Surreal Art Reasearch

These are the 3 three surreal paintings by famous surreal artists that I found interesting:

Who: Max Ernst, Andre Breton, Pablo Picasso

1.Max Ernst: L’ange du Foyer (Fireside Angel) (1937)

This painting interested me a lot because it was really looked menacing and bizarre, and also represented the triumph of the surrealism against an ominous sky. Even though it was very clumsy, it still managed to help lead the movement further. I was confused about this picture at first, well it really wouldn’t make sense at first glance because of how bizarre it looks, but if you look further into it and research it, it starts to make a little bit more sense. The creature looks as though, it was menacing to people that were against the movement, looking down upon those who were trying to stop him. In the end,  he ended up crushing his opponents. 

2.Andre Breton: Tortured (1920)

This painting, at least what I thought, has some very strong symbolism in it and although bizarre, it proves a point. The man has thinking that is trapped within only the western world, and wasn’t allowed to think about other cultures, people would look down upon him if they did. He felt as though nuts and bolts were holding down on the ground of western soil, his mind trapped in a cage. He had to find a way to let his mind free and not be bolted to the same soil all the time. This was a man that they were torturing, not some machine that they can throw away at anytime. The man knows, he must free the mind to prevent from being trapped.

3.Pablo Picasso: The old guitarist (1903)

I really like this painting because it shows the hardships he went through during his Blue period. Influenced by the religious painting he grew up with, he conveys what it was like when he was growing older in Spain. This painting was part of the wider Symbolist movement of the period. Picasso then dismissed his Blue Period as “nothing but sentiment”: critics agreed on this but pictures still remained moving.

3. The movement occurred in the 1920’s, during the World War II

4. Why: To make it so that dream and reality aren’t contradicted

5. Most surreal artists, excluding Picasso, came from France.

6. In my opinion, Surreal art is important to our culture and imaginations because it helps people be more creative and come up with new ideas for not just art, but other ambitions as well.