Surrealism
The
surrealism was cultural movement that began in the 1920. These was created by a
group of writers and painters aiming to resolve contradictory conditions of
dream and reality. The surrealism perceived a deep crisis in western culture
and responded with a revision of values at every level by getting inspired by
the psychoanalytical discoveries of Freud and the ideology of Marxism.
In
this image called “The Menaced Assassin” created in 1927. Rene Magritte provide
an enigmatic clue where we can see three distinct perspective of view, where we
can appreciate in the outside of the small room three men’s watching the inside
of the room from the outside, probably looking amazed the dead body of the
women in the couch or either the man listening music so calm. Also we seen two
men’s in the inside of the room by the wall, on the left side we can see a man
with a cudgel on his hand and on the right side a man with a net. What makes this
painting be part of the Surrealism is that the environment inside this little
room looks very intriguing and so calm at the same time, creating a feel of
thrill by making us the viewers have a mystery that would never be solved.
"The Menaced Assassin" Rene Magritte 1927
Oil on canvas
Dimension: 59 1/4" x 6' 4 7/8"
Pop Art
Pop-Art
was an art movement in painting, sculpture and printmaking that started in the mid-1950s
in London. People like Richard Hamilton defined Pop art in 1957 as something
popular, expendable, mass produce, sexy and glamorous. Pop art used to present
traditions of fine art by including popular culture Ads, celebrities such as
Marilyn Monroe and news. In other words Pop art used to made fun of advertisements,
billboards and comics.
One
of the most important artists of pop art who became popular around the half of
the twentieth century was Andy Warhol an American artist who led the figure in
the visual art movement. One of his famous art work was called “Campbell’s Soup
Cans” which consist in thirsty-two canvases of different varieties of can soup of
different flavors. In this art work Warhol shows how American were out of mind
with this mass consumption of can soup. Also we can appreciate how Warhol
repeat the same image with the same scale making the canvases uniform and
ubiquity of the Campbell’s can creating visual repetition showing how
advertisements used to repeat this product name.
"Campbell's Soup Cans" Andy Warhol 1962
Each canvases dimension are: 20 x 16"
Material was Synthetic polymer paint.
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