Monday, 2 February 2015

Surrealism

Surrealism
 
Surrealism was a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings.

 John Armstrong;
Was a British painter and designer. He was born in Hastings, the son of a clergyman, a factor which could have had an impact on his interest in religious subjects. He originally studied law, then in 1913–14 attended St John's Wood Art School.
After wartime service (WW1) he embarked on a career as a theatre designer in London.  His first solo exhibiton was in 1928 at Leicester Galleries in 1928. In the late 1930s he began working on the paintings for which he is best known, precisely delineated dream-like images influenced by Surrealism. Armstrong's experience made him become a pacifist. He died in 1973.

Key themes;
 About your dreams, juxtaposition, behaviour and emotions.
 
Key figures in the Surrealist movement;
Andre Breton,Salvador Dali and Frida Kahlo was all key figures in the surrealism movement.
 
Who was it influenced by?
Sigmund Freud explored the human mind and how dreams effect us. Society does not allow us to express our desires and emotions, they become repressed - locked away in our unconscious mind.
 
When we dream, these repressed desires and emotions are played out in symbolic form e.g. dreaming of a Mountain could represent a challenge or obstacle in the dreamer's life.
 
Sources;
https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=surrealism&meta=&safe=active&gws_rd=ssl

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