Why Paint in a Surreal Manner?
jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery(‘#jsArticleStep1 span.image a:first’).attr(‘href’,’http://i.ehow.com/images/a04/ue/0b/surrealistic-art-techniques-2.1-800X800.jpg’); }); “Little Blue Horses” by Franz Marc When the surrealists first exhibited their paintings, the public was outraged. They were used to seeing realistic depictions of everything. Before that time, paintings were used as cameras, and artists were considered talented if they depicted what they saw in highly realistic ways. The Brownie camera went on the market in 1900, and the first 35 mm camera was developed in 1913. Once the camera took away the task of realistically depicting subjects in the world, artists were free to paint whatever and however they wished. In 1911, Franz Marc painted pictures of horses, but his horses were blue. In 1924, surrealist Breton declared that the unconscious is the wellspring of the imagination and that artists were free to paint objects from their subconscious. That is what you will
“Little Blue Horses” by Franz Marc When the surrealists first exhibited their paintings, the public was outraged. They were used to seeing realistic depictions of everything. Before that time, paintings were used as cameras, and artists were considered talented if they depicted what they saw in highly realistic ways. The Brownie camera went on the market in 1900, and the first 35 mm camera was developed in 1913. Once the camera took away the task of realistically depicting subjects in the world, artists were free to paint whatever and however they wished. In 1911, Franz Marc painted pictures of horses, but his horses were blue. In 1924, surrealist Breton declared that the unconscious is the wellspring of the imagination and that artists were free to paint objects from their subconscious. That is what you will attempt to do when you begin a surreal painting. What Is the Technique? One way to evoke the subconscious is to tear out all kinds of pictures from magazines, and cut the subjects
