Surrealism

Contents The Myth of the Child Alchemy Its History, Revival, and Symbolism Initiation The Occultation of Surrealism Collage as Alchemy The Alchemical Androgyne Ernst and the Women in His Life As Above, So Below The Alchemical Landscapes Conclusion Notes An Alchemical Glossary Selected Bibliography Index... 

Choucha, Nadia. Surrealism and the occult shamanism, magic, alchemy, and the birth of an artistic movement. Rochester (NY) Destiny Books, 1992. 144p. ISBN 0-89281-373-3... 

Aberth, Susan Louise. Leonora Carrington surrealism, alchemy and art. Aldershot Lund Humphries, 2004. 160p. ISBN 0-85331-908-1... 

He was struggling, as was I, to come to terms with the elf-haunted psychic landscapes revealed by di-methyltryptamine, or DMT. Once we had encountered DMT, in the heady and surreal atmosphere of Berkeley at the apex of the Summer of Love, it had become the primary mystery, and the most effective tool for the continuance of the quest. 

Around us, the jungle ahead of us, the Secret. After Solo s departure, I buttoned up my stash, hefted my butterfly net, and felt like Van Veen, the priapic hero of Nabokov s surreal love story Ada. After all, how often does one have the satisfaction of overcoming a rival Especially a rival who claims to believe sincerely that he is Jesus Christ and Hitler ... 

In this regard, the remarks of Nicholas Royle on surrealism and the uncanny are particularly relevant to alchemy and modernity. He writes People can always think of [surreaHsm] as an artistic movement which has had its day, or suppose that (in Jean Baudrillard s words) surrealism can only survive as folklore . . . could we not suppose that surreaHsm remains a strange non-event that has no proper place, but stiU haunts. . . precisely everywhere and nowhere (97-98). 

She went to live with relatives in another state, and, indeed, her depression returned full force. Soon she landed in a state hospital after swallowing fifty-five assorted pills. In contrast to her first stay at a private hospital, Rachel discovered at the public hospital what people who don t have insurance go through when they re mentally ill. She also found doctors who weren t fooled quite as easily by her performances. This time she was put on liquid Prozac, and because nothing ever made me mad... they purposely put me in a room with someone who had anger problems. This jarring combination, she told me, generated almost surreal feelings. 

The most notorious example of post-Symbolist alchemical imagery in Erench artistic theory was that employed by Andre Breton (1896-1966), the Pope of Surrealism. Breton s many affinities with mainstream Symbolist art theory need not detain us here, with the exception of one familiar and ongoing leitmotif, le Rive. Besides being a recognized core idea in Symbolist poetics, the Dream was also much discussed by another spiritual step-child of Symbolismus, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), who published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. As seems conveniently overlooked, the Rives-Traume... 

Our main interest here remains the ongoing polemics of Alchemy in the post-Symbolist, Surrealist world. The hermetic metaphor did not become quite so blatant as it had been in Symbolist art criticism until the publication of Breton s A Letter to Seers (1925) and his Second Manifesto of Surrealism... 

Andre Breton Magus of Surrealism. New York Noonday, 1971. 

Breton, A. Manifestoes of Surrealism. Ann Arbor Univ. of Michigan Press, 1972. 

Andre Breton and the Basic Concepts of Surrealism. Tuscaloosa Univ. of Ala-... 

Gibson, ]. Surrealism Before Ereud Dynamic Psychiatry s Simple Recording Instrument . Art Journal 46 (1987) 56-60. 

Rubin, W. S. Dada, Surrealism, and Their Heritage. New York Museum of Modem Art, 1968. 

CLONING Arlene Judith Klotzko CONTEMPORARYART Julian Stallabrass THE CRUSADES Christopher Tyerman DADA AND SURREALISM David Flopkins... 

Cubism and Non Objective Art and Surrealism. 53 min. Aspen, CO Crystal Video, 1993. 

In this chapter, the last of the five elements, light and dark contrast, or value contrast, is examined in detail. Students will use value contrast, along with the other elements and principles of good composition, to create works of art that incorporate as subject matter molecular models depicting a variety of molecular geometric shapes. The artistic movements of fauvism, cubism, and surrealism will be explored and examined because their techniques are used to create modern art. 

Some artists, such as Henri Matisse, chose to use bold colors not natural to the subject, distortion, simplification, and visual texture to describe their ideas. Because of the shocking effect of the works of Matisse and the works of other expressive artists of the early twentieth century, the artists were given the name fauves, meaning wild beasts. Others, such as Pablo Picasso, chose to break down their subjects into simple geometric forms, calling their form of abstraction cubism. Still others, such as Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte, chose to draw upon dreams and fantasy to express their views in a style called surrealism. 

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