It's delightfully weird with hints
of surrealism which is what some might expect when a thoroughly Japanese development studio sets a game within a thoroughly American location.
Not exact matches
«Cemetery Man» (1994) is a quirky blend
of romance, lust,
surrealism, horror, and black comedy
which transcends the work
of better - known Italian horror maestros like Dario Argento thanks to its grotesquely humorous bent.
Wes Anderson's trademark ironic eccentricity and Roald Dahl's vaguely menacing but entirely lighthearted
surrealism combine to form Fantastic Mr. Fox, Anderson's first animated effort,
which uses the same maddeningly traditional stop - motion techniques as Isle
of Dogs.
The manner in
which Connie knocks across Ray is genuinely hilarious and the increasing absurdity and
surrealism of the night's events sometimes call to mind Scorsese's After Hours.
The illogic pays off through instances
of idiot - savant
surrealism,
of which there are enough to make it hard to pick a favorite.
Both share a space with
surrealism in the positioning
of animals (artificial or deceased) in industrial spaces (London's Battersea Power Station is the iconic backdrop
of the «Animals» cover) as mute commentary, perhaps, on man's destructive relationship with his environment — a read that jibes comfortably with the thrust
of Children
of Men, in
which we're told that one day in the not - too - distant future, humans suddenly stop reproducing.
Behind «Holy Motors» — the strange, perverse and entertaining neo-noir film by Léos Carax — lies a near century
of movie
surrealism:
of deliberately fantastic, illogical and sometimes pathological filmmaking in
which the cineaste (whether it's Luis Bunuel or Jean Cocteau or Maya Deren or Carax) tries to dream on screen and carry us into the maddest
of reveries.
His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du Surréalisme)
of 1924, in
which he defined
surrealism as «pure psychic automatism».
A printable resource
which has many examples
of Photographers who use
surrealism within their work in some way (either through theme, technique or idea)
The rapid and breathtaking succession
of avant - garde movements,
which invented new ways
of understanding space, are represented in groups
of works devoted to dadaism, constructivism, neoplasticism,
surrealism and abstraction - création.
As he began creating metamorphic compositions — in
which a particular image would be created out
of thematically relevant forms (for example: clowns whose faces and bodies are comprised
of circus figures)-- Tchelitchew's art became more closely associated with
surrealism.
Mexican artists did not embrace
surrealism in significant numbers, for
which Breton never forgave them (or the country, for the assassination
of Trotsky in August 1940).
Influenced by
surrealism, the studies
of Freud and Jung, African art, and Pacific Northwest Native American art, Pousette - Dart pursued the transcendental not only in abstract forms, but also in the very way in
which he applied paint.
A sense
of familiarity and
surrealism is all at once present in his work,
which has, in most recent years received much praise from the art public.
The exhibition will particularly address the ways in
which Lucas engages with the legacy
of surrealism — from her clever transformations
of everyday objects to her exploration
of sexual ambiguity and the tension between the familiar and the disorienting or absurd.
Initially inspired by philosophy, Motherwell's commitment to painting was cemented following his move to New York in 1940, where he was influenced by the principles
of surrealism and his friendship with Roberto Matta; among the highlights here is Mexican Window (1974)
which references a trip Motherwell and Matta took to Mexico in 1941.
The artists represented here worked in the tradition
of surrealism and magic realism,
which sought to convey unconscious yearnings.
In contrast with the artist's previous work,
which addressed universal political concerns, this new series returns to the essence
of the imagination, an exploration
of the subjective and the subconscious that is inspired by
surrealism.
His friend Onslow Ford gave talks on
surrealism at the New School
of Social Research in
which he commented extensively on Matta's works.
There are the ones that establish you publicly as an artist respectful
of art history and scholarship — in Brown's case,
surrealism, appropriation, the mannerists — and then there are the ones you keep secret,
which stained your imagination as a teenager staring at the covers
of progressive rock records and science fiction paperbacks.
Returning to a well - trodden strategy
of surrealism, displays that allude to conversations between objects and the systems
which display and mediate them is a trait in a number
of shows at the moment...
Alongside the paintings are small figurines,
which Kvetny refers to as «fossils», excavated from her paintings as physical embodiments
of the universe that she has created — a unique universe
of contemporary
surrealism for the Internet age.
In the mid-forties the artists
of the New York School gradually stopped evoking classical myths (to
which both surrealist artists and the existentialist writers made frequent recourse) and they looked beyond
surrealism toward a subject matter
of even more immediate and personal introspection.
The photographs in the «Érotique voile» series (1934), in
which Man Ray posed his model, are now among the most outstanding works
of surrealism in the Parisian circles
of which Oppenheim was highly acknowledged.
In the first Surrealist Manifesto (1924) Breton defined
surrealism as «pure psychic automatism by
which one intends to express verbally, in writing or by other method, the real functioning
of the mind.»
This new mix
of surrealism and exploration
of personal feelings in an emotional language closer to music —
which is inherently abstract — broke free from the centuries
of figuration that preceded it.
She founded three
of the most important avant - garde galleries
of the 20th century: Guggenheim Jeune, in London's Cork Street,
which brought
surrealism to London before the second world war; Art
of This Century,
which opened in New York in 1942 after Peggy's return to the US; and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice -
which still houses her personal collection in the palazzo where she ended her life.
His work took on a singular style,
which defies categorization but shows the influences
of the dominant movements
of the 1950s, abstract expressionism and
surrealism, as well as the dominant movements
of the 1930s and early 1940s, social realism and the American Scene.
But it was Andrea Grützner who shone with her series «Hive»,
which addressed notions
of surrealism and a sinister side to architecture.
Santore also includes moments
of transcription,
which add a touch
of surrealism to the otherwise purely perceptual works, as figures from Goya and Giotto appear in the skies.
The Columbian - born South American artist Fernando Botero is noted for his large - scale contemporary art - a unique blend
of surrealism and figurative art comprising obese depictions
of both humans and animals, some
of which have been repeated as sculpture.
Each
of these artists combined the predominant avant - garde influences
of cubism and
surrealism (imported to New York by European exiles from World War II) as well as the writings
of Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, and Jean - Paul Sartre with their own personal concerns to create the distinctive works for
which they are best known.