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    Meret Oppenheim

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    feeling of fur on their lips‚ instead of a regular hard piece. The fact that there is fur on the dishes makes the entire artwork so it’s interesting that something so simple can be such a clever‚ great piece of art. Oppenheim was a member of the Surrealist movement of the 1920s along with other artists such as Luis Bünuel‚ Marcel Duchamp‚ and Max Ernst. Her large involvement in the movement is likely what brought on the idea of the Object for Oppenheim. The aim of the movement was to "resolve the

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    Shen Te’s male “other” in Brecht’s “The Good Woman of Setzguan” Brecht’s “The Good Woman of Setzguan”‚ with its intense surrealist element‚ cruelly unveils the immense ugliness of a capitalistic society‚ displaying aspects of exploitation and materialism through the prism of each of the two genders. Providing his heroine with a male “alter ego”‚ Brecht remarkably places the female in a male dominated society projecting women’s need to adopt male characteristics to survive and their endeavor to preserve

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    resented the marriage. The next year Dali moved into the Student’ residence in Madrid. In 1929 Dali met his future wife and muse‚ Gala. Gala was a Russian immigrant born with the name Helena Dmitievna Deluvina Diakonova. At the time she was married to surrealist poet Paul Eluard. Gala and Dali were married in a civil ceremony in 1934 after living together since 1929. They were later re-married in a Roman Catholic ceremony in 1958‚ but before that in1940 Gala and Dali moved to the United States when the

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    and experiences. The three artists I will use to demonstrate how symbols can be used to gain different meanings are‚ Joseph Cornell‚ Salvador Dali and Rosalie Gascoigne. Cornell uses symbols to represent his fantasies and dreams‚ Dali also uses surrealist symbols to represent his desires and dreams and Gascoigne uses symbols to represent the landscape where she lived and decay. Joseph Cornell is an American sculptor and filmmaker. He was born on the 24th of December 1903 and died on the 29th

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    Salvador Dali

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    Salvador Dali‚ was one of world’s most famous surrealist artists. His work is popular amongst modern society as well as art enthusiasts and often interweaves bizarre and thought-provoking ideas with abstract images‚ many of these symbolising dreams and fantasies. His paintings explore the connection between reality and fantasy‚ and he once described his own work as "hand painted dream photographs". He was born May 11‚ 1904 as in Figueras‚ Spain. He was born the third Salvador Dali after his father

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    Criticism Revision: Roland Barthes: The Death of the Author “The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the author.” Barthes argues that- Literature is studied through an understanding of authors not individual texts Text and author should be studied independently from one another Author should not be held solely responsible for the success or failure of a text as they are separate entities The responsibility of a text lies with the reader A text should be defined by the interpretation

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    Donnie Darko (2001) is a surrealist‚ mystery‚ sci-fi film set in suburban America‚ which follows the disenchanted and troubled teenager‚ Donnie Darko. The film follows the teen as he begins to explore what it means to be alive and believes to uncover secrets of the universe that gives him‚ what he believes to be a tempting power to alter time and destiny‚ letting him lose touch with what is and is not reality. In the following text I will be analysing and focusing on the opening scene of Donnie

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    and eventually my mother enters to my art studio‚ suddenly I realize it is 3;00 a.m. and I am still painting. That is the power of art it allows you to wander. It awakens my creative side and challenges me to put in the canvas all those weird‚ surrealist scenes that cross my mind at night. And due to these random imaginative sparks I’ve always carry a notepad with me sketching objects‚ writing phrases or anything that inspires me daily which helps me expand my imagination. The canvas has become

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    chaos brought out the feelings I had for the world. My fascination with the avant-garde scene didn’t stop. While single hour-long sine-waves blarred through my room‚ I began to paint unorthodox pictures‚ read up on abstract novels and studied the surrealist ways of film and theatre. My goal was to drain that untapped potential in my mind. All that creativity that I couldn’t express in my schoolwork was in full form here. Each year got better the more I experimented with this new lifestyle. Grades went

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    Case Study, Marc Chagall

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    Discuss how the environment and other influences‚ for example personal beliefs‚ have shaped the work of at least one artist you have studied this year. Refer to work done by this artist to substantiate your statements. Marc Chagall was a Russian/French artist who was born into a poor family of Hassidic Jews on the 7th July 1887. Throughout his working life he was based in Russia from 1906-1910‚ then he moved to France for four more years before moving back to Russia and Soviet Belarus for eight

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