Surrealism
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| Two Horns, Jeffrey Harp. |
Dadaism propelled many movements from its ideology, however, the most renown movement was Surrealism, founded in the 1920s. The Surrealist artists were notorious for attempting to explore the unconscious mind through expressive techniques. In order to reflect the language of the subconscious, artists often used juxtapositions in the work to portray more than one single reality, often presenting a creation which the viewer is not able to passively understand at first.
The more surreal the piece becomes the larger the difference in realities is; appearing dream-like. Surrealism has had a major influence on nearly every form of media and art, running form cinema to literature. However, surrealist influences are not very common in graphic design, aside from the likes of Saul Bass, especially in the world of typographic design.
Salvador Dali is by far the most famous Surreal artist, and one could say one of the most famous artists surrounding all movements of all time. His creations are renown for their detached reality aspects and incomprehensible themes. A well known example of his success is 'The Persistence of Memory', which depicts a very barren landscape with peculiar subjects in the forefront including a series of melting clocks. The meaning behind this painting is said to be inspired by Einstein's 'Theory of Relativity'. It is said to be reflecting how the concept of time in the dreamworld is eradicated, and how soon in a post-Einstein world, due to relativity, we will not be bale to keep track of tie merely using machines such as stop-watches or clocks.
Peronsally I love Salvador Dali's work, it laughs at everything that is wrong with the middle class world and their worries, whilst addressing problems that the typical human, no matter what era they find themselves in, often ponder and question. As we grow older we lose the heightened ability to use our imagination in everyday life, which saddens me deeply. Dali, however, jolted a shot of adrenaline into society's imagination as a whole, and still reminds us to this day that the art of imagination is one of the most important elemnts we can use in our lives.
The more surreal the piece becomes the larger the difference in realities is; appearing dream-like. Surrealism has had a major influence on nearly every form of media and art, running form cinema to literature. However, surrealist influences are not very common in graphic design, aside from the likes of Saul Bass, especially in the world of typographic design.
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| Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali. |
Peronsally I love Salvador Dali's work, it laughs at everything that is wrong with the middle class world and their worries, whilst addressing problems that the typical human, no matter what era they find themselves in, often ponder and question. As we grow older we lose the heightened ability to use our imagination in everyday life, which saddens me deeply. Dali, however, jolted a shot of adrenaline into society's imagination as a whole, and still reminds us to this day that the art of imagination is one of the most important elemnts we can use in our lives.
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