Surrealism And Pop Art Analysis

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls”. (Pablo Picasso). Art is a universal language that evokes passion, great emotion and inspiration. Throughout the centuries art has serenaded the world with its undying love to voice and express a particular point. Out of the many years’ art has existed, I find most interest in the early to mid-20th century and 21st century periods of art. In the mid-20th century, one might come across the movements Surrealism and Pop art. Both of these movements had great influence on how people perceived art at that time. Moreover, around the 21st century art movements such as Environmental Art and New Media Art graced the world with news ways to look at art. Many individuals contributed

A lot of her work portrays her personality and how she sees herself. She uses her these unrealistic paintings to express herself. Carrington is famous for painting self-portraits. For example, in her painting titled “Carrington’s Self-portrait”. It was painted in 1934 and it contains vast amounts of symbolism. In this portrait one can see her sitting in a chair with her hand extended to a female Hyena. She relates to the rebellious spirit of the hyena and their ambiguous gender role. Also, in the background a horse can be seen running outside. This represents her own sense of freedom to express her work. In this portrait she also plays with her sexual position by her androgynous clothing. Her hair is frizzy and wild; relating herself to the untamed

René François Ghislain Magritte was born on the 21st of November 1898 Lessines, Belgium, and died the15th of August 1967 (aged 68) Brussels, Belgium. Rene is a very well know Belgium Surrealist painter. One of his most famous paintings is title “Son of Man”. In this painting a man is seen standing with an apple covering his face. The meaning behind this is that anything that is visible has something hiding behind. This stirs up a conflict of wanting to see what is unseen compared to what is already seen. Moreover, Magritte creates another painting that challenges a person’s perception. In his piece titled “The Treachery of Images” Magritte paints a pipe and writes in French on the painting “This is not a pipe”. He wanted to challenge the perception of this piece by saying that it wasn’t a pipe; which to a certain extent is true, because it is a picture of a pipe. Often depicting ordinary objects in an unusual context, Magritte’s work is known for challenging observers ' preconditioned perceptions of