/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Dorothea Tanning

Max Ernst

my favorite piece by him is actually "Europe After the Rain II", but it's impossible to find a decent reproduction of it online.

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>>2203211

Beksinski goes into surrealist artists? I just love his works..

>>2203251

OP here, I too am a fan of Beksinski's work

How exactly does one into surrealism?
I really enjoy the pieces that Beksinski has made, more so his creepy/foreboding style.
But just, how?

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>>2203713
Have you got no creativity at all?

>>2203713
I find that it has to do with "bending reality" to illustrate or symbolize something, which sounds kind of plain at first, but can be difficult to conceptualize creatively.
For example, in the classic The Persistence of Memory, watches don't ordinarily melt, especially at a temperature where a tree could hold them up. Obviously this correlates to how memory persists, and how it might be more malleable than we think. This is kind of a basic example compared to others, but it was influential on many other works.
A simple example would be gravity, which is a (literally) universal constant. If you portrayed a room with all of its furniture upside-down on the ceiling, I (along with others) would consider it a work with surrealist traits, albeit uncreative and cliched. Alternatively, it would probably make an interesting work to illustrate a defiance of the mass-energy conservationism.
Modern surrealists have are finding new ways to create alternative realities, such as Beksinski's famous habit of combining themes of death and apocalypse with contradicting hints of society (such as cars or combat helmets). While these are specific examples, the successful works do tend to have many layers of alteration (such as the aforementioned Dali work's creature, box, or lack of a horizon).
Hope this helps! It's worth noting that Beksinski did dismiss concrete analyses of his work, though, as the essence of art is often that it isn't completely definable.

>>2203735

Couldn't have said it better myself.

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Leonora Carrington

Remedios Varo - Star Catcher

is this surrealist

>>2204308
I too am a fan of Varos

Is surrealism the modern DA tier?

>>2204965

It has the right elements to be.

>>2204996
wut

>>2204996
no ya ding-dong

>>2204996
if done poorly, yes, but that can be said of any style of art.

>>2204996
I wouldn't say so. A lot of surrealism is worth at least some merit.

Pop Surrealism might be DA tier, it's just the same shit over and over. Porcelain dolls,Alice in Wonderland and pop culture/consumerism.
It looks very formulated and kitsch.

In the internet age with websites, video games, etc. surrealism is realism.

I think surrealism might become relevant again, or something that looks like surrealism without the same label.

anyone have the pic by a guy with a really dutch sounding name? The painting was something just like columns, or part of a marble statue, the thing I remember about it is that the sky was incredibly vivid. It gave you a sense of being in a very large world.

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Carel Willink

Surrealism is modern art crap.

I only really like manga illustrations.

>>2205798
>here's your reply

>>2205779
sounds like de Chirico

>>2205798
You're not really cool for not liking manga illustrations.

Anybody got some surrealists that deal with drawing the figure?

>>2208883
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