Aysia Brown
November 11, 2015
HUA
Surrealism
began in Paris at 1924 as a art and literary movement. Surrealism was committed
to express imagination, dreams, and the subconscious of a human mind.
Surrealism carried on the style of Dada. Dada is art that shows no sense of
anything. Meaning random objects can be put together and can be call art.
Likewise, surrealism also express objects that’s not real, and it’s like you’re
looking inside the person’s brain. For example: This is an oil painting named “The
Horde” by Max Ernest. It was painting in
1927. It’s 44 7/8 X 57 ½ (114 X 146.1 cm) The reason he painted this artwork is
because, Ernest had a violent experience in World War 1. He was influenced by
the battle and made the artwork. As you can see, most of the figures are not
shaped like humans or maybe animals, but more like monsters. The use of colors makes the picture pop. The blue
as the background makes the red, gold, and brown pop, because the colors are opposite
to each other. The artist expresses a sense of movement and excitement. You can
feel the objects moving in slow motion, because of the way the figure on the
right is standing. The figure on the right is standing like a person, and his
body is like it’s made out of bark. The figure has his hands in the air, and
his right foot is close to the end of the canvas. At the bottom, it’s like
sand, and at the bottom right of the canvas, it looks like the big figure is
standing near a cliff. The more I keep studying the picture, I can sense that
the big figure with a tree-like body is being victimized or attacked by these
red and gold objects. The objects all the way to the left, is chaotic. If would
ask me what do you see in that picture, not the tree guy, but the others on the
left. I would say, I see a horse on its hind legs at the top left, a hand at
the right, I see a orange body that is laying on its side at the middle of the
painting, and at the bottom right, I see an under-cooked whole chicken that
looks like he is going to fall off. It is very interesting how this artist used
shapes that is absurd, and vivid colors to show what he had witness in real
life, but use his imagination or maybe his dream to show others in a surreal or
dream-like way.
Cubism art
began in 1907 in Paris. This art style broke away from the traditions of
painting that lasted for a hundred years. The way cubism breaks off from the
tradition is by not painting a linear perspective, and depth. This is a
painting by Pablo Picasso named “The Old Guitarist. It was made from 1903-1904.
The picture is 48 3/8 X 32 ½ in. (122.9 x 82.6 cm). Picasso painted a picture
that is unforgettable, and the of only one color, which is blue. Using one
color for an artwork is called monochromatic. The guitarist has a mournful face
expression, and the way he is sitting is depressing. Picasso present the old
guitarist as a time where people are at their sad moments and the colors of the
man and background is gloomy blue. This artwork is a reflection to Picasso,
because during his younger years, when he was twenty-one he didn’t have any
money and was almost about to be impoverished. Picasso represented the
outcasts, ill, penniless during the earliest 20th century.
