Post on 11-May-2015
SURREALISM
SURREALISM, n. Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express—verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner—the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.
Andre Breton
Andre Breton
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
Man Ray
Georges Bataille
I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
Georges Bataille
Exquisite Corpse drawing
Arthur Rimbaud and the Comte de Lautreamont
Jean Arp
Jean Arp – Shirt Front and Fork
Jean Arp – Head with Three Annoying Objects
Max Ernst – Two Children Threatened by a Nightingale
Max Ernst – The Horde
Max Ernst – Europe After the Rain
Max Ernst Surrealism and Painting
Joan Miro
Joan Miro
For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.
Joan Miro
Joan Miro
Joan Miro
Joan Miro
Joan Miro
Joan Miro “Object”
Joan Miro “Poetess”
Andre Masson - Pasiphae
Yves Tanguy – Mama, Papa is Wounded
Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
Salvador Dali
I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali – Accomodations of Desire
Salvador Dali – Accomodations of Desire
Salvador Dali – Gala contemplating the sea….
Rene Magritte
Rene Magritte – The Human Condition
Rene Magritte – The Rape
Meret Oppenheim - Object
Claude Cahun
Claude Cahun
Claude Cahun
Pablo Picasso
Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti
AMERICAN ARTBEFORE WWII
THE EIGHT
The Ashcan School
Robert Henri
Robert Henri
Robert Henri
John Sloan
John Sloan
Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz
"Photography is not an art. Neither is painting, nor sculpture, literature or music. They are only different media for the individual to express his aesthetic feelings… You do not have to be a painter or a sculptor to be an artist. You may be a shoemaker. You may be creative as such. And, if so, you are a greater artist than the majority of the painters whose work is shown in the art galleries of today."
Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz
Gallery 291
Edward Steichen
Marsden Hartley
Charles Demuth
Eugene Speicher
Eugene Speicher
“It doesn’t matter what you do [in art school]. I’m going to become a great painter and you’re just going to end up teaching art in some girl’s school.”
Georgia O’Keeffe
“I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.”
Georgia O’Keeffe
Georgia O’Keeffe
Georgia O’Keeffe
Georgia O’Keeffe
Georgia O’Keeffe
HARLEMRENAISSANCE
The Armory Show
James Van Der Zee
James Van Der Zee
AMERICANREGIONALISM
Thomas HartBenton
Thomas HartBenton
Thomas HartBenton
Grant Wood
Grant Wood
Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper
Romare Bearden
Romare Bearden
Jacob Lawrence
Ben Shahn
Ben Shahn
Ben Shahn
Dorothea Lange
Weegee
Weegee
Diego Rivera
“July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida.”
Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo
“There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.”
Frida Kahlo