Find 15 instigant works of surrealism
O surrealism is two artistic movements that most produce instigating and enigmatic works, cheias of meanings to be uncovered.
The fez part of the vanguard of Europe, which formed a sight or run in Europe, not the beginning of the 20th century, and which we will seek to reformulate in a way to produce and appreciate art.
Nesse context, surge or surrealism, as a manifesto in 1924. A vertente valorizava or free and spontaneous thought in order to raise unusual, irreais and fanciful dinners. Trust to follow, some of these works and understand what they mean.
1. Persistence of memory - Salvador Dali
Persistence of memory é a feita fabric em 1931 hair Catalan painter Salvador Dalí. Tell-I know that I was raised by the artist, I was satisfied with eating a complaint camembert e ficar indisposed working at home.
Nesse trabalho, or artist exhibits a typical landscape of Catalonia and a dry olive tree, a tree very present in the region. There is also the presence of deformed religions e melted, as well as a prostrate body that is not found.
The melted relógios seriam for Dalí uma symbolism of flaccidity and sexual impotência, bem like an imprecise noção da passagem do tempo. Give them a fly pousada on top as a reference that "o tempo voa".
The only rigid logic that appears in the work is turned to the bottom of the various forms that are piled up on the same number, alluding to a state of putrefação, wave or object, which symbolizes or tempo, is eaten as carniça.
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2. You lovers - René Magritte
René Magritte is the author of the work You lovers, produced in 1928.
In the cloth, we see a home to a woman beijando, meanwhile, their heads wrapped by you. This intriguing work is scandalously contradictory between intimidation and impossibility of contact.
We can interpret dinner in different ways, since it can symbolize superficiality in relationships, incapable of showing itself completely to or partner (a) and a no connection sentimental or sexual between you marry.
It is an allegory about frustrated deserts and a feeling of isolation that can arise within a loving relationship.
It is interesting to observe that these reflections are tended to up-to-date and deepened, in times of a "liquid modernity", as defined by the Polish thinker Zygmunt Bauman (1925 - 2017).
Magritte used this resource to hide the two characters in various fabrics. O painter appreciated a lot uma atmosphere of mystery he proposes deep questions in his work.
To know about other works by the painter, read: Works to understand René Magritte.
3. Um cão andaluz - Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel
When we mistake surrealist works, we normally think of plastic arts, mainly painting. Meanwhile, this current influencing also the production of other languages, such as cinema.
Um cão andaluz uma dessas cinematographic manifestations and it became an icon of surrealism. Conceived em 1929 by Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel, or a film traces a totally innovative narrative for the time.
In the history there is no chronological or logical continuity of two events and there is a clear reference to the facts of the psychoanalysis Freud's e ao dream universe.
Or film é mudo and shows a character performing unimagined actions, such as a famous passage in which a woman's eyeball is cut as a navalha.
All a narrative and recheated of absurd, which can be interpreted as a non-interior passeio of the human mind, revealing the violent, disturbing and irrational impulses that are not unconscious.
4. Café-da-manhã em pele - Meret Oppenheim
Café da manhã em pele, by the Swiss artist Meret Oppenheim, foi feito em 1936, when the artist is 23 years old.
O work consists of a game of chá com pires, colher and xícara covered by gazela peel.
This work is curious and causes strangeness, pois challenge the thought of the senses, to the extent that it suggests an association between an everyday object, used in contact with the mouth, and the impossibility of using the same.
Ao observe this unusual set of chá, ocorre not spectator um misto of curiosity and rejection, nojo e atração, quase as we could feel the texture of the animal skin in the language.
An artist was known for the creation of various objects that instigate and provoke surprise, amazement and contradictions, in a surrealist style.
5. O veado ferido - Frida Kahlo
A Mexican production of Frida Kahlo is marked by mysterious dinners and details that carry intense and autobiographical meanings.
O veado ferido, from 1946 é um desses works. Nele, an artist exposed all to his vulnerability e tempt expunge sentiments of sofrimento in front of the precarious condition of health and years of conflicts not matching as also painter, Diego Rivera.
Here, Frida appears in the form of a veado em meio à forest. O animal has new arrows that perfumes your body, while your feição remains placid and haughty, with a clear sign of resilience.
A parallel can also be made between the arrowed body of the animal with a biblical passage in which São Sebastião is tied to a tree and gravely affected by arrows.
Although Frida Kahlo's work is frequently associated with the surrealist movement and has been Exposed once in a show together with painters da vertente, the negava that fosse de fato surreal.
Truly, your intriguing fabrics express her most intimate universe.
Leita também esse artigo that we prepared about a Mexican artist: The most dazzling works of Frida Kahlo.
6. Or carnival of Arlequim - Joan Miro
Em 1924, Joan Miró produziu a fabric Or carnival of Arlequim. A work and compost by many fantastic elements that are interlinked in a profusion of cores.
As a painter, you have beings of various forms and sizes in a comfortable way divided each year by a line that delimits or gives walls. On the direct side, we also see a janela, where it is possible to observe the sun and a construction, which would be the Eiffel Tower.
Or harlequim appears with a huge bigode and viola body. Another outstanding figure is a kind of robô that appears playing an instrument.
Dinner represents o pessoal and imaginative world The painter, who produced based on his deliriums caused by fostering his moments of greatest financial difficulty.
7. A star hunter - Varus remedies
Remedios Varo was an important woman at a surreal dinner. A painter born in Catalonia, in Spain, more mudou-se for França and I have contacted with artists of surrealism, being influenced by them. Later he fixed his residence in Mexico and by la ficou.
His work is loaded with symbols and dreamlike elements that transit through them. fantasy and magical universe.
Em A star hunter, from 1956, Remedios exhibits in his work a feminine figure that carries a gaiola with a lua inside. Na outra mão tem uma rede de caçadora.
A roupa that this personagem shows is like um large luminous cloak feito de cosmos e stars. There is an opening at the height of the little boy, suggesting a black buraco or the same vulva.
8. A traição das images - René Magritte
Or quadro A traição das images I was painted em 1929 Belgian hair artist René Magritte. Nessa tela, or surrealist artist exhibits a figure of a hookah and inserts a kind of legend where it is read "Isto não é um cachimbo”.
A painter's idea was to make evident the difference between representation and reality. To say that the figure of the hookah is not a hookah, Magritte jumps with the word and the image, making a visual game of irony.
9. O Filho do Homem - Rene Magritte
O filho do homem was also painted by the artist René Magritte. A cloth, dating from 1964, was initially conceived as a self-portrait. Meanwhile, later, the painter included other elements.
A maçã verde que paira em in front of the face of homem traced us uma unreal and fanciful atmosphere. Aliás, or Cenário, as common as it seems, also carries something somber.
A little perceptible detail at a first moment is the skeleton arm of the individual, which is represented as it is located on the coast, as it can be seen through the coastline.
These are some of the iconic works of Magritte, which I once commented:
Hair less ela hides or face partially. Bem, então você tem a face apparent, a maçã, hiding or visible, more hidden, or real face of the person. It's something that happens constantly. All that we see hides another thing, and we always want to see what is hidden, hair that we see.
10. Abaporu - Tarsila do Amaral
Not Brazil, or surrealist movement also manifests itself, inspiring and instigating Brazilian artists and the public. Some of the works with inspiration for the famous movement modernist fabric Abaporu, painted by Tarsila do Amaral em 1928.
Here, we see a human figure of distorted proportions in an arid and burning environment. A representation of huge hands and feet is given, pois, an artist was looking for valorization of braçal work e a ligação do povo brasiliro com a terra.
This table is a reference to the history of Brazilian art, being an icon of Brazil.
11. As duas Fridas - Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter who used many autobiographical elements in her works, tracing a fantastic and symbolic universe in her canvases.
Na cloth As duas Fridas, from 1939, we can notice the presence of the surrealist cenário. Here, we see two self-portraits of the painter. There are two women sitting next to each other.
Uma das “Fridas” wears a typical Mexican costume, tucking in its roots; To another, wear a rendered dress, making reference to Europe and the influence that the continent exercises on it.
Elas is connected hairs seus corações, knowing that “Mexican Frida” is sure of a small portrait of Diego Rivera, her husband, from whom he had been separated on occasion.
As new years founded, it revealed a gloomy and catastrophic atmosphere, in which the open legs of a number of women face an allusion to their sexuality. Currently, this work is found in the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Mexico.
12. Or impossível - Maria Martins
A Brazilian artist who flew as surrealism was the sculptor Maria Martins (1894-1973).
In his work Or impossível, finished em 1949, she explores at noção de wishful and incomplete through two figures that were touched, but, by their claws, they repelled each other.
The artist, despite not being currently known, was a very important woman for art outside of Brazil, collaborating intensely for the elaboration of the Biennial Foundation and its first editions.
Além disso, she was donut from um work strong and instigating, where she questions and reveals aspects of feminine sexuality, among other pertinent questions to women.
13. In Voluptas Mors, Philippe Halsman
A surrealist photography in questão was a joint work between Philippe Halsman and Salvador Dalí, exhibited in 1949.
Not in the 1940s, the two artists began a series of photographic works, four elements were organized in a way to create unusual and curious images.
In Voluptas Mors, which is translated into Portuguese for “no prazer ha mrte” is one of these images, in which the figure of a caveira macabra is formed from two bodies of women.
Dalí also appears at dinner, exhibiting an expression of horror as an olhar fixo. I had a lot of appreciation for photography and inspired other artists.
An example of the film's letter Or silence two innocents (1991), which shows a photograph of a mulher with a borboleta in front of her mouth, inside the borboleta one sees an image of caveira feita de mulheres nuas.
14. A face da war - Salvador Dali
To work A face da Guerra I was painted not the end of 1940 hair Catalan artist Salvador Dalí. Nessa epoch to Europe lived the horrors of the Second World War and Spain (country of origin of the painter) brought the bitter fruits of the Spanish Civil War.
Salvador Dalí was spending a season in the US when he conceived or quadro. Nele, we see a figure of um frowning faceInside, there are two serious eyes and the mouth of it, there are caveiras, and inside, two holes, dessas caveiras, we can see more skulls.
Foi dessa form that the artist managed to squeeze "logic" out of war, which produced destruction and die continuously. There are still snakes surrounding the face, em sinal of terror and fear.
The work can be seen at present in the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, in the Netherlands.
15. Eu e a village - Marc Chagall
The Russian artist Marc Chagall found himself with his fabrics that display fanciful images, with people floating and other elements incommunicable in a extraordinary atmosphere.
Or even it was 1911 e o surrealist manifesto só viria to be elaborated in 1924, meanwhile, Chagall já tinha produções that follow the preceitos of the movement, as is the case of Eu e a village, which also mixes cubist influence.
Na canvas, the life of the painter and represented in a way to mix elements of seu pastado No interior of Russia, like a goat, which appears in the first plane in a small city of the year I founded.
O homem verde represents or own artist and a moça de ponta cabeça shows us the dream world of Chagall.
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