Trends and Movements

 

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            Trends and Movements

Hello! Here I am going to write down another blog on surrealism , Dadaism and Expressionism . The task is given by Yesha Ma’am , department of English, MK ,Bhavnagar University. This blog is a part of our thinking activity.

1. Surrealism : 

                      

Introduction

Surrealism or(superrealism)was launched as an artistic movement in France by Andre Breton "Manifesto of surrealism"(1924).This movement was a successor to the brief movement known as Dadaism which emerged in 1916 out of disgust with the brutality and destructiveness of the First world war. The task of movement was to engender a negative art and literature that would destroy the false values of modern middle class society including it's rationality , art and literature. Among the exponents of Dadaism were artist and poets such as Tristam Tzara, Marcel Duchamp ,Man Ray ,and Max Ernest.

It's Basic Aim

     The expressed aim of surrealism was a reaction against all restaurants on free creative and all control over the artistic process by forethought and international To ensure the unhampered operation of the deep mind which they regarded as the only source of valid knowledge and art,they turned to automatic writing . 

   Surrealism was a revolutionary movement in painting ,sculpture , and the other arts, as well as literature. It often worked in collaboration with other forces such as social and political revolutionary movements.

2. Dadaism:     

  

Dada or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centres in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire. The Dada exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. presents some 400 paintings, sculptures, photographs, collages, prints, and film and sound recordings by more than 40 artists. 

3. Expressionism: 

                           

In this picture , I have to express the power of Mind and Brain. 

   The Several schools of writers and painters whose theories echo the doctirine ‘Man is the measure of all things’. Here I try to give expression to his feelings and emotions , ideas and thoughts in his own way. My duty is to express what I feel and find. 

      Self-expressionism is a theory that completely ignores the readers’ point of view. 

According to Benedetto Croce “ There are two kinds of reality: one, which exists outside the mind , and another within the mind. 

  Thank You…. . 

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