Salvador Dali, Dadaism and Surrealism

Salvador Dali, papaism and SurrealismIntelligence without ambition is a bird without wings The human mind is a very dogmatic device and organ. However it is not perfect in the way it processes things. Illusions for instance are optic stimuli that swindle the brain because the brain cannot process all visual tomography accurately. Why do we see puddles form up on the road whilst driving on a hot day? Why do certain parts of a drawing look bigger while in actually fact they are smaller? There have been legion(predicate) artists that have used illusions in their works, Scott Kim, M.C Escher, simply what really brought fame to the surrealists in the 1990s? The Spanish painter Salvador Dali.A small amount has had such an impact on society as the eccentric painter whose paintings obsessed audiences for many years. Dali was immensely popular in the art community for his originality in work, and several of his paintings now foot as icons for his era. Dali was admired by the public be cause he embraced innovative ideas of the time, many of which were integrated into his works as well as his life. He continued to fulfil new ideas as times changed, which allowed him to keep his popularity within the public and art enthusiasts, possibly making him matchless of the most distinguished artists of the 1990s.Salvador Dali (Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali i Domenech) born in May 1904, in a minute town of figueres, in a region known as Catalonia. His parents gave him a lot of support as a young child, his first studio built for him at a very young age. Dali knowing that his parents recognised his potential from very aboriginal on gave him effective support, until he reached the San Fernando Academy of fine arts in Madrid. All of Dalis life he was distressed by many issues and complications, such as the death of his married woman gala and the war, resulting in him being put in a state of paranoia. Nevertheless, he related to these problems, and his paintings gave him an op ening in such ways that allowed him to express his feelings to a great extent, this also gave the public a viewing insight into his work, by examining his paintings we could also relate to them and see for ourselves how his paranoia overwhelmed him.Paranoiac-CriticalIn relation to this Dalis paranoia, a psychological manner known as paranoiac-critical was created. The Paranoiac-Critical Method was developed by Dali as a way for him to dig out his internal emotions. It was an approach for artists to work throughout their obsessions by ultimately selecting and organizing meticulous objects on the canvas. Dali explained his paranoiac critical as a Spontaneous method of irrational knowledge based on critical and imperiousobjectivities of delirious associations and interpretations.When combining a method into a peck of work, usually a functional process of the brain is used to visualise imagery in the work, to combine these into the finished creation. Dali often used double imagery an d multiple imagery, which then resulted into unclear images allowing them to be interpreted in different ways. Two close examples of Dalis paranoiac- critical method and double imagery is the The invisible humanity and Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust ofVoltaire, for both of these paintings he has cleary used double imagery to trick the eye into thought there is only one solid image but infact multiple images are present.Disappearing Bust of Voltaire the Invisible ManI see the paranoiac- critical method as being effortless, in my opinion Dali is fooling himself into going insane, while remembering the cause for madness is actually to create a work of art. Dali chose the difficult way by truly going crazy, rather than motivating madness through chemical means. As one of his quotes say, I dont take drugs. I am drugs,Andre Breton poems of AndreSurrealism was an artistic and literary faction that began in 1922 led by the French poet/ critic Andre Breton. Breton was the origina tor and primary theorizer of Surrealism, and artist association Committed to examining the unfounded, paranormal and intuitive aspects of the human mind. Surrealism sought to reinstate conventional moral and ethical concepts with beliefs of anger, hatred, etc, expressing emotions exaggeratedly that Breton described as extol the values of poetry, love, and liberty. The surrealists attempted to bypass conscious determination and allow their unconscious(p) take over their works. To explore the subconscious mind, to go beyond the typical thinking person.Dadaism and SurrealismDada was a movement approximately around the same time as the first world. Dadaism was like a dispute against war, but not war but art. It was an anti- art. Dadaism felt as though the public no longer deserved the privilege of beautiful art that they had pay back so adapted to because of how the war came upon them, the feeling that people lost their well being and value. So Dadaism intentions were to make art un sightly, ugly. Surrealism emerged from what was still left of Dada (a European society characterized through its so called absurdity and lack of traditional standards, sometimes referred to as (nihilistic) a life without objectives or values. During the early years of the middle 1920s and not like Dada, Surrealism alleged a capable and more positive outlook of art and from the outcome of this it went on to win several converts. Surrealism got its early era as a literary, not artistic, movement in French publications. One thing that Surrealism and Dadaism had in common was their faith in the taking into custody of the unconscious mind and also its manifestations, together they understood that throughout the unconscious mind an overabundance of artistic imagery would be unveiled. Together both called automatism.A good example of Dadaism is Marcel Duchamps three dimensional piece The leakage its not what you would describe as a great piece of art. The Fountain is what Duchamp would call a readymade. This piece is essentially a urinal with the word MUTT printed on it. I think this shows an ideal example of Dada for three reasons to start with it is in no way like art before, secondly the resources used are not what you would describe as standard art materials and thirdly this piece makes no sense what so ever. There is an obvious variation between this and Salvador Dalis Persistance Of Memory, in what i would describe as Duchamp slapping this piece together , on the former(a) hand Dali has carefully painted in vast detail his thoughts, his mental image. This painting by Dali is what he would portray as hand- painted dream photographs - reuniting the unconscious mind with realism, reality.