began to experiment with two unpredictable processes called decalcomania and grattage. After that the movement was dissipated then one movement that were established which called Surrealist Movement in 1927, this idea it gave rise to become the cornerstones of various categories of modern and contemporary art. The Surrealist became an international intellectual and political movement. Surrealist sought to channel the unconscious as a means to unlock the power of the imagination. Disdaining rationalism and literary realism, and powerfully influenced by psychoanalysis, the Surrealists believed the rational mind repressed the power of the imagination, weighting it down with taboos. The visual artists who first worked with Surrealist techniques and imagery were in Belgian artist Rene Magritte (1898-1967) moved from Brussels to Paris and became a leading figure in the visual Surrealist movement. In 1929, Dali moved from Spain to Paris and made his first Surrealist paintings. He expanded on Magritte's dream imaginary with his own erotically charged, hallucinatory visions. In the Persistence of Memory is one of his art that is famous.
This art were made on 1931 by Salvador Dali it was made by oil on canvas. As we can see there a lot of melt watch. Salvador Dalí frequently described his paintings as “hand painted dream photographs.” He based this seaside landscape on the cliffs in his home region of Catalonia, Spain. The ants and melting clocks are recognizable images that Dalí placed in an unfamiliar context or rendered in an unfamiliar way. The large central creature comprised of a deformed nose and eye was drawn from Dalí’s imagination, although it has frequently been interpreted as a self-portrait. Its long eyelashes seem insect-like; what may or may not be a tongue oozes from its nose like a fat snail from its shell.The meaning behind Surrealist Salvador Dali's artistic masterpiece The Persistence of Memory (1931) is not easy to grasp. In the painting, four clocks are prominently on display in an otherwise empty desert scene. While this might seem uncanny enough, the clocks are not flat as you might expect them to be, but are bent out of shape, appearing to be in the act of melting away. In classic Surrealist manner, this weird and unexpected juxtaposition poses a lot of questions right upfront. First off, why are these clocks melting? Why are the clocks out in the desert? Where are all the people?. Some art scholars believe that Dali's melting clocks may symbolize Albert Einstein's groundbreaking Theory of Relativity, a new and revolutionary idea back in the culture of the 1930s. Through the theory of relativity, Einstein proposed a new concept of time as being relative and complex not something fixed and easily tracked with as crude a gadget as a pocket watch. In Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali shows the clocks melting away and thus losing their power and stability over the world around them. Through his melting clocks, Salvador Dali might be saying that simple machines like wall clocks and pocket watches are primitive, old-fashioned and even impotent in a post-Einstein world.The Persistence of Memory is perhaps the most famous Dali painting, with its iconic "melting clocks" becoming the icon of Surrealism and one of the most recognizable pieces of art of the twentieth century. While we cannot know for certain the true meaning, interpretation or analysis that Dali himself intended for his painting, it is likely that Dali himself recognized and developed the different shades of historical, artistic, social and autobiographical meaning encrypted into his artwork. The real meaning of Persistence of Memory is most likely some combination of them all.
Based on the definition of surrealism, it is the principles, ideals, or practice of producing fantastic or incongruous imagery or effects in art, literature, film, or theater by means of unnatural or irrational juxtapositions and combinations. In earlier, the art of the surrealism was aimed to revolutionise human experience, rejecting a rational vision of life in favor of one that asserted the value of the unconscious and dreams. The movement’s poets and artists found magic and strange beauty in the unexpected and the uncanny, the disregarded and the unconventional. By the history it said that, In the 1920’s, such an art movement came around that changed the way art was defined. The Surrealist art movement combined elements of its predecessors, Dada and cubism, to create something unknown to the art world. The movement was first rejected, but its eccentric ideas and unique techniques paved the way for a new form of art. It began during at the end of the First World War, Tristan Tzara, leader of the Dada Movement. Dada was an artistic and literally movement that began in Zurich , Switzerland. It arose as a reaction to the First World War and the nationalism that many thought had led to the war. Thus , this movement wanted to attack society through scandal. He believed that a society that create the monstrosity of war does not deserve art, so he decided to give it anti art not beauty but ugliness. the German Max Ernst (1891-1976), the Frenchman Andre Masson (1896-1987) and the Spaniard Joan Miro(1893-1983). About 1937, Earnst, a former Dadaist, began to experiment with two unpredictable processes called decalcomania and grattage. After that the movement was dissipated then one movement that were established which called Surrealist Movement in 1927, this idea it gave rise to become the cornerstones of various categories of modern and contemporary art. The Surrealist became an international intellectual and political movement. Surrealist sought to channel the unconscious as a means to unlock the power of the imagination. Disdaining rationalism and literary realism, and powerfully influenced by psychoanalysis, the Surrealists believed the rational mind repressed the power of the imagination, weighting it down with taboos. The visual artists who first worked with Surrealist techniques and imagery were in Belgian artist Rene Magritte (1898-1967) moved from Brussels to Paris and became a leading figure in the visual Surrealist movement. In 1929, Dali moved from Spain to Paris and made his first Surrealist paintings. He expanded on Magritte's dream imaginary with his own erotically charged, hallucinatory visions. In the Persistence of Memory is one of his art that is famous.
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| The Persistence of Memory- Salvador Dali (1931) Spanish , Museum of Modern Art, New York City |
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