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This is surrealism

frank July 22, 2019 at 13:13 4825 views 11 comments
"Neo-proletariat politics based on the ever inflating ethics of anarcho-organized government, a system of circular dissentation to promote the growth of rice mutations within the arctic circle. A question of well-planned drainage from Gleneagles golf course to South Chile only to enter the hole of the poles with Stratoproads from recent outerspacial recent artifacts.

"That the general public are now adequately informed on the simple but arduous projection of the Artist from the humid warmth of genealogical gestation to the dizzy freezing point of oil paint on canvas in well established Morphology going from one vicissitude to numberless combinations of zoological color gnodes to ambivalent orquestration of strangely timed psyclograms deftly intershot with sparrowhawks pressed into the tablets of concentrated malice only to explode here and there with the soundless perversity of zero sirns in an incalculable gesture of suspended astonishment."

This is an artist's statement from one of Leonora Carrington's exhibitions. It's a soft and kindly "fuck you with all your machinations."

Stop making so much sense.

Comments (11)

Shawn July 22, 2019 at 13:15 #308916
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T Clark July 22, 2019 at 15:31 #309001
Quoting frank
This is an artist's statement from one of Leonora Carrington's exhibitions. It's a soft and kindly "fuck you with all your machinations."


And the point is.....?
frank July 22, 2019 at 19:26 #309044
Reply to T Clark

I've become obsessed with this painting by Carrington. It's called And then we saw the daughter of the Minotaur.

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Carrington painted without any interest in communicating with her audience. She just painted the images that came to her. She didn't expect to become a famous artist because gender bias in the art world so strong in her lifetime, so her art was first and foremost personal to her.

Surrealist philosophy is along the lines of this:.

Wikipedia:Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision, created strange creatures from everyday objects, and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself.[1] Its aim was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute reality, a super-reality".[2][3][4]

Works of surrealism feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur; however, many surrealist artists and writers regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost, with the works being an artifact. Leader André Breton was explicit in his assertion that Surrealism was, above all, a revolutionary movement.

Surrealism developed out of the Dada activities during World War I and the most important center of the movement was Paris. From the 1920s onward, the movement spread around the globe, eventually affecting the visual arts, literature, film, and music of many countries and languages, as well as political thought and practice, philosophy, and social theory.
T Clark July 22, 2019 at 20:07 #309053
Reply to frank It strikes me that any artistic endeavor where the meaning comes first and the work follows along later is likely to be unsatisfying. I like surrealism. It's fun to look at and interesting to try to understand the culture it grew up in and the philosophy behind it. But I've never been moved by any surrealistic art.
frank July 22, 2019 at 20:20 #309055
Reply to T Clark I'm just the opposite. Surrealist philosophy is only slightly interesting to me. I don't think there is any pressing need to bridge the conscious and subconscious realms.

But I find surrealist art to be somehow familiar. Like a truer home. Maybe I'm already bridged. :smile:
ssu July 22, 2019 at 21:26 #309063
Surrealist paintings themselves are nice.

Yet I find the surrealist painters to be annoying charlatans that try desperately to be more than they are.

Quoting frank
Carrington painted without any interest in communicating with her audience.She just painted the images that came to her. She didn't expect to become a famous artist because gender bias in the art world so strong in her lifetime, so her art was first and foremost personal to her.
Yet she was a hang around member of the Bloomsbury group. (Lucky to you that she had friends that came famous like her.)
frank July 22, 2019 at 21:34 #309065
Reply to ssu That was Dora, not Leonora.
ssu July 22, 2019 at 21:42 #309067
:yikes: My bad.
T Clark July 22, 2019 at 21:50 #309068
Quoting frank
That was Dora, not Leonora.


I looked them both up. Leonora was much cooler.
frank July 22, 2019 at 22:16 #309069
Reply to T Clark :up: :up: :up:
god must be atheist July 24, 2019 at 02:22 #309435
Reply to Wallows I understood probably only the first half of the first paragraph of the OP. The rest spake eloquent Greek to me.

This post by me did not rely on prior research of the works of Kant, Popperl, or Buckler Jones.