CUBISM & SURREALISM

CUBISM
Cubism is not tended to present what the things you have really seen. It has 5 characteristics which the paintings have sharp outlines, monochrome coloring, stronger sense of object and volume, inconsistent shading and geometric elements, that are very unlike impressionism.


Cubists like to use simple geometry to have the combination and rearrangement of body, breast, arms etc. Also, they prefer to display the volume and form by controlling the brightness of few colors. With the help of divergent perspective, the objects seem like closer to viewers and sometimes one art work may include several perspectives to cheat people's eyes. Therefore, some content are artificial and does not make sense. 


Then Picasso developed the negative space which is the room between bodies so that there is no clear boundaries in the painting.

Cubism  is like a language. The sign system may be strange but the flexibility created different transformation and meaning.



SURREALISM

Some said surrealism is another field for people to have their true thought which is without any control and common sense. 
Some said perhaps the fantasy and reality have no clear-cut. The unconscious area of mind makes impossible become possible.


No matter how they define, surrealists change people's way of thinking.
Things can be fragmented without logic. Object become ambiguous that you do not know how to state. Scale has been played thus the paintings let you discover the details that you may miss out before.

There are adequate space for mind and subconscious in surrealism.

IMPRESSIONISM

In the past, the art works are focused on the gradual change of colors in order to display volume. Although it is not true to present outdoor objects, both inside and outside targets are presented by using this technique. Apart from depiction, ancient statues study is another practice at that time.

for example, in the birth of venus, the lightest color indicated the relaxation and sleepy while deepened hair revealed the purity. everything is soft and harmonious without abruptness.

Works will be selected by the organization of Art to display in exhibition or salon if they are adapted to culture and met up academic standards.




However, art is diversified. many artists try to break through a barrier for the sake of developing their ideal which is belonging to their own style. In consequence, more than half of the 500 publication have been rejected by academy. Therefore government held another exhibition -the Salon des Refusé to reveal the rejected works.


Those outside the academy artists have established the company. They became independent and the avant-garde art is experimental and anti-popular thus it provides adequate room for artists to discuss,share and criticize. Impressionists are no longer concerned about studio lights, lines and perspective. Light and colors are the elements because they believed that color is the only demand to human eye（innocent eye）. Hence they like to replace lines with colors and there is no more fixed color of an object since the light changing may shift colors.


Because of misty objects' outline, viewers become the active thinkers to share thoughts in order to interpret the patterns of colored light.


Though impressionists were being criticized that their style is illogical and irregular, it cannot be denied that their unique point of view offer different perception for us to discover the beautiful things which people missed out in daily life. The contents are not limited anymore but we can appreciate the experience of city life in the brushwork.

 
Another breakthrough has been created by impressionists is that art become a performance. Classical painters tend to conceal the brushwork however they are strongly appeared in impressionism works.  Impressionists true to present the effects made during the creative process for the sake of letting viewers to realize it. This influences the art circles that art is not only the medium to express reality but also a way to reveal the world existing in ourselves.

What is Art?

 
Art is not only a product, but also express artists' ideas. This gives the meaning and vitality to it.
Yet, art is an contradictory matter. After audience interpreted, they receive subjective language from objective works. Those who have similar thoughts may be connected together in consequence.


The Cave of Forgotten Dreams is a document which recorded the cave environment of Chauvet in France. A number of drawings are composed by scratched traces on the palisades. Thus, the earliest living context has been represented and posterity may realize the culture. Although the medium is not flat, the drawings are bygone like yesterday on account of crafty technique.


Apart from the skills, art has many forms such as music, paintings, films, architectures etc people always challenge existing mode and build up more different expression. Any materials or things we have discovered in daily life can be an art.