- Quote: “Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.” Man Ray
- Proposal: Michal Gondry, Mystery Guitar Man
- Man Ray: was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. He is best described a modernist (Modernism was a revolt against the conservative values of realism) who contributed majorly to the Dada and surrealist movement. He also experimented with photograms, which he called ‘Rayographs.’ However, he is best known for his heavily stylised and impassive portraits.
- Photo – Tears: real tears = incontrovertible sign of grief, then glass tears a sign of insincerity. It was shot like it was because in the 1920’s Man Ray was attentive to signs and fragments: lips, eyes and profiles.
- This first photo was taken in the early 80’s of a relative who was in Paris at the time; I wanted to use an old photo to help relate the portrait to Man Ray’s photographs. This was meant to capture an element of Man Rays flare and was styled similar to how he worked.
- Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members.
Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected associations and non sequitur; however, many Surrealist artists and writers regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost, with the works being an artifact. Leader André Breton was explicit in his assertion that Surrealism was above all a revolutionary movement.
Surrealism developed out of the Dada activities during World War I and the most important center of the movement was Paris. From the 1920s onward, the movement spread around the globe, eventually affecting the visual arts, literature, film and music of many countries and languages, as well as political thought and practice, philosophy and social theory.
- Salvador Dali was a surrealist painter best known for his striking and bizarre images in his work. He worked alongside Man Ray in the surrealist movement and is best known work is ‘The Persistence of Memory.’ His imagination allowed him to create different worlds within his paintings which is comparable to Anthony Green. He is an English contemporary realist painter and printmaker best known for his paintings of his own middle-class domestic life. His works sometimes use compound perspectives and polygonal forms—particularly with large, irregularly shaped canvasses.
- Introduce swirled photo.
- Another main inspiration Magritte, another surrealist painter well known for his witty and thought provoking paintings: “Everything we see hides another thing; we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.” Main philosophy for stop motion
- Modern day Magritte is comparable to Banksy (look right photo)
- Quote again “there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information”
- Conclusion.
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