Trends and movements
Thinking Activity
This task is given by Yesha Ma'am. In this blog I am going to write about Surrealism, Dadaism and Expressionism, and I will attach my work based on these three movements.
Dramatic movements of the early 1900s.
The 19th century is an important period in literature because in this period major upheaval things happen, not just in America but across the world. The terror of the first world war sparked a sense of disillusionment that was only fueled all the more by stock market crash, the Great depression and world war 2. People started to shift on humanity and created art, music and literature. Surrealism, Dadaism and Expressionism are part of 1900s century movements, and these movements are totally different to each other.
What is art according me
I believe that art is something that makes your soul happy. If you are an artist you are always willing to make new art pieces, you always wanted to make something unique. You express your feelings through your art piece, many great artists believe that art piece is as important as thought behind it. In your art field you always wanted to get mastery and always willing perfection. For this every artist should learn continuously. At the end I wanted to say that for me art is something that makes my soul happy and calm.
Surrealism
Surrealism is an artistic movement that has had an impact on various things like on painting, sculpture, photography, literature, film.
Surrealists were inspired by Sigmund Freud’s theories of dreams and the unconscious that believed insanity was the breaking of the chains of logic, and they represented this idea in their art by creating imagery that was impossible in reality, juxtaposing unlikely forms onto unimaginable landscapes.
Surrealism art represents something which is creative and unique, and it never disappears.
The beginning of Surrealism
This movement originated in France 1920s and this movement considered the development of Dadaism. Dadaism was a nihilistic movement in art and literature started in Zurich in 1916 by a Rumanian, Tristan Tzara, an Alsation and others.
This movement formed as early as 1917, inspired by paintings of Giorgio de Chirico, he captured street locations with a hallucinatory quality. Then after 1917 he abandoned this style, but his style made an impact on Dadaist Max ernst. Max Ernst moved to Paris in 1922 as Dadaism ended and it was the beginning of Surrealism.
The painters of Surrealism
Many painters joined this movement in the 1920s. Yves Tanguy was a writer and his work de Chirico inspired him to teach himself to paint in 1923. Tanguy specialized in infinity dreamscapes featuring ambiguous figures, Alberto Giacometti was a Swiss sculptor who met Masson in 1928. He was influenced by African and Egyptian art, which he combined with the dreamlike aesthetic to create bizarre, stylized figures.
Salvedor Dali
Salvedor Dali was a Spanish painter, He joined the Surrealist movement in 1928. He captured the attention of Sigmund Freud, who preferred his work to any other Surrealist.
His most paintings feature self-torturing psycho-sexual undertones depicting what Freud characterized as the unconscious manifesting within the conscious world. His paintings border on illusion, employing a realistic draftsmanship that brought him long-lasting worldwide popularity.
One of his most famous paintings, 1931’s The Persistence of Time, features melting clocks draped on a desolate landscape.
In short, Surrealism was a revolt against all restraints on free creativity, included among the restraints to be violated were logical reason, standard morality, social and artistic convention and norms.
Here I wanted to put my Surrealism art.
Interpretation of the painting
This painting (Philosopher's Lamp ) is a surreal oil on canvas painting by artist René Magritte. This painting Completed in 1936. Here i made this drawing with single black pen.
The painting is a self-portrait. The man in the painting is looking at the audience through rather sad looking eyes. He has a pipe in his mouth, and his nose is painted to be much bigger than his other features. His nose looks more like an elephant trunk. It is buried into the pipe he is smoking. There is a table next to him with a lit candle meandering down the table. The candle is a representation that although sometimes life is not clear, one can try to at least see the imperfections clearly.
Here I wanted to add a youtube video of one surrealism painting and also other surrealism painting.
Dadaism
Dadaism was a revolutionary art movement in the early nineteenth century. This movement represents a response of the modern age. During the first world war many artists, writers and intellectuals opposed the war and they shifted to Switzerland. These artists working in Zurich, Switzerland, Dadaism quickly became an international movement that spread throughout Europe and the U.S. with centers in Paris, Cologne, Berlin, and New York City. The art, poetry, and performances created by Dadaist artists make an impact on avant-garde art in Europe.
This movement was an artistic and literary movement in Europe and the United States that began in the early twentieth century during the cultural and social upheaval following the first World War. Dadaism represents art as illogical, irrational, and absurd. Most Dadaist artists create collage, montage, and assemblage of disparate elements to create their art. These artists are left-wing political views and created work that questioned every aspect of society and culture. Dadaism brings several trends and artistic movements that occurred in Europe, including Cubism and Futurism. One of the first artists to be associated with the Dada movement was the French sculptor Marcel Duchamp. In the early 1910s, he coined the term “anti-art” to describe his readymades.
Here are some major characteristics of this movement.
Characteristic of Dadaism
Dadaism art made from found objects like images and readymade things.
Nonsensical things we find in Dadaist art. This art features irrationality, humor, and silliness.
Dadaism is Spontaneous art. It made playing with the elements of chance and encouraging spur-of-the moment creativity. At Dada shows, poems would be created by cutting words out of a single sheet of newspaper, scattering them on the ground, and then randomly organizing them onto a page.
Francis Picabia
Picabia was a famous Dadaist, he was a French printmaker and painter who often created spontaneous conceptual works. In his Dadaist self-portrait Tableau Rastrada, he collaged elements from found media to create an image depicting himself as a social-climbing playboy.
Here I put my Dadaism work, which I made with various pictures taken from a newspaper.
My Interpretation of this collage
I made this Dadaism collage with various cuttings of newspaper. The viewer can see many human pictures in this collage. There is a panda who has a human head, a lady playing piano who has a man's head, and a beautiful wing. Viewers can also find a lady who has a hand in her mouth and one painter painted that hand and one little boy felt amazement to see that. There is also a girl who is playing, and has a white wing which I drew with a weight pen. So viewers can see many things in this collage.
At the start of the twentieth century, an artistic tendency swept through Europe, spurred on by resistance to bourgeois culture and a fervent search for rejuvenated creativity. It came to be known as Expressionism. Many Words that characterize Expressionist artists and Expressionist art are ‘self’, ‘psyche’, ‘body’, ‘sexuality’, ‘nature’, and ‘spirit’. The term is so elastic that it can accommodate artists ranging from Vincent van Gogh to Egon Schiele and Wassily Kandinsky. Together, these artists tapped into very raw, true, and eternal questions, topics, and struggles that had been stirring beneath the surface and which remain familiar to us even today.
Expressionism spanned various fields: art, literature, music, theatre, and architecture. Expressionist artists sought to express emotional experience, rather than physical reality. Some famous Expressionist paintings are Edvard Munch’s The Scream, Wassily Kandinsky’s Der Blaue Reiter, and Egon Schiele’s Sitting Woman with Legs Drawn Up.
In France, the Dutch artist Van Gogh was digging deep and revealing his unusual, troubled, and colorful psyche; in Germany, the Russian Wassily Kandinsky was exploring spirituality in art as an antidote to alienation in the modern world; in Austria, Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka were fighting society’s moral hypocrisy by tackling topics such as sexuality, death, and violence; finally, Edvard Munch was making waves in Norway and all over Europe with his wild, intense expressions of the environment and his self and psyche.
Interpretation
Here I wanted to put my Expressionism art. Here I made a Vincent Van Gogh painting as my Expressionism work. In his face I put many colored round lines which create an illusion.
Here is my another Expressionism drawing, and painting.
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