The Case for Surrealism | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
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- Опубліковано 15 бер 2017
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"Surrealism" has become shorthand for the bizarre, the irrational, the hallucinatory. But what IS it? Or what WAS it? Today we delve into the history of Surrealism, as it formed in post-World War I Europe and as it has infiltrated our wider culture up to today. Here's our case for what Surrealism is, and why you should care about it.
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"In retrospect it may seem naive, but then again in retrospect everyone looks naive. That doesn't mean we stop trying."
Brilliant! Thank you for this video!
Likewise. A wonderful and profound observation and sentiment. Love it.
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Agreed, that's one to pin to the "quote board." Thanks!
I particularly hated this line.
How do you find it empowering? It's defeatist and self-deprecating
I adore Surrealism Art from the bottom of my heart. It embodies the absurdity of my wildest dreams and the slippery meaning of reality in one beautiful paradox. It plays with our sense of reality and fantasy while hiding secret messages and a thoughtful concept the artist wants to keep for himself alone.
I'm gonna use this comment in my art assessment what a great way to put it.
Loba Étoile it’s my fav too
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regurgitation from some book
I like cats.
Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts. - Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo despised the surrealists for being pseudo-intellectual males who were full of themselves. They were trying too hard to be artists, whereas Frida was born an artist
This comments reminds me of narnia for some reason 😄
Rijaa, me too 😁
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Rijaa Hussain maybe because it references a lion in a wardrobe and the first book is called “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?”
"The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood." - Andre Breton
All things are full of labor; Man cannot express it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, Nor the ear filled with hearing. - Word of God
As someone with no formal art education (beyond high school), I really appreciate these videos and love to hear some of the history and context behind my favorite works, and make connections to my own (limited) practice. Thank you!
I promise you are more educated on art than most
It's a shame that there are not more women artists here, there were so many in the movement: Dorothea Tanning, Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, Louise Bourgeois, Leonor Fini and Frida Kahlo to name a few. I know that some of them have estates that make using their images difficult, but this movement is one of the earliest to have so many prominent women artists.
lycheens I think because women before the movement they didn't have any role in society and they were repressed, and as a way of freeing one's own self and trying to be part of something other then their usual actions, they try to join the movement. I think It's a reaction to a political ideology.
frida was not fond of the title surrealist
Paper Sack troll
I know what you mean, but should point out that Carrington is briefly featured in the last couple of minutes. Don't think Kahlo is too great an example as representative of the movement either tbh.
Paper Sack at least they aren’t a paper sack.
Would love to see The Case for Dadaism
me too
Me three.
Neo Dadaism
dada
Surrealism has been so inspiring for me ever since I found out about Dali when I was 14. Long live Surrealism!
Surrealism is my favorite art movement because it resonates with me and I find it much more interesting than any lifelike depictions of real life, or extremely abstract things. It's a good balance of interpretation and blatant meaning for me
Surrealism is when you stare at a field of golden wheat outside of a car window, and see it turning into the sandy dunes of a land long forgotten, or an endless sea with impossible ships wearing sails of cloud. Surrealism is the desire to explore our worlds and others, Surrealism is the embodiment of imagination. This is why so many people love the works of artists like Rob Gonsalves. The images they create are more than just paint on canvas, but a chance to return to the land of fairy tales we all end up leaving as we grow up.
Wtf u come up with fairy tales?
The first paragraph describes more of Magical Realism than Surrealism if you ask me.
Romanticism, Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism, Symbolism, Expressionism, Dadaism, and Surrealism have always been my favourite art movements. As a brief introduction to Surrealism, this is great. That said, what is missing from this lovely little video is, quite frankly, the recognition of women artists in the movement. Frida Kahlo (though she rejected the label), Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, Leonor Fini, Kay Sage, Dorothea Tanning, Louise Bourgeois, and others should at the very least be mentioned. The art establishment, from museums to art history books, have neglected to recognize the importance and influence of women artists all the way through to this past century. We're only beginning to acknowledge just how substantive their contributions are and I find it more than a little disappointing that this video continues to perpetuate an androcentric narrative. It's true that in the past the established art world has been a "boys' club", but that has changed, and needs to continue to change.
I love these Case For videos
Congrats! Wonderful video, love the ending.
This will be another one I watch several times. So much good work! I appreciate how little you mention Dali and focus on so many great artists.
I learned a lot from this video. The bit about automatism reminded me of 12-tone and serial composers. Very similar techniques were being developed in music at the same time.
Thank you so much for including the work of the brilliant Remedios Varo!!!!!
Thank you so much for this! I have been a huge fan of surrealism for quite some time and it amazes me how it continues to excite me in completely new ways.
How can someone dislike this? I mean I understand not liking the work of an artist or group of artists (i.e. I HATE cubism) but you can't deny the intelectual work behind their beliefs and way of operating (I have a HUGE amount of respect for Picasso, I just don't like his work). You can appreciate the work behind something without liking the outcome. I think this is something that only applies to art...? Any way, my point it: I don't get who gave this a thumbs down.
Abby A Here here! I don't dig cubism myself (I do like Picasso's early works, like the Blue and Rose Period stuff). But by golly, I'll lecture the stuffing out of someone who dismisses the -ism cuz of ignorance. Brilliantly creative, that lot.
We could denied literaly everything we are agreed of. Or else we can not denied something no one has been agreed right? Or you can even denied this statement.
@William Guan maybe you'll like surrealist films instead.
@@antihinduismisbased I would recomend bunuels and Shuji terayama as good entranc eto surrealism cinema, maybe lynch too... Pastoral: to die in the country, Nazarin & Wild at heart are my bet :) taxi driver has a kind of surreal narrative, or at least has similar message... Silent Hill, Chu-Lip, Pathologic & Xenogears are some surreal games, Evangelion, Serial experiments lain, kino no tabi, trapeze and the most surreal and profund anime, Paranoia Agent are good examples too... Ghost in the shell, oh and The crazy family by Sogo Ishii It's a must for everyone interested in surreal films, wich movies would you recomend ?
@@Leon-hp1wm My very first thought when I read "surrealism" I thought: "Oh, Neon Genesis Evangelion is surrealist, right? I'm gonna like this!" and then I scroll through the comments, not expecting anyone to bring up anime, and there you are! Well, guess I'll write down all these titles and I'll watch 'em :)
Can we do something on the "Situationists," please?
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The scripting and research from this channels absolutely fantastic.
This is taking me back to some of my favorite days in art history classes :)
My word -- You've all outdone yourselves!
I love this series so much
wow, this one made me cry. I've enjoyed the other ones but what a pleasant surprise this was.
Very appreciative of the direction of content, something new, yet close to the others past. Thanks you so very much. I patiently wait for the others that follow, enjoying them presently.
This was an amazing video! I'm doing an art assignment on surrealism and watching this video helped me understand. Very well written glad I found the channel.
One of the most important art movements for sure! This is a 1 hour documentary packed into 10 minutes. Probably have to watch it 2 or 3 times to absorb all this information.
Love this. Thank you for posting Mrs. Green! :)
Brilliant Work here! Thank You for THIS!
Interesting, I hadn't known that the surrealists created/popularized the idea of artworks based on found objects... and now I do! Case made. :)
thank you for the amazing videos you guys do!!
I love this channel.I am learning so much!
Love this channel. Wonderful video.
Thanks for the great video!
Nicely told. Thank you.
Hieronymus Bosch was the first surrealist artist in Art History...
Pedro Menchén very true he is the first 🙂, he was so ahead of his time”
I've only discovered your videos recently and each one I watch makes me more and more excited to go and do something! When I have sunlight I think some polaroids needs to be taken. :)
Quite good. I especially appreciate that you covered where surrealism went after its high period.
These are informative summaries of various art styles. Thanks for posting.
Thank you so much for the video! Great analysis.
Wonderful video ! Love it, thanks ❤!
Thank you for this!
Excellent channel and series!
Loved this one. I love all of them to be fair, but this one hit home.
Excellent!!!!!!
I love these. This is what UA-cam is for.
Excellent presentation: concise, clear, on topic.
I’m a simple man who loves art whether it be macabre, epic or fantastic. But surrealism is my favourite style.
That want prevent society from commuting more atrocities like both world wars has always stuck with me about this movement. It is a very endearing goal to have, and to use arts as a means to prevent things likeviolence and war is such a beautiful and empowering thing.
Oh man, I've never clicked on a Art Assignment video so fast
I'm happy to see how well this turned out!! What a sweet ending
Wonderful video! Loved this!
Love "case for" episodes
I hear a lot of modern figurative artists use the analogy of the sonnet. They're saying that there is infinite freedom within the confines of the established rules of couplets and meter, etc. instead of constantly questioning what a poem is. People outside of the art world do not get anything from surreal questions about art; that's my opinion. So art doesn't prevent world wars. That is society's fault. Changing art doesn't help. We must change society.
side note: I am more strongly influenced by Dali than any other artist.
I've been making surreal digital collages and now that my work is starting to get a little attention, people are beginning to ask me that age old question about surrealism: What does it mean? or What am I looking at here? Often I don't know what to say, there really isn't any hidden meaning, usually I just put together elements that just seem to look right together, I like leaving room for interpretation , I like hearing what others think it's about, it may be something I never even thought about when making it. I love surrealism and I'm not sure why , I guess it's like what what said in the video, it's a blend of the familiar and the strange. I find realism kind of boring, as an art professor once told me:"if you want realism , go take a photograph." I like the dreamlike quality to it, I like searching for meaning in surreal work. Any other artists out there who have been asked the question of what it means, and what do you say?
Thank you for making these videos 💖
These videos blow my mind. Thank you
Really fantastic video! Thanks a lot
Could we get a "Case for the National Endowment for the Arts" soon?
It seems some people may need a reminder there.
Er, yes. Working on it presently!
77cicero77 Pfff... I don't need permission from my parents, and I don't need permission from my government to make art.
You don't seem to really understand then. Its not about "permission" .. it's about helping promote art in society. Art is the only thing a society leaves behind. Its how it defines itself. Ignore art and your society withers. Nothing wrong with the society using resources to define itself in something larger than "e have more bombs and tax breaks for people who don't need them".
National Endowment for the Arts is the Government CHOO|SING the art it approves. That is stupid and I don't want my tax dollars spent like that. They never give it to struggling artists but those already doing well and picked by the system of curators in the system. I want a separation of Church and State and Art and State.
Intentionality is a big part of art. Did the surrealists predominantly believe there was an unconscious coherence to their work, did they believe they were being intentionally incoherent or did they not really write much on the relationship between intentionality and art?
I've always thought that they used the methods and figures they did not to say one particular message that the subconscious would understand perfectly, but instead they wished to give the subconscious a range of potential tools for its own liberation and self expression.
Incongruenta comprehensibila enclitic este o rezonanță a unui ludic praxiologic ce frizează vetustul exhaustiv😊
Thank you, I really enjoyed that.
Thank you!
Thanks for the vid. Always great.
Probably late on this video, but it’s so refreshing to see such a diverse approach to surrealism. I’ve always kept myself distant from surrealism cause most of the times I’ve been taught about it, it was mostly associated with the controversial figure of Dali, and despite being someone who separate art from the artist persona, this cause a misunderstanding of the beauty and depth of this avant guarde movement. Luckily I started appreciating it more and more thanks to David Lynch works. Surrealism is so much more than just Dali, and it’s very important to see such educational videos exploring the diversity that characterise avant-guarde movements.
Oh yes, I freely admit the academy must diversing its figures. Namely David Lynch, Frida Kahlo &c.
Well done research, thanks for the video.
Y'know that fur tea cup is really funny because today you'd see that re-emerge in compilations of "cursed objects" which is sorta similar. Cursed memes are usually about defying established rules in ways that make us uncomfortable and that tea cup does that. It wasn't intended to be "cursed" but it sorta was intended to do that thing so in a way it's both reinterpreted and retains it's original intent.
Thats so incredibly beautiful
thank you so much for the video!
Thank you for including a painting by Remedios Varo, she's the coolest
I’m here for an assignment. Just needed to put that in.
I had no idea that surrealism had such subversive and pro-diversity history behind it. I recently started trying to incorporate such a style into my own art behind it, and I’m absolutely thrilled to learn more about its history!
I love Surrealism, thank you for this.
I'd love to see a case for Early Netherlandish Renaissance.... or if that's too broad, you can just focus on the most interesting artist of them, Hieronymus Bosch. :-)
this is definitely a contender for my favorite UA-cam video
I would really like to know the name of that song in the back, I love it.
Good video, good information, good job!
Surrealism loves me. Thank you for sideloading this vidéo
Thank you useful teaching intro tool.
my favorite type of art
Wow what a great video, look forward to seeing more :)
Thanks! This is a style of art that I never thought about before your video. It seems a natural reaction to WW1 from an artist's point of view.
@DavidLynch you are gonna love this.
best video ive seen in a while! loved it
Would like to see a The Case For video about Realism/Figurative Art/Representational Art and especially on your take on where it stands in the very progressive influx of art/artists in contemporary art. I love this channel, by the way! Thank you!
This video is love!
Once again another brilliantly informative video, my only criticism is that the lack off music. For me, the use of music in your videos is a key element to remembering key facts about the subject in question. For example the use of Beethoven's 8th symphony in "the case for Mark Rothko", every time I listen to it, it floods my mind with information linked to Rothko and abstract expressionist as a whole therefore helping me remember important information. Furthermore listening to the background music of any "case for" video is a huge help when i personally feel creatively 'dry'. Please consider the power that the music has on the viewer when crafting your next video.
I love these Case For videos. It challenges me every time.
This is so good for my students.
Going out with friends for my birthday tonight, going to play the Exquisite Corpse game. I'm very excited.
+Minotauronabike In case you need some tips: ua-cam.com/video/bauTo2C7M3Q/v-deo.html
Haven't done enough research in spite of drawing surrealism much whole life and this vid sums it up well.
Didnt know pbs has an art channel, instant sub
Love this channel, as a new subscriber I have but one request. The Case for Francis Bacon, please
This is great thanks for spreading news about the surrealist movement, people need to hear it 😁
very nice video ...I enjoyed it, well done!
The rejection of discrimination. The rejection of the ideal. The rejection of the truth. So pretty much relativism.
I love that you included Mexican artists!!! loved this video!
As a mexican surrealist photographer i would like to share my work // take a look // instagram.com/davidonirico
Varo art was dope.
very well collated video!
Learning about surrealism was the best part of art school.
9:53 Wonderful
I love Claude Cahun!
Interesting as always! Could you please do a video about expressionism?