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Artist Influence – René Magritte
René Magritte is a surrealist painter, who is well-known for painting objects in places and situations where they shouldn’t. I’ve been interested in Magritte the past few years now, and I still enjoy going back and looking at his paintings from time to time; the surrealism in each of his paintings defies reality in makes you want to question your own reality.
My favourite of Magritte’s work is his `Time Transfixed,’ where the train is flying out of the fireplace. I enjoy this one for all the reasons that you think, why is the train so small, why is it flying out of the fireplace; these are the questions that Magritte would have wanted you to ask.
Magritte will always be one of the most well-known surrealist painters in the art world, and he will always be a great source of influence for me.
Text above is a mix of my own opinion and research of René Magritte.
Information and pictures found via the content below:
The essential René Magritte
In-text: (Alden and Magritte, 1999)
Bibliography: Alden, T. and Magritte, R. (1999). The essential René Magritte. New York: H.N. Abrams.
Artist Influence – Salvador Dali
`The specialised sciences of our times are concentrating on study of the three constants of life: the sexual instinct, the sentiment of death, and anguish of space-time.’ Salvador Dali, In `Dali,’ Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1968. This is a quote from the famous Salvador Dali, an artist who specialised in the style of surrealist painting.
I’m not completely familiar with Dali’s work, but from the brief amount of research which I have done, I can see that most of his work is being painted through surrealism. Dali created many surrealist paintings, most of which are illusions depicting world’s which he has created through paint. What I think when I look at Dali’s paintings, he wanted the viewer to question reality of his paintings, and maybe wanted to question where the idea for these came from.
My work that I’m currently working on, has a similar concept in the way of creating a surrealist world; Dali’s work is more extreme in the surrealism than mine is, but the idea of creating my own reality is similar to what Dali’s work depicts (that’s why gather anyway).
The text above is a mix of my own opinion and research of Salvador Dali.
Information and pictures found fire the content below:
Dali
In-text: (Dalí and Larkin, 1974)
Bibliography: Dalí, S. and Larkin, D. (1974). Dali. New York: Ballantine Books.
Project One – Week Six
Hi everyone!
Over the past week I’ve been working with 3d modeling software and been making good use of the 3d printer that is at the university. The images below are some of the items I’ve been printing with the 3d printer and it shows the evolution of the objects and how they progress.
Enjoy.
Railston Artworks 