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Originally Posted by DarkJedi
Escher isn't an artist. More like an Illustrator.
Basically, It's the same reason that Dali and Norman Rockwell aren't artists. They may technically be proficient and clever with their ideas, but there is no real emotion or truth behind their paintings.
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Illustrators are artists too. And you saying there's no real emotion or truth behind their paintings... is your opinion only, and that doesn't define if they're an artist or not. Sorry.
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Originally Posted by DarkJedi
The Surrealists had but one law: the purpose of surrealism was to create outrage and shock in the minds of the bourgeousie. No atrocity, not enven child rape could get you kicked out of the group. The only thing that could get you kicked out was to back down and apologize, to lose face.
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The purpose of Surrealism was not to create outrage and shock. A correct definiton is the following:
"According to the major spokesman of the movement, the poet and critic André Breton, who published "The Surrealist Manifesto" in 1924, Surrealism was a means of reuniting conscious and unconscious realms of experience so completely that the world of dream and fantasy would be joined to the everyday rational world in "an absolute reality, a surreality." Drawing heavily on theories adapted from Sigmund Freud, Breton saw the unconscious as the wellspring of the imagination. He defined genius in terms of accessibility to this normally untapped realm, which, he believed, could be attained by poets and painters alike."
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/surrealism/
"People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings." - Salvador Dali |
