Was looking through deviantart and noticed strong common factors among the most popular of today’s art. Common factors are: woman, man, beast, loneliness, and surrealism.
This made me wonder – is all of today’s art surrealism?
Even those works of art that are abstract, realistic, or primativist have strong elements of surrealism.
mollwollfumble said:
Was looking through deviantart and noticed strong common factors among the most popular of today’s art. Common factors are: woman, man, beast, loneliness, and surrealism.This made me wonder – is all of today’s art surrealism?
Even those works of art that are abstract, realistic, or primativist have strong elements of surrealism.
A few of the things that I have thought of in regard to surrealism and the postmodern…through the internet lots of imagery can be accessed and used as pieces in composition.As opposed to taking something from a small book the internet coughs up lots of diverse images, covering vast times and far places, and artists are responding to this.These appropriations may have been made for various reasons, but I noted it a lot in identity art…the who am I?/where did I come from? stuff Take a few unrelated things, cement them together and you are a long way down the surrealist path.
Originally surrealism responded to war and disease and loss and displacement. Some of the these themes are being reworked because of the times imo.
sarahs mum said:
mollwollfumble said:
Was looking through deviantart and noticed strong common factors among the most popular of today’s art. Common factors are: woman, man, beast, loneliness, and surrealism.This made me wonder – is all of today’s art surrealism?
Even those works of art that are abstract, realistic, or primativist have strong elements of surrealism.
A few of the things that I have thought of in regard to surrealism and the postmodern…through the internet lots of imagery can be accessed and used as pieces in composition.As opposed to taking something from a small book the internet coughs up lots of diverse images, covering vast times and far places, and artists are responding to this.These appropriations may have been made for various reasons, but I noted it a lot in identity art…the who am I?/where did I come from? stuff Take a few unrelated things, cement them together and you are a long way down the surrealist path.
Originally surrealism responded to war and disease and loss and displacement. Some of the these themes are being reworked because of the times imo.
War is Surrealism in some ways, things that don’t make sense, destruction, abstract power, sexual torture, senseless murder, contrast of peace with explosions, fleeing the oncoming horror.
Lots of artists look at war from many angles and different views. Picasso’s Gurnica depicting violence and chaos, many have stories that go with the paintings.
google surrealists paintings war
makes me wonder how art would be effected if war suddenly stopped and stayed that way
whether art would then take another direction
CrazyNeutrino said:
sarahs mum said:
mollwollfumble said:
Was looking through deviantart and noticed strong common factors among the most popular of today’s art. Common factors are: woman, man, beast, loneliness, and surrealism.This made me wonder – is all of today’s art surrealism?
Even those works of art that are abstract, realistic, or primativist have strong elements of surrealism.
A few of the things that I have thought of in regard to surrealism and the postmodern…through the internet lots of imagery can be accessed and used as pieces in composition.As opposed to taking something from a small book the internet coughs up lots of diverse images, covering vast times and far places, and artists are responding to this.These appropriations may have been made for various reasons, but I noted it a lot in identity art…the who am I?/where did I come from? stuff Take a few unrelated things, cement them together and you are a long way down the surrealist path.
Originally surrealism responded to war and disease and loss and displacement. Some of the these themes are being reworked because of the times imo.
War is Surrealism in some ways, things that don’t make sense, destruction, abstract power, sexual torture, senseless murder, contrast of peace with explosions, fleeing the oncoming horror.
Lots of artists look at war from many angles and different views. Picasso’s Gurnica depicting violence and chaos, many have stories that go with the paintings.
google surrealists paintings war
makes me wonder how art would be effected if war suddenly stopped and stayed that way
whether art would then take another direction
Artists and most other people would be much less jittery, things would slow down a bit more, people might feel time again, maybe spend more time on paintings.
mollwollfumble said:
Was looking through deviantart and noticed strong common factors among the most popular of today’s art. Common factors are: woman, man, beast, loneliness, and surrealism.This made me wonder – is all of today’s art surrealism?
Even those works of art that are abstract, realistic, or primativist have strong elements of surrealism.
perhaps woman man beast reflects a sexual thing or sexual food thing?
loneliness might be a reflection of people living in isolated little boxes in cities?
surrealism = reflection of war, chaos spreading over an ordered land?
sarahs mum said:
mollwollfumble said:
Was looking through deviantart and noticed strong common factors among the most popular of today’s art. Common factors are: woman, man, beast, loneliness, and surrealism.This made me wonder – is all of today’s art surrealism?
Even those works of art that are abstract, realistic, or primativist have strong elements of surrealism.
A few of the things that I have thought of in regard to surrealism and the postmodern…through the internet lots of imagery can be accessed and used as pieces in composition.As opposed to taking something from a small book the internet coughs up lots of diverse images, covering vast times and far places, and artists are responding to this.These appropriations may have been made for various reasons, but I noted it a lot in identity art…the who am I?/where did I come from? stuff Take a few unrelated things, cement them together and you are a long way down the surrealist path.
Originally surrealism responded to war and disease and loss and displacement. Some of the these themes are being reworked because of the times imo.
Yes I agree. A lot of today’s art reflects stress of one kind or another.
Here is last year’s winner of the Wynne prize (Bieniek’s “Biophilia”)
There’s nothing remotely surreal about it.
And so we can conclude that the answer to mollwollfumble’s question is no.
dv said:
Here is last year’s winner of the Wynne prize (Bieniek’s “Biophilia”)
There’s nothing remotely surreal about it.
And so we can conclude that the answer to mollwollfumble’s question is no.
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> Common factors are: woman, man, beast, loneliness, and surrealism.
And strong emotion. Art currently is full of emotion: love, longing, horror.
dv said:
Here is last year’s winner of the Wynne prize (Bieniek’s “Biophilia”)
There’s nothing remotely surreal about it.
And so we can conclude that the answer to mollwollfumble’s question is no.
But it does starkly highlight the other common element of today’s art – loneliness.
It’s a very old fashioned style that became so popular in the 19th century that it became a cliche – a pleasant valley between high vegetation on both sides
Similar other works:
Academic art isn’t keen on surrealism. It is seen as taking the easy way out not that I fully grok this.
DV’s Wynne prize winner looks like an academic pick.
sarahs mum said:
Academic art isn’t keen on surrealism. It is seen as taking the easy way out not that I fully grok this.DV’s Wynne prize winner looks like an academic pick.
Yes, looks very ordinary to me.
presumably the winner is a recognised name in his field.
Though you probably see it as more similar to this photograph.
The Rev Dodgson said:
sarahs mum said:
Academic art isn’t keen on surrealism. It is seen as taking the easy way out not that I fully grok this.DV’s Wynne prize winner looks like an academic pick.
Yes, looks very ordinary to me.
presumably the winner is a recognised name in his field.
Hmm, OK it’s a miniature oil painting, not a photograph.
So it is technically remarkable I suppose.
The Rev Dodgson said:
sarahs mum said:
Academic art isn’t keen on surrealism. It is seen as taking the easy way out not that I fully grok this.DV’s Wynne prize winner looks like an academic pick.
Yes, looks very ordinary to me.
presumably the winner is a recognised name in his field.
It’s hook is in the title probably..
The Rev Dodgson said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
sarahs mum said:
Academic art isn’t keen on surrealism. It is seen as taking the easy way out not that I fully grok this.DV’s Wynne prize winner looks like an academic pick.
Yes, looks very ordinary to me.
presumably the winner is a recognised name in his field.
Hmm, OK it’s a miniature oil painting, not a photograph.
So it is technically remarkable I suppose.
now..super realism is something liked at the moment..
sarahs mum said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
sarahs mum said:
Academic art isn’t keen on surrealism. It is seen as taking the easy way out not that I fully grok this.DV’s Wynne prize winner looks like an academic pick.
Yes, looks very ordinary to me.
presumably the winner is a recognised name in his field.
It’s hook is in the title probably..
Perhaps I should give up trying to improve my technique and concentrate on my titling skills :)
(And apologies for the accidental sexism in assuming the winner was a “he”)