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Creating the Film
After spending days (worthwhile days I must say), looking at hundreds of Dada and Surreal images. See selected images for my presentation shown in my blog post Titled: Research for the Pecha Kucha Presentation, Posted: 29 November 2021. Along with my thoughts and taking on board some great advice from lecturers stated in my blog…
Research for the Pecha Kucha Presentation
8th November 2021 Firstly I made a mind map of some ideas to research, thinking about surreal art and Dada. I looked at some films that gave a good example of surreal art such as Alice in wonderland and Charlie and the chocolate factory. Alice In Wonderland Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Then I…
FullTime Pecha Kucha Presentations
5th of November 2021 What a jam packed day of fun and sometimes emotional and touching messages from a diverse range of presentations. Plenty of food for thought and wholesome food for the soul. I enjoyed watching so many presentations and everyone done so well. In particular, Shada Jameel What a brave lady you are,…
How the Surrealist Movement Shaped the Course of Art History
By: Jon Mann Sep 23, 2016 6:31pm https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-what-is-surrealism During the 1936 International Surrealist Exposition, held in London, guest speaker Salvador Dalí addressed his audience costumed head-to-toe in an old-fashioned scuba suit, with two dogs on leashes in one hand and a billiard cue in the other. Mid-lecture, constrained by the scuba mask, the Spanish artist…
A Brief History of Dada
The irreverent, rowdy revolution set the trajectory of 20th-century art By: Paul Trachtman May 2006 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/dada-115169154/ In 1919 Marcel Duchamp penciled a mustache and goatee on a print of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and inscribed the work “L.H.O.O.Q.” Spelled out in French these letters form a risqué pun: Elle a chaud au cul, or…
Speed Tutorials
29th October 2021 I was nervous to start with as I haven’t done anything like this before, to my amazement I totally enjoyed speaking with different lectures and looking at different ideas, taking on board what each lecturer had to say about what I had researched and already experimented with. I spoke to lecturers Mathew…
Playing Around with Thoughts
Well, its the 26th October 2021 and I’m still unsure where my experiment is taking me. And from re-looking back on my research so far, thinking about what I felt through the actual drink while urinating experiment and what I learnt in the poetry workshop my thoughts have taken me to possibly creating a sculpture…
Pop Art and the Socialist ‘Thing’: Dušan Otašević in the 1960s
TATE PAPERS https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/24/pop-art-and-the-socialist-thing-dusan-otasevic-in-the-1960s BRANISLAV DIMITRIJEVIĆ The early work of Dušan Otašević constitutes a rare example of the influence of Anglo-American pop on an eastern European artist working under the conditions of 1960s socialism. In this paper Branislav Dimitrijević argues that Otašević did not uncritically appropriate stylistic models imported from the West, but explored the specific…
A Piece Of Art That Is Pissing Since Over 500 Years!
By, Meek Kapoor Nov 21, 2020 There is a sculpture in Belgium, more than five centuries old, that proudly stands as one of the most stolen pieces of art in the world. The little boy peeing into a basin is apparently a prized possession for the locals and a great influence on their culture. Let’s…
Playing with words
23rd October 2021 Is this a start of poem, maybe, maybe not. After attending the poetry workshop yesterday and what I have already experienced through earlier experiments I played with some words that I had felt during my actual thought experiment see my blog Experiment 1, dated 21 Oct at 17:20 From the swallow to…
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