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    Surrealism - Art Movement

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    it presents a recognizable scene that turns into a dream or nightmare‚ while another type is biomorphic Surrealism‚ it means art created without conscious control – creating organic shapes Those artist that painted surrealism work is called as “Surrealist”. Their paintings were filled with familiar objects‚ which were painted to look strange or mysterious. They hoped their odd paintings would make people look at things in a different way and change the way they felt about things. They thought that

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    Bibliography: Kuenzli‚ Rudolf E. "DADA Companion." DADA Companion. Web. 10 Feb. 2013. Hofmann‚ Irene E. "Documents of Dada and Surrealism: Dada and Surrealist Journals in the Mary Reynolds Collection." Artic. The Art Institute of Chicago‚ n.d. Web. 10 Feb. 2013. Gullette‚ Alan. "Surrealist Writers." Surreal. N.p.‚ 1 Mar. 1996. Web. 10 Feb. 2013. Friedman‚ George. "The Crisis of Europe and European Nationalism." Stratfor Global Intelligence. Stratfor‚ 13 Sept. 2011.

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    Music Video Analysis

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    like any film that shows formalism. Surrealist art cinema tends to subject itself to visions of sexual desire‚ violence and bizarre humour. Rihanna’s music video shows a lot of sexual desire between the couple featured throughout the video and also a lot of violence between them as demonstrated in these stills: These two shots are similar to match on action as they are not moving but the scene around them is‚ which is a feature often used in surrealist films such as the match on action shots

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    Salvador Dali was a spanish artist and surrealist icon born on May 11‚ 1904 and died in January 23 1989. (Salvador Dali) Dali had many accomplishes in the eighty-five years that he was alive‚ that a few could only dream of. Though what comes along with being famous is that your everyday life is no longers as private you want it to be. In fact their are some intriguing parts in Dali’s life that may catch some people off guard. One interesting part in his live happened before he was even born

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    Surrealism

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    unnerving‚ illogical scenes with photographic precision‚ created strange creatures from everyday objects and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself.[1] Surrealist works feature the element of surprise‚ unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur; however‚ many Surrealist artists and writers regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost‚ with the works being an artefact. Leader André Breton was explicit in his assertion that

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    Dadaism And Surrealism

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    Introduction: The 19th. century was an era of invention and discovery. The horrors of the First World War led to widespread social trauma. People found consolation in art and literature‚ and used it as a way to express their outrage caused by the war. People demanded a form of expression that was honest‚ realistic‚ and critical of political and social behaviours. This Disillusionment following the war manifested itself in a number of ways‚ sparking artistic‚ literary‚ philosophical‚ musical‚ and

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    “The persistence of memory” painted in 1931 in a town called Catalonia. It is one of Salvador’s most important and critical historical artwork of the surrealist movement and is extremely well known amongst artists all over the world. Salvador Dali was born on May 11‚ 1904 in the Spanish town of Figueres. He is one of the founding creators of the surrealist movement from the early 1900’s. The painting itself is known by millions and is even used in popular culture right into the 21’st century (The Biography

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    and the migration of European artists to America had begun‚ creating an artistic environment open to Surrealist influence . Surrealism gained immense popularity in America‚ though not in the traditional European sense. The American interpretation of Surrealism resulted in works that were viscerally unconscious; and photography proved to be the only medium that fully encompassed the American Surrealist aesthetic . It was in this year‚ 1939‚ that Penn produced Scissors Shop‚ New York (1939) (fig.1).

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    Los Dos Fridas

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    does this in a way that others would interoperate as stuff of dreams and nightmares. It is how others see her work that makes it surrealism. Frida writes‚ "I never painted dreams I painted my own reality" (Stokstad 1079). Frida Kahlo did the surrealist painting "The two Fridas" at what was probably the second most difficult time in her life. Frida was born in 1907‚ yet she would say that she was born in 1910‚ the year of Mexico ’s revolution. Many believe she did this to be closer to her Mexican

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    attributed to the fact the it did not surface until the end of World War I. The first major work‚ the Surrealist Manifesto‚ was written by Andre Brenton and he described Surrealism as a “fusion of elements of fantasy with elements of the modern world to form a kind of superior reality” (Gregory‚ 4166-4167). Surrealists believed in the innocent eye‚ that art was created in the unconscious mind (Mak 1). Surrealists based their work on emotions‚ imagination and dreams. They used methods such as hallucinogens

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