Assignment #7

Cubism and Surrealism

Cubism was a style of modern art that comes to life through geometric shapes and hard lines.
The artists responsible for this kind of art were Pablo Picasso and Georges Braques. Cubism 
 was the first style of abstract art that came out at the beginning of the 20th century. 
 The cubism painters had the idea of breaking the traditions of Western art with the
  aim of developing a new form of art in the modern age. A typical Cubist painting is a
 representation of real people, places or objects, but not from a fixed viewpoint. Cubist artwork
 can be seen from different angles, planes, shapes and colors. The idea of space is reconfigured
 on the front, back and sides of the work and these items can be exchanged in the design of the work.

Les Demoiselles is an artwork of the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso painted in 1907, oil on canvas
 and measures are 243.9 x 233.7 cm.

  This artwork shows the key reference to discuss cubism, in which the Spanish artist is the
 best example. This was a new starting point where Picasso eliminates all sublime tradition, 
breaking with Realism, using the canons of spatial depth and hitherto existing perfect female body, 
reduced all the work to a set of angular planes or spatial perspective bottomless, in which 
the forms are marked by light-dark lines.The fulcrum of the whole work is the naked women, to
 demonstrate the fact that major changes in mentality are played on the way to represent the human
 figure.

 Surrealism is a literary and artistic movement that emerged in France from Dadaism, in the early
 1920s. Surrealism took some techniques from Dada art of photography and cinematography techniques 
and the manufacture of objects. Also, surrealism extended the principle of collage. Surrealism penetrated 
the activity of many European and American artists at different times. In 1938 the international surrealist 
exhibition held in Paris marked the apogee of this movement. Surrealism can make sense by itself in
 the vanguard movement. The imaginative capacity and the suggestion of his mental constructions meant
 undoubtedly a revolution in the art after World War One.

Surrealist painters try to free the imagination accessing the subconscious depths of the human
 being which surfaced through dreams. The purpose of the Surrealists was not making art, but to 
explore possibilities.

Its main theme was the world of dreams. Surrealist artists used the operator, which is to draw 
or write without apparent logic. He disoriented his audience by employing foreign objects, arising freely 
subconscious and employed other techniques given as photomontage, the found object, waste materials, etc. 
In particular, Max Ernst was a provacteur; a shocking and innovative artist who probed the unconcious mind as
 fuel for dreamy imagery that rebelled against social rules.
One of the basis themes in his work was that the world was irrational, which can be clearly seen here. Another
key aspect in his work is non-representational works without clear narratives and attempted to paint freely from
his inner psyche. He unleashed primal emotions and uncovered personal traumas, which became a subject in
his work.

Max Ernst is the artist Woman, Old Man, and Flower. This artwork was painted in 1924 with Oil on canvas and the measure is 97 cm x 130 cm.

In this art, to express the person full of rage after a war looking for ways to get all the rage, we can see this in the way that the hands are up trying to grasp the 

freedom he needed.