Surrealism
Max Ernst, The Elephant Celebes (1921), Tate, London
The idea was first thought up in 1917 by an art critic and poet Guillqume Apollinaire and later this term was used in 1924 by Andre Breton to describe a radical political movement in aim to change the view of the world. Surrealism used the term 'automatic' as a technique to drawing images from the realm of the unconscious.
In the 1930s surrealism move away from the radical avant-gard art movement and move into a movement that hit a larger audience , inspiring and morfing the worlds of theatre, design,fashion and advertising. Embarrassing the commercial world while others saw that it went against there political principles of the movement.
This journey from art to commercial wasn't just a factor or of designers and artist taking aspects of imagery and techniques out of the movement, it also grew from with in the commercial world. While this was happening the true surrealist artists frequently worked as designers
Surrealism influenced and inspired the fashion,design,theatre,interiors,film, architecture and advertising worlds. surrealists uniquely interpreted the world, the innovative way they thought challenged the conventional perception of the world and transforming the visual langue of art and design
designers of this movement where enveloped into the new world of fashion,commercial design and graphics, and these designers dabbled with these medias throughout their careers .
During the 1920s surrealists focused on the practice of automatic design in writing,collage and painting, while in the 1930s they embraced a new practice -the surrealist object.
Moveing away from image and text and into a more constructive media, engaging with the material world and connecting with the modern life
Bone china cup and saucer, decorated with design attributed to Salvador Dali, by Royal Crown Derby, England, UK, 1938-9. Museum no. C.9:1&2-2006
By the leadership of Salvador Dali plenty of artists began to produce art in 3d forms using the surrealist object idea. They created objects and sculptures with use of pre-existing materials often outmoded commodities. These designers brought new meaning to subjective dreams and desires
Surrealism started a fad of having personalised designed interiors, homes were not just a security and a domestic zone, but it carried a disturbing and sexual meaning that preoccupied the surrealists, the interiors created this sense of interconnectivity by use of structures from cellar to attic symbolic of both psychic and physical scenarios.
The surrealist practice a range of subjective approaches, they inspired themselves fr from historical events , they investigated old objects to create new meaning, the combined the new,old and the bizarre to creat a multi weird creation.
Jeffry Harp is a tattooist as a profession and has been doing so since 1995, besides his tattooing media Jeffrey also creates 2d manipulated images.
the above pictures are just 2 of his main surrealism art, witch each image you have to see the world through the artist eyes seeing his view on the world. each image has a sense of chaos yet there is also a sense of harmony. Jeffrey tiltes this works Victorian surrealism
Surrealism & Design - Victoria and Albert Museum. 2015. Surrealism & Design - Victoria and Albert Museum. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/s/surrealism-and-design/. [Accessed 22 January 2015].
Surrealism Movement, Artists and Major Works | The Art Story. 2015.Surrealism Movement, Artists and Major Works | The Art Story. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.theartstory.org/movement-surrealism.htm. [Accessed 26 January 2015].
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