1/2/10 Homework: Surrealism

First lesson of art for 2010 (YAY), with a new teacher, Mrs Vincent, it's time to get moving...

So, "Look up the word SURREALISM. Write your definition of the word."

After a rather intensive Google search, I realised that a traditional definition (one of only one or two sentences) would not be applicable to this word. Here is my attempt to define the word in

less than fifty words.

Surrealism is an artistic style and movement that attempts to express the subconscious and/or non rational using visual imagery and -this is a new word for me that I found on

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/surrealism/ ) - incongruous juxtaposition (that basically means that

things don't really fit together or make sense when used together- especially when those 'items' are disturbing or unconventional in the first place) without an intention to make the work logically comprehensible.

Fail, that was a few more than fifty words.

Also, we were asked to name two surrealist artist and find two works from each of them.

The first artist I chose was Vladamir Kush. Here are two of his works:

I really liked many of his works, here is a link to a few others, and the source of these ones:

http://www.jp-

petit.org/Presse/kush_surrealiste_russe/kush1.htm Of course, his works are not restricted to this site, a simple Google search will get you some more results.

Ok, next artist, this is the guy everyone thinks of when they think 'surrealism'... melting clock? Ringing any bells? Well yes, thats who I am talking about- Salvador Dali. He also did this one, I KNOW you have seen it before, but I really like it: