Surrealism

Surrealism


Salvador Dali,  The Accommodations of Desire,1929. (Foundation, 2017)

Surrealism can be described as a psychic automatism in it's pure state by which one chooses to express - verbally, by means of the written word or in any other manner they wish. It is the the actual functioning of thought (Foundation, 2017). In Surrealism, artists bypass reason and rationality by accessing their unconscious mind.  This artwork by Salvador Dali is key example of his ability to render this vivid and crazy dreams with seemingly journalistic accuracy. It has been known that Dali developed the 'paranoid-critical method', this is the method that involved systematic irrational thought and self-induced paranoia as a way to access his unconscious (Foundation, 2017). 



Marco Escobedo, Untitled, 2014. (Escobedo, 2007).

Marco Escobedo is a contemporary surrealist, he channels the surreal and subconscious mind. He used high contrasts and richly saturated colors to create scenes and characters that look like they could be from another planet (Escobedo, 2007). This artwork is serious and dark but there are also hints of playfulness and humor, much like the vintage surrealists he is bypassing reason and rationality to create something that takes longer than a minute to understand once looked at. 

Sources consulted


Escobedo, M., 2007. Untitled. [Art] (We Urbanists).

 Foundation, T. A. S., 2017. Surrealism. [Online]
Available at: http://www.theartstory.org/movement-dada-artworks.htm
[Accessed 04 September 2017]

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