Lesson 7

Surrealism and Painting

[figurative] Surface VS depth hermeneutics

* Rene Margritte, Jean Dubuffet, Salvador Dali

Artist broke away from Dada

- Breton -> 1st definition of surrealism

               -> Pure psychic automatism

- Aragon

- Eluard

- Peret

Fantasy - things that routed with reality

AGAINST Binary Opposition 二元對立

- emphasize the freedom of the unconscious from morality and logic

- fragmenting human body altering scales

Jean Dubuffet

- express UNDERGROUND and Basic area of mind

Outsider's Art

- Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein [new realism]

- medium specificity

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*EG1 dematerialization

 - turning blue disc

*EG2 Sponges - light absorption

*EG3 Yves Klein

Yoko Ono - smoke painting

ongoing action > object / result

CAGE <=> Ono (score / receipe)

- work is about to be made but can imagine according to instruction

[possible work]

NO INTENTION NO ART

(Joseph Kosuth)

*Malcolm Morley

Aesop's Fables 1961

- Title of painting is very important

- The action of painting is already a painting

*Francis Bacon

*Picasso

*Egon Schiele

Searching info about Jean

Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)

- French painter and sculptor of the 2nd half of the 20 century

- Influenced by Hans Prinzhorn's Book " Artistry of the Mentally II"

- Art Brut -> Raw art

- Use oil painting using impasto thickened by materials such as sand, tar and shaw

- 1962 - limited color - red, W&B, Blue

- 1960s - sculpture - polystyrene + vinyl paint

- 1960 - 1961 - experiment with music

                         - made recording with Danish painter, Asger John

-1978 - w.Jasun Martz (USA)

 - The Pillory for Martz's avant - garde symphony