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i 'm just curious..well andre breton, tzara, Elyar, lotreamon, rembau, bouniouel...

..............Hi there, personnally I just like hard realism'

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<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: hubird on 2004-09-09 11:10 ]</font>

Surrealism seems the hardest form of realism to me....

as in paintings? Or in a more general sense, covering all genre of art?

forgot to address the main issue:
In terms of paintings, I think I like impressionism or post impressionism more, artists like (checks timeline) CeZanne or Gaugin.. Surrealism to me, reads Dali. And while his stuff is wacky and psycho, the whole Dada deriven art movement seemed more like a circus. A race of who can be the whackiest, so to speak. It looks to me that impressionism still worked under the confines of reality at its basic level, and so seems to me a more "controlled" form of art. (it had some basic rules I think)

Of course, nothing beats Art Nouveau for me. Love both paintings and architecture from that era. Also the thinkers of the time were great too.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: kensuguro on 2004-09-09 10:13 ]</font>

The first time I saw piece by Dali I knew that this form of art appealed to me.

I confess to my ignorance of the art form as a whole though.

I think my life is pretty much surreal, and I like it that way.

R

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of course, I do have lots of respect for surrealism anyhow.

Ken: Have you ever checked out J. M. W. Turner? He died a few decades before the impressionists, a half century before the expressionists, and longer than that before the advent of "abstract art". But IMHO he started them all.

There are some paintings by Monet that demonstrate the lineage perfectly. They have cold backgrounds with little splashes of light and warmth, and there's one (set in Venice IIRC) that almost perfectly duplicates a Turner.

My favourite painting, "Slaveship: Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying", is in the Boston Museum of Fine Art. The rest are all at the Tate and National Gallery in London. I highly recommend to anyone who loves colour and contrast that you check 'em out!

Sorry for the hijack!

Don't know much about art, but this painting has haunted me for years (I don't understand why):



Ophelia by Sir John Everett Millais

so that idea by Nick Cave (performed by Kylie Minogue) wasn't exactly new ...

performed in a theatre show a few years back called "After Magritte" by Tom Stoppard.

It attempts to force surrealist images into an explainable circumstance, you know, start with a very puzzling tableau and then work back to see Why that lady is playing the tuba with a policeman looking through the window etc.,etc

worth a look if it is ever produced in your area

I 'm in deep walk in surrealism for 2 years now. All started when i found the "anthology of black humor" and a small book called "what is surrealism¨ in my library (both written by andre breton) which i took with me in a journey. By now i have read all breton's writings and now i have a deep interest in modern art (and art in general) theory and philosophy. By the way i don't like Dali, (the paintings and the critical parania method are ok but i don't admire the person at all). For anyone interested i suggest reading the manifests of surrealism.

This is an extraordinary image of the first ET that landed on Earth in my kitchen (~900KB jpg). As surreal as it gets








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