BVA312 Art history week 1

                

                   First Lessons BVA312 Art History.

This years Art History is relating towards the 16th - 20th century art and movements. Previous years we have learnt most of the "Isms" of the art world dating from the classics to the more abstract and revolutionized art such as futurism or Surrealism. These have helped me have an influence of the way I treat my own new and producing art and effecting my dissensions on what I personally want to create and make a career out of. 

My favorite Era will defiantly be from the Avant-Garde 20th century era, Surrealism to be exact. Surrealism was a passionate movement starting around the 1920's for the arts, literature, poetry, plays etc... To create a base movement for the "Sub-conscious mind" for people who want to feel freedom without having to think about it. 

                                  Above: piece of Salvidor Dali: melting clocks.

https://www.theartstory.org/movement-surrealism.htm

By using your mind subconsciously and creating new and inventive ideas that are fresh and loosely thought of.  Learning about Surrealism has defiantly effected my choices and ideas on what to create out of using traditional mediums such as painting with oils and manipulating the scene to be more narrative and have a more intense feel of imagery for my paintings.

I have a selection of favorite artist from the classics era such as Michael Angelo and the structures of Leonardo Da Vinci's life like drawings. To the Era of Abstract art of the mentally incompatible Van Gogh, then veering into Frida Khalos 

                                                   Above: Frida Khalo painting.

http://steambakes.com/frida-kahlo-baby-painting/remember-diego-rivera-and-frida-kahlo-widewalls-frida-kahlo-baby-painting/

Surrealist and expressionist idea of portraits and then finally the intake of Salvidor Dali's wild ideas of subjects that have merged from the Andre Breton's theory of the "Sub - Conscious mind". They all have influenced my art one way or another creating new and exciting ideas for me to address through the flick of a brush, or a wave of a Wacom pen. Helping me have that want to immerse their ideas into the newer world of what art is today.

For my Last year of my degree I would defiantly like to learn about new and invented art created from the old movements and to find their purpose and what they stand for. Along with also looking back into more of the political movement styled art and the history that came from it.