A LITTLE BIT OF CULTURE
OK, so by now you have determined that I'm warped. Is there any other way to be?
Art is one of my passions...I could visit museums adnauseum...staring at the wonderful works on display. My favorite genre of art is Surrealism, which spawned from the DADA movement in the 1920's. DADA was a way of living and thinking which is similar to that of today's punkers. They lived their lives in a rather extreme way, sweeping aside the cultural, political and philosophical norms of their day. For DADAists, art and poetry were simply experiments or momentary concretions of contradictory reality.
Surrealism has also affected society even today. By opening up minds to the impossible, by stretching the boundaries of society, Surrealism changed and defined our culture. The Surrealists attacked the traditional ways of viewing the world and of thinking. In particular, the notion that reason was the preeminent human attribute and that Cartesian principals of order and clarity formed the essential structure of society.
Open up your mind to the impossible...think about things differently. View what is around you, and wonder where it originated from. And how it could be different.
Rather than read my babbling and thoughts on the subject, why don't you just check out these links:
Experience DADA for yourself...create an original poem
The AutomaMarcelDuChampishlikeWishingCardGreetingService
A Surrealist Manifesto: The Declaration of January 27, 1925
An introduction to Surrealism
Artists
Man Ray (as a photographer myself, I love his work!)
Yves Tanguy
Salvador Dali...the master himself
Rene Magritte...such passion, such images
When people walk into my apartment, they are greeted with an assortment of Dali, Magritte, Picasso and Warhol..of course, I get some strange looks, but I love to have these wonderful images surrounding me. They are thought provoking, intriguing and refreshing
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