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mardi 28 août 2018

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By Edward Phillips


Most people who are amateurs in artistry do not know about the existence of surrealism. This is because this kind of artistry is ancient. More so, one cannot learn about all ancient arts in twenty-four hours. It takes time to master artistry. Surrealism, a movement that founded their art on writing and visual art, was established during the 1920s. The creativity and imagination of this movement were wild, captivating and interesting. So many surrealist artists MI has have created great interest in the movement. However, it is wise to know the origin of surrealism.

The movement of surrealism based their works on imagination by the unconscious or the subconscious. The movement was however influenced by another movement that was known as Dadaism. More so, surrealism also adopted their way of thinking from a great philosopher as well as a renowned dream expert. They used the imagination of these people to come up with their unique creativity.

Surrealism also has some Dadaism roots, a movement founded many years ago. The main difference between surrealism and Dadaism is that the former was much inspired by urban life and the ordinary day-to-day lives of people. More so, the creativity of surrealism was based on positivity while Dadaists were nihilistic and tended to use negative expressions so much.

Thirdly, the first writers of surrealism were so hesitant about allowing visual artistry into their movement. This is mainly because they emphasized automatism, which is also known as automatic writing. This kind of writing is based on free expression of the subconscious mind without any inhibition. The movement feared that if they adopted visual artistry, it would affect their spontaneity of expression.

There are two main visual art techniques that surrealism built. This included frottage, an art where one would place a sheet of paper on a surface that is grained. Then, the artiste would rub a crayon or a pencil on the sheet of paper. Another interesting technique was called grattage that used the same principle but with the use of pigments.

This movement became political due to the effect of Andre Breton, a poet. This poet was very radical and had a hope of freeing the ordinary person from societal rationalism. Within no time, the movement adopted the skepticism of the poet as it had similar views. It, therefore, ended up becoming dependent on Andre Bretons political views.

This movement became accused that they were sexist. The reason behind this was the way of dressing of female artistes. Since the group photos somehow did not feature the women, they started experimenting all types of dressing including cross-dressing. In addition to that, some artistes crafted images that represented women as lesser creatures or monsters. Over time, women started to depict themselves in a wild way. They expressed themselves as either animals or some other mythical creatures.

The surrealism movement, however, faced an enormous challenge during the 2nd World War. They all separated and ran to the US of America because of the fear of being persecuted. This did not affect their imagination. Their artworks have been carried on from century to century. Also, more and more artistes have a great interest in adopting this unique style.




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