Art Appreciation/Education “class” #6: Dada and Surrealism

7/1/05 | republicanprofessor

[kk22tt]

Thanks. This is interesting.

[Republicanprofessor]

Interesting how you suggest three areas about which I don't know that much.

I did do a little on Japanese art in the thread below. My five main ideas are in reply #25.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1432458/posts

Otherwise, I've never studied graphic art, and the little I know about textile is limited as well. So other Freepers will have to chime in on those areas when they can.

[Republicanprofessor]

Yes, I agree. But the element of chance that Arp added in those glued collages will be very influential in the work of Pollock.....stay tuned.

In fact, the work and ideas of the Surrealists, as well as the Expressionists and Cubists, will all influence Pollock and other Abstract Expressionists.

[Argh]

Hello there, fellow insomniac, and thank you for your continuing efforts!

[Liz]

Any discussion of Surrealism should include Man Ray who also pioneered the use
of solarization in photography. Here is his famous lips painting, configured into
an art museum poster.

[Liz]

FOR FURTHER STUDY, SURREALIST WEBSITE FEATURES EVERY ARTIST IN THE GENRE


http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:IziqkcAu2WgJ:surrealists.classifieds4u.co.uk/viewPicture/206/

[Argh]

Ten years ago, travelling through the Canadian Maritimes, I went to the Beaverbrook Art Gallery (yes, THAT Lord Beaverbrook) in Fredericton, New Brunswick (population ~ 48,000). I found there this huge (13' by 10') painting by Dali "Santiago El Grande". (The site won't allow me to link the picture directly here). Those are four tornado storms where the stallion's genitals would be. I stared at it with my mouth open, partly because it's a very powerful painting and partly because I couldn't decide if I should laugh out loud.

[MinuteGal]

I'd like to see a piece on portrait painters, from Gainsborough to Cassat, Reynolds, Sargent and beyond.

I find portraits fascinating. They bring the famous, infamous and the sometimes obscure to life. History is always illuminated and sometimes illusions are deflated when viewing a portrait.

I must confess I spent a lot of time viewing a special showing of John Singer Sargent's portraits at the Smithsonian during some March for Justice tourist time.

I loved to see what the wealthy grande dames of his time looked like, how they and their children dressed, the hair-dos, the jewelry...all the details.

I cheerfully admit it was a woman's thing for an hour or so, LOL.

Leni

[Republicanprofessor]

I am not as keyed into the history of photography as I should be, so perhaps that's why Man Ray falls through some cracks. I admire his Rayographs very much, and I've always loved Gift with the iron.

[Republicanprofessor]

That is an intense image of a horse, although it is hard to see the tornado details on the much smaller computer screen.

That looks like a more recent Dali image. Although I think Dali got carried away with himself and self-promotion and any kind of publicity late in life, I still am struck by these images of the Crucifixion and the Last Supper.

[Argh]

I bought a poster of that Crucifixion painting at the Met about 20 years ago. I'd forgotten, it's stashed away in a closet!

[Dante3]

The third face bears a similarity to a photo I saw of a woman with loads of piercing and tattooing, who is part of the contemporary body modification movement.