Salvador Dali is a Surrealist painter. I understand what Surrealism is. But what does it have to do with "soft watches" ? Please refer: http://www.tuitionplaza.com/tutoring/question.asp?QID=2364
2007-11-12 20:09:58 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Drawing & Illustration
Great artist.........use your imagination a little.
2007-11-12 20:12:57 · answer #1 · answered by rainbowmatrixs 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Oh I love that painting!
Well doesn't 'surrealism' mean using your imagination? Completely imaginary? Well if you look at 'Soft Watches,' one of the clock is covered in ants. Another one is on top of a human face. They're all like liquid; they don't have a definite shape. I think that's what makes this painting so imaginary.
Sorry I'm only 13, so I don't think I could help much.
2007-11-12 20:22:03 · answer #2 · answered by jasmine 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The point of surrealism was to use fantastic images and/or to position things in unusual ways in order to represent unconscious ideas and desires. It creates a stretch in thinking and perceiving. Its absurdity makes us stop and pause and consider the work and what it means.
Soft watches is just one example of surrealism. A common and rigid object is transformed on the canvas in a way we have not seen before, and positioned next to objects that would normally not be seen together, in order to express particular concepts or invoke certain thoughts.
While the artist himself may have had particular purpose in mind, the viewer may come to different conclusions about the paintings. In the soft watches painting, we are drawn to consider time in various ways, particularly ways we are not used to viewing it in.
2007-11-12 20:40:39 · answer #3 · answered by raindreamer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Soft watches were just something he liked to paint. He created several masterpieces using soft watches. Soft watches ARE surrealism just like the tree growing out of the block is.
2007-11-13 07:25:24 · answer #4 · answered by suzb49 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The "soft watches" are part of what makes that particular piece "surrealistic."
Perhaps, you do not know what surrealism means.
2007-11-13 10:04:01 · answer #5 · answered by Vince M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a great painter, surrealist artist that came from the dadaist movement which is an anti-aesthetic movement, relies on unusual perspectives and symbols to express realistic but not logical elements of dreams, one of his popular work is "the persistence of memory".
2016-04-03 22:19:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
surrealism is an art movement whose subject are mostly dreams......just enjoy the arts , no questions
2007-11-12 21:33:38 · answer #7 · answered by Gerry inx 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the clocks ?
2007-11-12 20:26:00 · answer #8 · answered by gahskug 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋