Series : Family, Hope & Dream

Reference Artist : Salvador Dali

Art Movement : Surrealism

Introduction

Family, hope and dreams are extremely important. The world seems like a pool full of opportunities where fairy tales come true, anything and everything is possible.

Problem Statement

Choosing this Art Movement was easy but I had a tough time to apply my imaginations into my sketch. 

Purpose of Content

To express my imagination and depict dream state.

Research Question

How far can we reveal the subconscious truth?

Lonely
The girl in the picture is lonely. She lost a yellow balloon which actually represent that she lost someone important in her life.

Parents Hope

When the infant is in the womb, the mother is having a hope that the baby will be successful in the future.

Nesting

Parents nowadays work so hard that they forget their children's needs. In this picture, we can see that animals are more loving and caring than humans.

Possibilities
Anything is possible in this world as we have to go through hard times to achieve something.

Pain
The picture shows a woman who is going through obesity and there is a question mark of the pain that she have to go through.

Endless Love

The male is on a ladder trying to reach his girlfriend who is high up in the sky (on a swing). This shows that he is willing to do anything for her.

Surrealism

Time to choose an Art Movement... I was going through the list of art movement in Wikipedia and there I came across Surrealism.. The images that was displayed under this interesting art movement blew my mind away.... 

Surrealism was an artistic and literary movement, dedicated to expressing the imagination as revealed in dreams, free of the conscious control of reason and convention. Surrealism inherited as an anti-rationalist sensibility from Dada movement, and was shaped by emerging theories on our perception of reality, especially Sigmund Freud's model of the subconscious. Surrealism is a cultural movement and artistic style that was founded in 1924 by Andre’ Breton. The aim of Surrealism was to reveal the unconscious mind and reconcile it with rational life. Surrealism also aimed at social and political revolution and for a time was affiliated to the Communist party. There was no single style of Surrealist art but two broad types can be seen. Surrealism has had a huge influence on new generation by its art, literature and the cinema as well as on social attitudes and behavior. These are the early dream-like work of Salvador Dali, and Rene Magritte, and the later free form or automatisic work by artist such as Max Ernst and Joan Miro. 

Reference Artist

Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali I Domenech

Salvador Dalí photographed by Carl Van Vechten on November 29, 1939

Salvador Dali was born as the son of a prestigious notary in the small town of Figueras in Northern Spain. His talent as an artist showed at an early age and Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali received his first drawing lessons when he was ten years old. 

Salvador Dali 
Moment of Explosion

Elements of design

Line: Straight and curved,  symbolizes the often vague boundaries of matter and perception.

Tone: Mysterious, represents surreal situations that we might face in real life

Color: Monochromatic, therefore often interpreted as a dreamscape

Texture: Smooth and streamlined

Movement: Fluid but almost slow

Balance: Despite being so surreal, it has a traditional sense of balance

Symmetry: It is not completely symmetrical.

René Magritte (1898-1967)

The son of man (1964)

Birth of the new man
Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali

Max Ernst (1891-1967)

The Fireside Angel (1937)

Conceptual Art? Perceptual Art?

Conceptual Art??


Art that is intended to convey an idea or concept to the audience and need not involve the creation or appreciation of a traditional art object such as a painting or sculpture. There are few artistic movements which are surrounded by so much debate and controversy as conceptual art. Conceptual art has a tendency to provoke intense and perhaps even extreme reactions in its audiences. After all, whilst some people find conceptual art very refreshing and the only kind of art that is relevant to today's world, many others consider it shocking, distasteful, skill-less, or and most importantly, not art at all. Conceptual art is something that we either love or hate.

Perceptual Art??

Perceptual art is a form of art that can trace its roots to the art history concepts of perceptualism as well as to twentieth century inventions of conceptual art and performance art. In practice, perceptual art may be interpreted as the engagement of multi-sensory experiential stimuli combined with the multiplicity of interpretive meanings on the part of an observer. Sometimes, the role of observer is obscured as members of the public may unknowingly be participants in the creation of the artwork itself. It is very often what is generally called "performance art."