My Manifesto

• The art movement I chose: Surrealism movement (1924-1966).

• I want to unlock the power of imagination, leaving realism behind.

• Imagination and weird things are all about me.

• I chose this movement because it had an impact to break down the hierarchy/importance of the arts. I want to break the way people see art…its not just drawings.
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Surrealism

Do you even have to think? Or does it just flow like spilt milk?

Imagination/Fantasy

• 20^th century avant-garde movement that released the creative potential of the unconscious mind through art and literature.

• Thought by:  Aram Vardazaryan.

 

• Andre Breton defined Surrealism as “psychic”.

• Surrealism is define because it allows me the artist to rely on my own motifs, through my dreams and unconscious mind.

• Grew out of the Dada movement.

• Most influenced by the bizarre imagery and juxtaposition.

• This movement used art to depict the violent political situations, and now it depicts reality, because what I think and imagine all links up to what reality serves me.

• I want to touch minds. Their interest in myth and primitivism(the belief of what is simple and unsophisticated) shaped other movements and the style is influential even today. It influenced me. I think since grade 11.

• Take fantasies, dreams, the inner mind and obviously everything they did had a reason behind it, and present this in a visual way. What do you get? …Elysium.

• Surrealists drew/painted what is in the mind but the most intriguing thing about them is that they put their mind to it, they pay attention to what they do, and they love what they do. 
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• Surrealism is creepy and yet so deep. You only have to look closely to figure them out. You have to look close enough to figure me out but the harder you try the more you dream because youll think I live in a fantasy.

 

Who influenced me?

 

• Santiago Caruso created art that had me questioning myself, so many times.

• He was a fine artist and illustrator.

• He created countless covers for friction books.

• He described himself as a symbolist, who recreates the deformation of reality that human being perceive. He looks deeper to find a new kind of perception.

• He tried to summon a poetic phantom that supplies a wider vision of human, contemplating the beautiful, the frightening, the forgotten in the shadows. The impossible in a gothic style.

• He combined religion, and politics  to reveal another vision of the world with regard to the unconscious, the damned ghosts we've buried and many other aspects of history and philosophy.

• Influenced by William Blake and other symbolists such as Max Klinger.

• The elements of evil, sin, beauty, love and memory inspired him. His poetry explained his art in more detail.

• His artwork is closely related to literature and philosophy.

• He does his artwork as if he was writing a poem, so when you see his art you should read the image as text.

• The medium he used was ink and water colours.

Shanel?

• Shanel is a Graphic designer, a painter and a sister.

• She has created artwork for school and nothing more.

• She describes herself as a symbolist, who sees things differently from their normal state of view. She looks deeper to find a more deeper/new meaning.

•  She doesn’t write poetry, nor songs to explain her art, her mind is her verse, her heart is the rhymes and her art becomes her mix tape. Surrealism.

• Her art is not that “gothic” but it is rarely pure.
• She creates art that is unreal, unthinkable, unsophisticated, beautiful but yet so unconscious.
• She combines nature, beliefs and history to portray different perceptions of the world.
• She creates art that includes things that will never live, (things that have been buried into the mind of normal people of things being possible).
• Influenced by Santiago Caruso.
• The elements of beauty, sin, evil, good, love, hatred, inspired her.
• The medium she uses is pencil, ink and acrylic paint.
• Her artwork is related to her personal life.
• Her best painting is the one she hasn’t done yet.

Escape into life

Styria

La Muerta

The blind eye

 

Manifesto

Philosophies and Principles

• I believe if there's good there's bad.

• Everything has a sign and a meaning.

• I believe that innocence is another word for unreal.

• I believe in guardian angels, and if there's those then there are demons

• My art describes half of my thoughts.

• My hands describe half of my heart.

• I believe in the unreal, the unseen before, the unthought-of…the surrealist.

Purpose

The first art I produce influences the next art to come.

My role is to confuse people, make them ask questions that have no answers.

To inspire those who think being weird is wrong.

I focus on what I feel is right.

My role is to make surrealism the new realism.

My purpose is that my art  comes from the awaken sleep. That’s  how I dream.

 Personality

• Strong with finding meaning.

• I'm a very simple person when it comes to my designs.

• I use simple colours that relate to one another.

• Black…the colour black is solid. I use it as a foundation for my art. To you it might depict death but to me it depicts new life, eg before I was born my eyes were closed I  saw nothing but darkness before I  saw light.
• I'm a deep person, not a philosopher, nor a scientist but a surrealist. All my art has to have meaning or it just remains as art and not mine.
• I'm crazy about the unreal we could go out anytime.
• I'm weird, I know I've been told, I don’t know why either, its just who I am.
• I'm a closed book but that doesn’t mean the cover describes who I am.
• I'm a ball of nerves buy my art is my leader.
• I might look innocent…

My Manifesto

• Confuse people, don’t let them figure you out…why should they?.

• There is purpose and reason and always a sign regarding what you do.

• You don’t just rely on what research gives you, there are dreams and thoughts that need to be compressed.

• Don’t be afraid to put different elements next to each other or morph things, its beauty.

• Using bizarre imagery is nature so as using toilets and calling it art.
• The mind is multi-faceted. It’s the trigger that scares the eyes.
• You don’t need to be understood.
• Every art that you produce has an end, a middle and an apex, use black on the apex who cares…they’ll understand later.
• Fantasy or not its were you dream.
• Naked women with tusks, men with no eyes, angel pregnant with thousands of little worms, a boy with an upside down head with no lips and a little girl with candy in her hands devouring Satan's intestines instead of the candy. Its just my mind.

Bibliography

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• Story, A. (2016, 02 15). Surrealism. Retrieved 08 27, 2016, from m.theartstory.org: www.m.theartstory.org/movement-surrealism.htm

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• Vardazaryan, A. (2011). Artstation. Retrieved 08 27, 2016, from Artstation.com: www.artstation.com