Rene Magritte, 'The Treachery of Images', 1928 - 1929
Oil on Canvas, 63.5 x 93.98 cm
Los Angeles County of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Salvador Dali, 'The Metamorphosis of Narcissus', 1937
Oil on Canvas, 51.1 x 78.1 cm
Tate Modern, London
Salvador Dali, 'The Persistence of Memory', 1931
Oil on Canvas, 24 x 33cm
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
3 comments:
Salvador Dalí
The Persistence of Memory
Surrealism looks realistic but parts can't be the sur means above realistic
Chance ----> eg Max Ernst
Anti logic -----> Dreams
Lived in Paris even though he was Spanish
Melted clocks all over the picture
White thing - horse, eye, nose, rhinoceros, wing
Tree in a box
Coastline in the background
There's a fly on one of the clocks
Closed pocket watch on the box
A second man made platform
The horizon is realistic with water
In front of the platform there's a rock
Sense of heaviness
Every clock has the same time
The ants are a symbol of decay
Symbol of an egg - new life, rebirth
Melting symbol of unreality
Blob in the middle is a self portrait - Dalí himself is asleep in this portrait
Is just a record of a dream - fundamentally
Salvador Dali
The Metamorphosis of Narcissus
A hand in the foreground
A double entendres
Hand holding an egg
Plant growing out of the egg
Game of checkers in the background
Flowers in the background
People in the middle back
Fires through the middle
Dog on the front right
Ants climbing the thumb
Earthy colours
Person in the water
Sort of reflection in the water
Statue on a plinth on the checkerboard
Finger is a mirror of the person
Shadow behind the hand with no owner
Mountains in the background
Person looks like a hand holding a walnut
Guy in the left, compared to reflection on the right completes the picture
Shadow of a chess piece
Dog eating a corpse
Rene Magritte
The Treachery of Images
The words mean "This is not a pipe"
When we think about art we think in terms of how we were taught by the surrealists
Naomi
SURREALISM
Dada had died out- majority of the artists became surrealists
Dada became contradictory.
sur'realism' looks real but the 'sur' is beyond this
Dada carried ideas of chance and anti-logic
These came out in a number of ways
Anti-logic > dreams
Salvador Dalí
Melting clocks, dead tree, a reflective surface next to a cliff face, ants on pocket watch, horizon doesn't end, fly on a clock.
The ants are a symbol for Dalí for decay overtime
Egg, symbol of new life
Time- passage of time, melting- a symbol of unreality, conflict between reality and unreality
Blob in the middle is self portrait- Dalí himself asleep
A record of a dream/ state of dreaming, not much deeper
The metamorphosis of narcissus
Either two hands or a hand and a person, checkerboard, statue on this, cliffs, dog, ants, egg
Dalí uses illusion
Hand holding a walnut
The reflection becomes the other part of the hand, line across the stone
Shadow is chess piece
Dog eating corpse, dog looks messed up
Egg symbolising new life
Story of narcissus, looks into the stream and falls in love with himself (narcissism) which leads to his death
The treachery of images
Pipe, signature, words, beige background
"This is not a pipe" reads
We are looking at a computer image of a painting, he is looking at a painting of a pipe
When we think about the world of art we think about it from the way surrealist taught us, foundational to modern art
Copy of a copy of a copy
Contradiction to his audience used to representation- his is about symbolism
Symbols are based on ideas
Important because it s when artist start to create art based on ideas not just representation
The pipe alone is representation
With the words it becomes symbolic
Died out in ww2, but became famous in Australia at this time
Rhiannon :)
(Sur)realism = looks realistic but could not exist.
Things that carried over: chance -> frotaise, basis not the art work, anti logic -> dreams
Salvador Dalí Spanish lived in France, The Persistence Of Memory 1931: landscape of beach, rectangle block with branch coming out from top. 3 Melted clocks, a white almost ear like thing, ants covering pocket watch, mountain/cliff, can't see anything beyond the water in the horizon, harsh colours, sense of heaviness, 5 to 7 is the time, symbols; ants-decaying, egg - new life, time & melting - unreality, blob in middle self portrait. Record of a dream.
'Metamorphosis of Narcissis' by Dalí 1937: crouched figure, double ontondra hand holding egg body in same position, crackers in background, clouds, pond, cracked egg flower growing out, figures in background, earthy sort of colours, dog, ants on thumb, shadow, seems like a fire, statue on a plinth, shadows. Allusion/ double images. Person on left could look like a hand holding walnut, reflection compared to one on right completes the picture, mirroring, shadow is chess piece, dog eating a corpse. Egg = life, Narcissis the Greek god fell in love with his own reflection metamorphosised into a stone statue, the whole story.
'The treachery of images' by Rene Magritte: "this is not a pipe" a painting of pipe not an actual pipe, audience sees a contradiction, anti representation pro symbolism, importance of what the artist is trying to say, the idea not the representation, idea not looks, context is incredible important,
By Phoebe Bennett
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