Masked Portraits
Posted: November 24, 2014 Filed under: Art, Photography | Tags: American, dada, dadaism, face, identity, Man Ray, mask, modern art, mud, portrait, Surrealism Leave a commentFour portraits by Man Ray:
Exploring the Surreal
Posted: November 13, 2014 Filed under: Art, Film, Painting/Drawing, Sculpture | Tags: Andre breton, art history, Claude Cahun, dada, dadism, Doctor Who, Freud, Joan Miró, Max Ernst, Meret Oppenheim, Peter Capaldi, Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali, Surrealism, Tate, unconscious mind, Unlock art Leave a commentNeed some help getting to grips with Surrealism? The Doctor will see you now.
Peter Capaldi, a former art student, and the latest actor to play Doctor Who, settles down on Freud’s couch to deliver his wry take on the Surrealist movement.
‘Unlock Art’ is Tate’s new short film series, offering a witty inside track on the world of art. Doctor Who actor Peter Capaldi joins forces with rock duo The Kills, comedian Frank Skinner, Girls star Jemima Kirke and other celebrity art fans to introduce some of the big ideas that have shaped art history. A new film is released each month, with topics ranging from the history of the nude and the nature of the art market, to Pop art.
Thanks to Tate, Unlock Series
The Beautiful Season
Posted: August 13, 2014 Filed under: Art, Painting/Drawing | Tags: animals, dada, dadaism, German, Max Ernst, oil on canvas, Surrealism, The beautiful season Leave a commentFeathers
Posted: July 23, 2014 Filed under: Art, Painting/Drawing | Tags: 1921, 20s, collage, dada, dadaism, Feathers, francis picabia, French, landscape, Surrealism, trees Leave a commentMonsieur et Madame
Posted: July 6, 2014 Filed under: Art, Sculpture | Tags: 1969, 60's, Catalan, dada, dadaism, egg, Joan Miró, monsieur et madame, objects, sculpture, spanish, stool, Surrealism Leave a commentTorso
Posted: June 4, 2014 Filed under: Art, Sculpture | Tags: abstraction, dada, French, German, human figure, Jean Arp, marble, nude, Surrealism, torso, woman Leave a commentJuliet et Margaret
Posted: March 21, 2014 Filed under: Art | Tags: American, artist, breasts, dada, flower, Juliet, Juliet Browner, leaf, Man Ray, Margaret, Margaret Neiman, mask, modernist, nude, papier mache, Paris, Surrealism, surrealist, wife, woman Leave a commentJuliet Browner and Margaret Neiman wear papier mache masks designed and created by Man Ray
The Plain
Posted: September 30, 2013 Filed under: Art, Poetry, Writing | Tags: alone, chair, dada, dadaism, French, German, hat, horizon, Jean Arp, lithograph, moustache, plain Leave a commentA poem by Jean Arp
I was alone with a chair on a plain
Which lost itself in an empty horizon.
The plain was flawlessly paved.
Nothing, absolutely nothing but the chair and I
were there.
The sky was forever blue,
No sun gave life to it.
An inscrutable, insensible light
illuminated the infinite plain.
To me this eternal day seemed to be projected —
artificially– from a different sphere.
I was never sleepy nor hungry nor thirsty,
never hot nor cold.
Time was only an abstruse ghost
since nothing happened or changed.
In me Time still lived a little
This, mainly, thanks to the chair.
Because of my occupation with it
I did not completely
lose my sense of the past.
Now and then I’d hitch myself, as if I were a horse, to the chair
and trot around with it,
sometimes in circles,
and sometimes straight ahead.
I assume that I succeeded.
Whether I really succeeded I do not know
Since there was nothing in space
By which I could have checked my movements.
As I sat on the chair I pondered sadly, but not desperately,
Why the core of the world exuded such black light.