BVa 312 Art history

BVa 312 Art history

SURREALISM AND DADAISM...

Dadaism came to be as a reaction to World War I and the nationalism that many thought had led to the war.

•output was wildly diverse, ranging from performance art to poetry, photography, sculpture, painting, and collage. 

•The movement dissipated with the establishment of Surrealism

Key Ideas...

 the focus of this first conceptual art movement was more focused on the artists was not on crafting aesthetically pleasing objects but on making works that often upended bourgeois sensibilities and that generated difficult questions about society, the role of the artist, and the purpose of art.

KEY ARTIST

•Francis Picabia

•Hugo ball

•Hans arp

•Marcel Duchamp

•Raoul Hausmann

•Max Ernst

•Kurt schwitters

Summery of surrealist movement...

Surrealism is a 20^th era Advant-Garde movement in art and literature to release the potential of the “sub-conscious mind”. Which begun in the early 1920s. How I will be interpreting this is with a take on the “sub-conscious mind and how I sub-consciously add my own features into what I depict the model in the portrait is. The subconscious is the part of the mind that is not fully aware of what we think it means but it influences how feelings, actions and visual ideas are portrayed.

Female surrealist:

DOROTHEA TANNING
BIRTHDAY (1942)

•Birthday is a self-portrait that Dorothea Tanning painted to commemorate her 30th birthday. Viewed up close, one notices the infinite rooms recessing into the background, symbolizing Tanning's unconscious mind. Many Surrealists felt architectural imagery was well-suited to expressing notions of a labyrinthine self that changes and expands over time

Frida Kahlo
What the Water Gave Me (1938)

•Kahlo paints an alternative self-portrait, one in which the more traditional facial portrait has been replaced by an array of symbols and recurring motifs. The artist includes portraits of her parents, a traditional Tehuana dress, a perforated shell, a dead humming bird, two female lovers, a skeleton, a crumbling skyscraper, a ship set sail, and a woman drowning.

Leonora Carrington

•depicts the artist in a domestic interior, extending an open hand to a female hyena. “You may not believe in magic but something very strange is happening at this very moment,” she once said. “Your head has dissolved into thin air and I can see the rhododendrons through your stomach.”

Leonor Fini

• Fini’s self-portraits and mythological paintings focused on eroticism and dreams. “Paintings, like dreams, have a life of their own and I have always painted very much the way I dream,” she once said. 

Other surrealist artist....

André Masson
Battle of Fishes (1926)

•Masson was one of the most enthusiastic followers of Breton's automatic writing, having begun his own independent experiments in the early 1920s. He would often produce art under exacting conditions, using drugs, going without sleep, or sustenance in order to relax conscious control of his art making so that he could access his unconscious. 

Salvador Dalí
The Accommodations of Desire (1929)

•Dalí developed the paranoid-critical method, which involved systematic irrational thought and self-induced paranoia as a way to access his unconscious. He referred to the resulting works as "hand-painted dream photographs" because of their realism coupled with their eerie dream quality. 

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

•https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/29/marcel-duchamp-fountain-women-art-history?CMP=share_btn_link

Andre Breton helped diverge and create the movement of surrealism.