Surrealism

B&B in Art Willem den Broeder Reinard Maarleveld September 2000

Surrealistic art is based on images and ideas coming straight from the subconscious. Rational and logical aspects of thought are overruled by the spontaneous flow of creative impulses from the surrealistic mind of the creator. The making of surrealistic art is therefore largely a process of coincidence, which might be called an automated stream of subconsciousness.

Like the next example: "Text texet xeten story’s what automatism or instinctively writing frequently have the result of blue text appear like the sole of my left foot without skin but covered with cornea so that swimming would be supple in syrup seawater in Iceland with a diving equipment as a three-piece suit in black with top hat and give me hundred grams smoked ham please

History of surrealism
The "Garden of Earthly Delights”by Jeroen Antonisz from Aken (better known as Hiëronymus Bosch) (fig.1&2) could be looked upon as one of the earliest examples of surrealistic art. .

             

fig.1 “Garden of Earthly Delights”  triptych close

fig.2 “Garden of Earthly Delights” triptych open  wih left paradise and right hell

 

Dadaism (1916) revolutionized the way people looked at art, literature, film, photographs and theatre.Coincidence was a major factor in the creation of sound poems, and collages of photograps and newspaper clippings. Marcel Duchamp transformed ordinary objects in works of art by simple changes and alterations. He called them "ready-mades". 

                                         fig.3.  2x Ready-made  of Marcel Duchanp

Marcel Duchamp: art innovator of the 20th century.

In the ‘Manifeste du Surrealisme' (1924) presents the French poet and writer André Breton surrealism as a new form of art. The word 'surrealism' was used for the first time by the poet Guillaume Apollinaire (1917).

Breton lead a group surrealistic writers. Among them Aragon, Eluard, Crevel, Péret en Soupault. The painters Arp, Max Ernst, Masson, Miro (not formally, although according Breton he was the greatest pictorial surrealist!), Roy, Tanguy joined this group.

The surrealistic painters Salvador Dali, Giorgio de Chirico, Rene Magritte en Bruñuel became members in the late twenties.

Dutch surrealistic artists are: Joop Moesman, Theo van Baaren (poet), Fedde Weidema, Hendrik Poesiat, Pieter Ouborg, Rik Lina, Hendrik Beekman and Willem den Broeder.

The art of surrealism

Surrealists focus upon spontaneous ideas and impulses from the mind. They disregard the laws of nature and reason and transform reality into a new and imaginary world of their own.

Willem den Broeder's "semi-ready-mades" are examples of this philosophy. By painting the image of a staring eye on a small tree something familiar is turned into a strange and unreal object.

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In the Netherlands Hendrik Beekman's Art Cabinet (Marrum, Friesland) is a center of surrealistic art. Beekman himself is a well known surrealist, nowadays mostly working with bronze materials.