Art Movement: Surrealism artists

Here are some surrealism artists, I have chosen these 3 images to look at.

Salvador Dali 'Sleep'

I quite like this painting by Salvador. The face is being help up by wooden crutches, it also looks as if its just balanced right and any movement will cause it to fall and wake the face up. The background is quite barren apart from a temple looking building on the far right. This gives a hint that this is drawn in the dream, that it is not real.

Giorgio de Chirico 'Melancholia'

Max Ernst 'Europe after the Rain II' Decalcomania technique

This is a Decalcomania technique. Paint is placed on a board of some sort with some water, you mix the paint and water around and place a piece of paper down then peel it off. It leaves a paint mark that you are able to work into with paint brushes or pens / pencils. This was created using this technique. I quite like the look of this and it does look like the buildings have been eroded away after the rain, part of the buildings are slumped or not there to show the damage. I have also tried this technique with my own work.

Different art paths: Tattoos

There are different ways to express art, for example. Tattoos. This kind of art is permanent as it is inked into your skin (unless you get it removed) which can express your personality or thoughts. In a way they express you in images like words couldn't. Some people get small ones that dot around their body, some go over the top and are covered from head to toe. But either way, its their way of expressing themselves and it is a very creative way. People can design their own ones and get artists to tattoo it for them, to be unique, or they can choose ones from collections that they find that speaks to them as such.

 These are a selection of tattoos from Google. I quite like these tattoos as they have been inked out precisely and has left a magnificent piece of art work on the person. Even if it wasn't meant to show someone's personality, it still looks pretty good.




















Some tattoo designs can be drawn on paper and taken to the artists, or you can use pictures for the tattoo.

Tattoos have meanings, for example, a tear drop by someone's eye can mean a lengthy prison sentence, but more than likely it means that the wearer has committed murder. Another is having 3 dots on the hands or around the eyes, it means 'mi vida loca' or 'my crazy life', it's not associated with any particular gang but the gang lifestyle itself.

Playing cards, or suits of the deck in general will usually indicate an inmate who likes to gamble, it can also represent a person who generally views life as a gamble. The tattoo is very popular in Russian prisons, where each deck has its own meaning;
Spade: represents a thief.
Clubs: Symbolize a criminal in general.
Diamonds: are reserved for stoolpigeons and informants - if the cards have this deck, then it was likely applied with force.
Hearts: Implies that someone is looking for a romantic partner in the prison, which may also be forcibly applied.


There are 5 types of tattoos, traumatic tattoos, also called 'natural tattoos' that results from an injury, especially asphalt from roads or pencil lead; amateur tattoos; professional tattoos, both from traditional methods and modern tattoo machines, cosmetic tattoos which is also known as 'permanent makeup' and medical tattoos.

Many tattoos can serve as rites of passage, marks of status or rank, symbols of religious and spiritual devotion, decorations of bravery, sexual lures and marks of fertility, pledges of love, punishment, protection and as the marks of outcasts, slaves and convicts. The symbolism and the impact of these tattoos vary in different places and cultures.

The tattoos show how a person feels about a relative or about an unrelated person. These days people choose to have tattoos for artistic, cosmetic, sentimental/memorial, religious and magical reasons, as well as to symbolize their belonging to a particular group, such as criminal gangs or a particular ethnic group or law-abiding subculture.


Tattooing wasn't recent, it has been practiced for many centuries is many different cultures spread throughout the world. For example, the Ainu, an indigenous people of Japan, traditionally had facial tattoos, as did the Austroasians.

Surrealism excersises

This is a drawing of a zombie in a suit. During lesson we were asked to draw something from a dream or a nightmare, one of my recent dreams was of me being in a zombie apocalypse and decided that I would draw a zombie as I am no good at drawing any detail so it is quite sketchy. I decided to give lots of marks as if the skin had cracks and parts were mauled off. For example the arm with no shoulder, part of the brain showing and no ears. This was drawn with only charcoal there are no pencil marks underneath, drawn straight from charcoal which means that any mistakes will be part of the drawing. Since the lines were quite light I decided to go over them while pressing hard on the charcoal which made the outlines darker and thicker. This meant that the lighter marks wasn't going to blend into one mess.

The right shoulder of the zombie looks bigger on purpose due to I didn't want it to look plain and boring facing forward. So I decided to have it leaning forward on one side slightly, as if swinging its arms back and forward when it takes a step forward. 

 

 

These are pieces of work that I did in class. We had to take out 3 words at random from a bag of other words and create images from those three words. These are what I created from each combination, I even wrote what the words were so that others knew what I was trying to make.

Some are quite silly and some are plain and simple as there may have not been more than one or two combinations.

Some are quite surreal if you look at each one individually, they are something that you wouldn't think to draw randomly, they were created with a mixture of words.

Art Movement: Dadaism

Dadaism

 

Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century. Dada began in Zurich, Switzerland in 1916 which spread to Berlin shortly thereafter, but the height of the New York Dada happened the year before in 1915. The roots of Dada lay in pre-war avant-garde, the movement was caused by a reaction to World War One, Nationalism and Rationalism.

 

The key artists in the movement are: Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, Hans Arp, Raoul Hausmann, Hanna Höch, Johannes Baader, Tristan Tzara, Francis Picabia, Richard Huelsenbeck, George Grosz, John Heartfield, Marcel Ducham, Beatrice Wood, Kurt Schwitters, Hans Richter and Max Ernst, among others.

 

Dada had influences and the main ones were Abstraction and Expressionism and to a lesser extent, Futurism. Dada was created and intended to provoke an emotional reaction from the viewers, typically shock or outrage. Using an early form of shock art, the Dadaists pushed mild obscenities, scatological humour (Toilet humour, or scatological humour, is a type of off-colour humour dealing with defecation, urination and flatulence, and to a lesser extent vomiting and other body functions.), visual puns and everyday objects which were renamed as "art" into the public eye.

 


Different art paths: My work

I have created different art works, although they aren't as amazing as artists I've researched, they are a good standard to match my skill of work. But that can all change over the years as I practice more and learn new things.



This is one of my paper drawings, normally I am unable to draw things like this on demand, I have a strange way of drawing something once and unable to re create it, I tend to use this to my advantage. I love drawing things like dragons, the scales and the wings, the horns and the spikes. Its like drawing a dangerous and mystical freedom.



These two are the first of my digital drawings. The 'Zyalsas' was a creation of my DeviantArt name, I thought that before I make any art, I'd have to create my name, right? This was before I got my Huion tablet, so these two were created with a mouse. The wings in the title were partly traced as I haven't covered how to draw wings just yet. This wolf below was random, I was messing about in a new software and created the moon, and I thought, a wolf might look good with this. It took me awhile but I'm proud it is the first of my many digital paintings to come, but all in due time.




I have also decided to draw a sword with my Huion tablet. I decided to give it a blue shimmer to look like lightning was coming off of the blade, the markings on the top of the blade were random and I thought it'd make the blade look more cooler with it on.

Art Movement: Impressionism

Impressionism

 

Impressionism is one of the movements I will be looking at. Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement that began with a group of Paris-based artists. Their independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s, in spite of harsh opposition from the conventional art community in France.

 I quite like impressionism art works as the artists don't sit around in their houses or desks trying to create art but instead they go out and capture what  is happening around them, events or memories that can't be captured with a camera. It makes the work even more beautiful. For example the piece on the left of a dog shaking the water off captures the movement of the dog and how the water would look like in slow motion, the drops flying out in every direction while the dog's skin and fur move around. This art piece is called 'Shakin' off the blues by Iris Scott'

 

 

'The cliffs at Etretat by Claude Monet' shows the beauty of the cliff and sea landscape combines, instead of re creating this effect on any paper, the artist has gone out and seen something like this and captured it, the oil work on the canvas gives the cliffs, sky and sea a rougher and natural look.

'Starry night by Vincent Van Gogh' This is one of my favourite pieces of art work from Van Gogh, the loose brush strokes gives off a one motion feel to his work, as if it wasn't just paint in his work. The way the sky, stars and moon work together in the sky is recreated in a different way but still looks stunning. The village below doesn't capture the eye at first glance but brings the viewer in once they've looked at the starry night. (This is Post Impressionism) 

'Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande-Jatte by Georges Seurat' This is also a art work I like from the Impressionism genre. I had learnt about this art work when I was in primary school and couldn't believe that this was created with tiny dots of paint. This kind of skill created something amazing, this artist was able to be outside in the environment and create this art work which then inspired other artists, although they could never reach this unique skill, they went on to create works of art. I like this art work because the way the artist has captured the shade and where the sun is, it shows that this wasn't recreated in an office type of environment.

Art Movement: Futurism

Futurism

 

Futurism lasted from 1909 - 1944.

Futurism is a revolutionary Italian movement that celebrated modernity, the vision was outlines in a series of manifestos that had attacked the long tradition of Italian art in favour of a new avant-garde.

They had glorified industrialization, technology and transport along with speed, noise and the energy of urban life.
Futurism celebrated the advanced technology and urban modernity, committed to the new the members wished to destroy the older forms of culture and to demonstrate the beauty of modern life.

These are some Futurism art pieces that I quite like, the first one is a mixture of warm colours with a few cold colours near the bottom. Although you cant make sense of what is happening entirely, it still has a sense of mystery of what the main purpose of those figures are or what made the artist create this. It is created by Carlo Carrà, 'Funeral of the Anarchist Galli' 1910-11.

 

This painting was made by, Umberto Boccioni. He was an Italian sculptor, painter, printmaker and writer and as one of the principal figures of Futurism he had helped shaped the movement's revolutionary aesthetic as a theorist and an artist. His art was concerned with dynamism of form and with a breakdown of solid mass in his sculpture he continued to influence artists long after his death.









This painting is called 'Elasticity by Umberto Boccioni 1912'. This has a lot more warm colours than the other two which makes the painting seem more happy. The reds, oranges and yellows take up most of the centre of the painting, while some blues and greens take the outer edges. Although you cannot see what the painting is trying to mean it is still something beautiful to look at. By the top right corner it looks like ship sails, although I'm not sure what its meant to represent, it does fit with the rest of the work.

Different art paths: Minecraft

 

There isn't a set path for art. There are many different versions of each art category and many more versions of those categories, it all depends on the artist and what they see. There is a lot of gaming artists, those who create things in the games or create interpretations of those games.
For example, Minecraft, this is a sandbox game which thousands of people play all over the world, you can create art in the game or art of the game. Art in the game is called 'Pixel art' because the game is made up of cubes, it is almost like a pixel on a screen. These are some examples of my favorite pixel art works. (Images are from google)

From small creations:

 To larger and more complicated:










Even to 3-D:

These are works of art called 'Fan art' viewers of streamers or normal players create art work of events that occurred in game:

These are fan arts of the map 'Mianite' in which , Captainsparklez, Omgitsfirefoxx, SynHD and iijeriichoii play in with other people. They stream everyday and play on this world which has a story line in which they are part of and as they go along, they uncover new things. The viewers create art work like this for them.

 This kind of work got me inspired to draw digitally rather than on paper, even though I preferred working with pencil to paper as it felt that I had to be more precise with my work. Most digital art goes into detail with shading and shape of the people but having something simple and cartoony can still have a great affect on people as it can give a more humorous side to the art or the event being captured.



Sometimes people also create animations of Minecraft. For example, if something funny happens in an episode or stream, some people create short animations of that event for others to watch and laugh at. I do not own these videos, I just enjoy watching it as it is brilliantly made and very funny hence why I am sharing it here.