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Paintings de Magritte
Hope
Mermaids
Egos
This is not a pipe
Facade
From: http://www.ee.pdx.edu/~igal/visocomm/surreali.html "Surrealism is the period between the World Wars, begun by André Breton in 1924. He along with René Magritte, Max Ernst and very visibly Salvador Dali took off all chokes from art. Their painting style combined all the elements and smashed them together with a demented sense of humor. Typical drawings include: trains coming out of chimneys, melted clocks and spider-giraffes-from-Hell. "The movement represented a reaction against what its members saw as the destruction wrought by the "rationalism" that had guided European culture and politics in the past and had culminated in the horrors of World War I. Surrealism was a means of reuniting conscious and unconscious realms of experience so completely that the world of dream and fantasy would be joined by the everyday ration world in an absolute reality, a surreality" (Pioch). Through using the elements to a maximal advantage, the Surrealists harnessed yet another element, that of the reunited conscious/unconscious into one blinding vision of pure emotion." _____________________________________________________ Magritte's styles invokes a state of hallucinogenic emotions in me. As Man moves towards the twenty-first century, he has tried to rationalize, systemize, and synthesize everything so that he forgets the meaning behind anything and knows only a word for it. Surrealists seem to look at the object, feel the feeling, and hear the sound, know what it is but they do not know, or rather, they neglect what word rational people have given it. So Magritte's "Pipe" is in fact a pipe but it is not a pipe. You look at it and you think "pipe", he looks at it and thinks "****". The word does not matter but he knows what it is. You don't. Example: Being a disciple of any religion has come to mean going to a respective place of worship. A person who believes in a faith that may be parallel or exactly alike but does not practice in public, i.e. a respective place of worship, has become an icon of infidelity and a damned soul. The systemized word is "disciple". Is a disciple one who publicly annouces his faith, does this confirm his obedience to is god(s)? Or is the one who practices and believes in the same faith, but does not publicly proclaim it a true follower? A surrealist answer is both. Both experience the same faith, the same feeling, but expresses it in different ways. But a rationalist "norm" for a disciple has been defined as a "church/synagogue/mosque/whatever-goer. A surrealist believes not in the norm or the systemized thinking of a rationalist but rather the essence of the feeling that both disciples have. _______________________________________________________________ So surrealists, in short, de-systemized the world of words to find anything, everything and nothing's true essence through expressive, thought-provoking art.
