surrealism

Surrealism is about objects and the element of surprise twisted together, sporting juxtapositions and contrast. Surrealism is symbolic movements that started in the early 1920's in France at the time of world war 1. It is a style of painting inspired my the human subconscious, the believed that surrealism would advocate the idea that ordinary expressions are vital and important from the human subconscious mind. A famous artist who is an  at surrealism is Salvador Dali.


Salvador Dali was a Spanish painter, he was a sculptor and a designer, one of his most famous paintings is known as 'the persistence of memory', and many of his paintings are still famous, even till today. He was very into the human mind and very imaginative, he believed that art shouldn't be just pretty pictures, he believed that there should always be a meaning and be deep, full of life and brought perspective back. So he made his pictures based or including dreams and has a meaning in each of his paintings.


My painting is on surrealism, it has a blue sky with the sun on the right and the moon on the left, its in an orange dessert and a floating purple island. My sun and moon has hands holding them and they represent us, the human race, the floating island with a colorful graveyard represents death. My painting is showing that we almost control everything except for death. and that since my floating graveyard is colourful, it shows that death isn't really meant to be feared of. My painting has a desert for the background, which represnts global warming or in other words, us killing the enviroment.

So this is my painting on surrealism, so i hope you enjoyed it.

Conflict

Here are my 3 paintings, they are listed in order from the first to the last which is supposed to be most improved one. These painting represent conflict, although my first one showed no conflict at all, so I improved panel by panel. What we learned this time was abstraction, which is really hard to make since it must involve harmony and balance. If you put too much in the picture, then the whole picture is ruined. what I learned during this project is how to balance out objects and shapes so it looks even, and not too empty or too full in a a part of the picture, although I am satisfied with my finished result, I felt though I could have done better with placing the colors.

By doing this project, I learned how to balance the objects in my picture and my artwork to look more even, I also learned that the type of colors is important depending on what you want to show in the painting, such as conflict or calm. Jackson Pollock is very famous for his paintings as an abstract expressionist.

the picture below is one of his paintings, its named cathedral. He uses soloid texture in his paintings, but he takes an image or a feeling and makes in into an abstract wonder.

How has art changed through time

Eras go by and civilization grows into society, everything changes from music to clothes, but especially art. in the very begining, cave art was where it started. there was no canvas or paint but charcoal and dirt, they would etch stich figures into the walls of caves and animals they had killed, almost like keeping data through symbols. this lasted from 15,000 b.c. to 1000 b.c.

greacian urns, clay had become very popular once found and acropolis grecian urns sprouted in 400 B.C. On these pots and vases were images of warfare and mythilogical legends. stories were plastered on to the grecian urns, which became very popular around that time.

Early renaissance, many artist were famous around that time but probably the most famous was Leonardo Da Vinci. some of his most famous paintings were the last supper and Mona Lisa. Many people think that Mona Lisa is actually a self-portrait of Leonardo! X-rays of the painting and close comparison with drawings of Leonardo suggest that this may actually be true. this was around the time when canvas and perspective was around to getting used to.

And finally modern. less and less artists became famous for their artwork was becoming too much alike. Andy Warhol, who used optical art and pop art, such as the Marilyn Monroe painting.  Optical Art is a mathematically-themed form of Abstract art, which uses repetition of simple forms and colors to create vibrating effects, foreground-background confusion, an exaggerated sense of depth, and other visual effects. In a sense, all painting is based on tricks of visual perception: manipulating rules of perspective to give the illusion of three-dimensional space, mixing colors to create the impression of light and shadow, and so on. With Optical Art, the rules that the viewer's eye uses to try to make sense of a visual image are themselves the "subject" of the artwork.