what does anyone know about surrealism and its relations to art and painting?

Question

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Answer 1

try this site:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealism

Answer 2

Yes, this type of relationship is possible, because I've experienced it. I gave examples below, the brother/sister friend is the first example. At the same time, there will always be some sort of sexual/love thoughts floating around, even if they never manifest outside of one's own mind. You want to know experience, so here is mine. I remember one male friend I had when I was a teenager. I never had any interest in this guy, he was a really nice person, intelligent, friendly, and funny. I knew him for about two years, so the only time we had was to develop a brother/sister relationship. Had we known each other for longer, perhaps other things might have developed. You see, with every single close male friend I've ever had, there has been some sexual tension to one degree or another. There is one I know, and we've never done anything physical, but we did like each other very much at one time, and were considering courtship, but we didn't do that after all. I fell in love with him at the time, and it was PURE love because it did not sprout from any physical contact, no. Since then, I've had other male interests and he is now married with children, but the truth is that I never fell with him. I still have feelings for him, but I don't tell him. I respect his marriage and household. As for any other close male friends I've had, some I have kissed, and with others it was more than kissing. This is something I'm not proud of, and alhamdulillah I stopped this behavior 14 years ago. I will never return to that, it's shameful. If I'm not close to a male, and we're just acquaintances, then no, there is no sexual tension.

Answer 3

I found this site for you. I will include a bit of its contents and you can check out the rest if you think it meets what you are looking for. Best of luck on your project.

At the opening ceremony of The Art of This Century Museum on 57th St. in Manhattan, Peggy Guggenheim, the founder, was wearing one earring by Yves Tanguy, the surrealist, and another by Alexander Calder, the abstractionist. She explained to her guests that this showed her neutrality in the conflict between the often hostile schools of Abstractionism and Surrealism. That was in 1941, yet soon after, Peggy's gallery and museum became a center for abstract expressionism, under the newly coined term Modernism.

Since then, neither the Guggenheim, nor any other major player in the American art establishment, has bothered to show any neutrality. In fact, in 1941, Surrealism was declared dead and has been described as such in all art history books since that time. Therefore, the hundreds of artists working in this style who are originally from, or live in, the United States, have received no attention from critics, galleries or museums. This has left them outside the reach of three generations of Americans who, by and large, are unaware of the work done by surrealists during the second half of the century.

Michael S. Bell, a specialist in American Art, researched the surrealist phenomena while he was assistant curator at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco. His research led him to the conclusion that:
"It remains a dire need, if truth be still an honorable cause, to set forth an option upon the records of time by which considerate humanity might judge for itself the merits and the players in one of our century's most vilified and degraded forms of expression."

In the Beginning

Surrealism as we know it today is closely related to some forms of abstract art. In fact, they shared similar origins, but they diverged on their interpretation of what those origins meant to the aesthetic of art.

At the end of the First War World, Tristan Tzara, leader of the Dada movement, wanted to attack society through scandal. He believed that a society that creates the monstrosity of war does not deserve art, so he decided to give it anti-art–not beauty but ugliness. With phrases like Dada destroys everything! Tzara wanted to offend the new industrial commercial world–the bourgeoisie. However, his intended victims were not insulted at all. Instead they thought that this rebellious new expression opposed, not them but the "old art" and the "old patrons" of feudalism and church dominion. In fact, the bourgeoisie embraced this "rebellious" new art so thoroughly that anti-art became Art, the anti-academy the Academy, the anti-conventionalism the Convention, and the rebellion through chaotic images, the status quo.

One group of artists, however, did not embrace this new art that threw away all which centuries of artists had learned and passed on about the craft of art. The Surrealist movement gained momentum after the Dada movement. It was lead by Andre Breton, a French doctor who had fought in the trenches during the First World War. The artists in the movement researched and studied the works of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Some of the artists in the group expressed themselves in the abstract tradition, while others, expressed themselves in the symbolic tradition.

Answer 4

like Vincent van go and others like him, using mind altering drugs, van go used cocaine, other smoked weed, you get a different view of the world. a drug free surrealism experiance can obtained by building a medicine sweat lodge