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Surrealism 1924 Figure 1: Catalin, Precup of a woman with a boarded up face and poppy flowers, Unknown year, Drawing.  https://za.pinterest.com/pin/337910778261222320/   The founder of the surrealist movement was a man named Andre Breton in 1924. Andre Breton was a poet and founder of the surrealist movement. He issued the first Surrealist manifesto in Paris 1924.  (Steyn, 2017) Breton insisted that art and life could be renewed by connecting with the areas of the forbidden mind. He believed that surrealism is where chance, desire, memory and coincidence would meet. The surrealistic manifesto included imaginative literature and poetry rather than the visual arts. Surrealism had an appeal for the total liberation of art from all restraints.  Influenced by the Dada movement surrealism often fantasised about the irrational and the inappropriate.  (Steyn, 2017) Same as Dada it questioned reality and logic reason. Surrealism was more positive in spirit th

Dada What is art? Art is when viewers do not get the same interpretation of the same artwork. Dada began in Zurich, Switzerland during the World War 1. It involved visual artists, literature, poetry, art manifesto, art theory, theatre and graphic design. Dada artists concentrated on their anti-war politics through the rejection of everything. From rejecting everything Dada soon was known as an anti-art movement. It rose because of the mood of disillusionment that was caused by WW1. Artists reacted to the mood of disillusionment caused by WW1 as an irony, cynicism and the rejection of moral principle. The sense of disillusionment, the fat of challenging ones believe structure is what made the Dada movement. Dada was so weird to the point where it questioned its surrounding. -Dada was mainly literary because many members were poets and writers.   -The real meaning of Dada meant Hobby Horse. -It rejected rational thinking.  Dada ignored aesthetics, it was ma

1905-1920 Expressionism was a German art movement. An art movement that was inspired by the symbolists of the late 19th-century art. Expressionism is an art movement that made artists become more concerned with expressing their inner emotions rather than their external reality. There is a difference between expressionism and expression. Expressionism is conveying what the artist feels, onto something that can be seen, usually conveying these feelings on a canvas. The expression is the action of making known of one's thoughts and feelings. These terms reflect on the Expressionism movement, which defines it and makes it a unique movement. The expressionism movement artists used exaggerated colours, aggressive brush strokes, exaggerated distortion of the way paint was used. How these artists painted, they expressed themselves in each artwork. Genesis  The difference between impression and expression: Impression- the artist's options are formed without conscio