liberating the creative power of the unconscious mind.

Surrealism (1920-1930s)

Surrealism means "above realism"

• The Surrealist artists sought to channel the unconscious as a means to unlock the power of the imagination.(Breton, 2016).

• Surrealism began as a philosophical movement that said the way to find truth in the world was through the subconscious mind and dreams, rather than through logical thought (History: Surrealism art for kids, no date).

• All sorts of techniques and phenomena were employed to achieve this subconscious creativity, including dreams, hallucinations, automatic or random image generation (visual-arts-cork, no date).

Characteristics

• The exploration of the dream and unconsciousness as a valid form of reality.
• A willingness to depict images of perverse sexuality, scatology, decay and violence.
• The desire to push against the boundaries of socially acceptable behaviors and traditions.
• The incorporation of chance and spontaneity.
• The influence of revolutionary 19th century poets, such as Charles Baudelaire.
•  Emphasis on the mysterious, marvelous, mythological and irrational in an effort to make art strange.
• Surrealism gave artists permission to express their most basic drives: hunger, sexuality, anger, fear,
• dread and ecstasy, and so forth.
• Exposing these uncensored feelings as if in a dream still exists in many form of art to this day (Gersh-Nesic, 2016)

A pure psychic automatism

The Artist: 

Rene Magritte 1898-1967

• To support himself he spent many years working as a commercial artist, producing advertising and book designs.
• Magritte preferred the quiet anonymity of a middle-class existence, a life symbolized by the bowler-hatted men that often populate his pictures.
• The illustrative quality of Magritte's pictures often results in a powerful paradox: images that are beautiful in their clarity and simplicity, but which also provoke unsettling thoughts.
• The men in bowler hats that often appear in Magritte'spictures can be interpreted as self-portraits.(Foundation, 2016).

The Artist's work

Who am I?

I often travel deep into my interior, a place where many of my dreams and images originate, with that said, in simple terms, my name is jay, Short for Jason, personalized as JAYSEAN, Jay is a simple whimsical creature with creepy eyes,differently wired! a lover of Art, Film, Music and all things awesome.

Jay spends most of his time chasing paper planes, finding beauty in dark places, Jay is a curious child, Jay Loves Cats, maybe that’s the reason for his curiosity?

If so… Jay might die, but jay doesn’t care because Jay is Happy.

Philosophies

Everyone has a cloud at which they float through life on, that cloud is made up of their own ideologies and beliefs, these are mine:

•  Stay Happy and Smile, Because I have beautiful teeth.

•  Always Make them remember your name.

•  Life will throw curve balls, you don’t have swing for them all, make

room for mistakes.

•  When life gives you lemons, make an apple pie.

My biggest traits would be curiosity and Challenge; I always ask how

things are done, I dig deep into the core of things rather than wondering

     around the surface, I’m a child that asks

     “What if”.

Purpose

We all have reasons to wake up in the morning and mine happens to be:

•  The Voice of the voiceless.

•  I live for those who color outside the lines.

Why do I consider myself a surrealist?

I Consider Myself a surrealist because I don’t believe in real life,

the only thing that’s real to me it’s what goes on in my head,

I don’t look at life in a conversional way,

my dreams are the source of my reality.

My Personal and Design Manifesto

BIBLOGRAPHY

Breton, A. (2016) Surrealism movement, artists and Major Works. Available at:

 http://www.theartstory.org/movement-surrealism.htm (Accessed: 27 August 2016).

Gersh-Nesic, B. (2016) What is surrealism? Early 1920s to the present. Available at:

http://arthistory.about.com/od/modernarthistory/a/Surrealism-Art-History-101-Basics.htm (Accessed: 27 August 2016).

History: Surrealism art for kids (no date) Available at:

http://www.ducksters.com/history/art/surrealism.php (Accessed: 27 August 2016).

Foundation, T.A.S. (2016) Rene Magritte biography, art, and analysis of works. Available at:

http://www.theartstory.org/artist-magritte-rene-artworks.htm (Accessed: 27 August 2016).

visual-arts-cork (no date) Surrealism Art Movement. Available at:

http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art/surrealism.htm (Accessed: 27 August 2016).