When I was learning about Cubism
yesterday, I read a mention of Surrealism, and decided today to check into this.
Surrealism was actually a literary movement that originated in Paris around the
early 1920s and became an international intellectual and political movement. (http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/surr/hd_surr.htm).
Surrealism drew on and contained deep symbolism and disdain for convention- and
used Freudian methods of free association. One well known painter who created
Surrealist works was Salvador Dalí. Dalí’s Accommodations
of Desire (pictured below) was one of his surrealist works, which Freudian
symbolism.
Honestly, I just can’t really
handle this style of painting. I think it might be time to redirect my review
of art. I had a difficult time today focusing on my morning coffee reading. As
the paintings I look at become more and more abstract, I become more and more
disinterested. I feel as though I need to refocus- perhaps go back in time and
look at works before Impressionism, where I started. Or, perhaps, look at a
different type of art altogether. (Sculptures? Photographs?). All I know is
that I was enjoying the art research at the beginning of this month, but now I
have definitely hit a wall of boredom. I need to refocus my research on
something that I enjoy more.
I think this is good, though. It
means I’m learning what I do like, and what I don’t. For the Coffee Bean Dreams
project, both types of knowledge are necessary. Tomorrow I need to think about
how to redirect this month’s focus.
In the meantime, since I just can’t
help myself, here is Dalí’s Accommodations
of Desire. I think this type of art is definitely an acquired taste. What
do you think?
Xoxo,
Diana
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