surreal painting and abstract painting?

Question

are they same or different?

Answer 1

Different as surreal can ressemble a distorted actual thing whereas abstract is a combination of colours and strokes which may have some ressemblance to something but not necessarily.

Answer 2

They are quite different.

Surrealist art is an expression of the subconcious if you will. It's images are figurative, although often distorted and presented in absurd or dreamscape scenes. Surrelism was founded, and expounded upon by Andre Breton, who originally was a dadaist. In many respects, surrealism was a response to the insanity and horrors of WW1 that so devastated western Europe, and French society in particular. Along with the likes of Salvador Dali, Luis Bunuel and Paul Eluard, they counted among their influences the work of Sigmund Freud. Check out works by Joan Miro and Rene Magritte for familiar surrelist images.

Abstract painting is generally non-figurative, and is best expressed in works by the likes of Wassily Kandinsky (often considered the father of modern abstract painting). Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko are american abstract expressionist artists who gained huge popularity after WWII.

Understanding abstract art isn't all that easy. The following is an excerpt from an online essay that sums it up nicely. (link is below)

"What we now call Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York in the early 1940s. It was not so much a well-defined school of art, as a way of thinking. The Abstract Expressionists made the final break from the rigid conventions of the past, by redefining what it meant to be an artist. In essence, they rebelled against what the rest of the art world judged to be acceptable.

Although the idea of abstraction had been around for some time, the Abstract Expressionists went a lot further. They began to emphasize, not only the finished product, but the actual process of painting. They experimented in how they interacted with the paint, the canvas, and their tools; and they paid attention to the physical qualities of the paint itself, its texture, color and shape. "

Answer 3

Surreal works are usually portray in a naturalistic or realistic manner but in a dream-like method. In another word, the work will look real but illogical. Famous surreal artist includes, Rene Magritte and Salvador Dali.
Abstraction is a rejection toward representation; therefore, the works do not resemble the subjects. Early pioneer of abstraction includes Kandinksy.

If you look at it in a general sense, they are different because they are two distinct style. For me, one has some type of representation while the other doesn't.

Answer 4

I believe to answer your question is just to say. Abstract is a genera of art which surrealism fits inside. Abstract isn't a style of art like surrealism, but a bigger category. Essentially anything that is not realism is abstract. As these are the main two categories. Usually surrealism is based off of something real, but the act of making something other than realism is abstraction.

Answer 5

You must be on devient art.They are different.