1)
3 surreal artists: Salvador Dali, Vincent van Gogh, max Ernst
2)
a) In Salvador Dali’s “the persistence of memory” there are
3 clocks kind of melting and being shaped by gravity on some kind of beach with
a hill in the background. This depicts a world of timelessness to me, like a
dream or a landscape of imagination. Maybe he is trying to express that time
comes and goes without warning hence the clocks melting.
b) In Vincent van Gogh’s “starry night over the Rhone” 2
people are walking by a body of water in a city, and there are a lot of stars
that are very big. I think this focuses a lot of attention on the stars because
they represent light to a dark world at night. To me this depicts that he
believes that the luminosity of the stars out does that of the city.
c) In Max “Ernst’s gypsy rose lee”, there is a reflecting
lake of the orange trees above it. There are also 2 women dressed as part of
the nature, which kind of makes it look like they live there. There is an
opening to the light behind them to suggest that this is a good place to be. I
think this depicts a good time in his life when things are going good.
3) The surrealist movement began in the early 1920s, around
the time of WW1.
4) It was a reaction to the “irrationality, and destruction”
of WW1
5) Most were from France
6) I think it is important because it changed the way that
we view art as a whole. Without it art would have evolved to be too real with
no real imagination or purpose. People would view art as easy and slowly it
would become a failure until brought back .
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