Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Surrealist Sculpture and Surrealist Photography

I think that both sculpture and photography are great mediums for Surrealism. It's quite simple: with sculpture, you can mold or shape any figure you want as you want it (it doesn't even have to be a real figure); there's no limit for your imagination. Similarly, with photography, the artist can decide what is he or she going to portray and how he or she is going to do it (angles, exposure, zoom, focus, effects), and even when they have their original photographs, they can also make compositions and impressive editions to them. Surrealist sculpture and photography somehow provide the same experience as Surrealist painting, and the results are great as well!
Some sculptures may be pushing to abstraction, but, in general, the Surrealist sculptures clearly refer to objects that you can recognize easily from real life but that still don't make any sense.




We can recognize a sort of backbone here!

There's a human figure there, for sure, but it is kind of dreamy
A human grass hoper?




In Surrealist photography I just loved the use of distortion mirrors and the assemble of objects and images that artists used. Of course, they were portraying objects and people that actually exists but that somehow seem unreal in the photograph... really magical!


I loved this 'nude' compostion!




1 comment:

  1. That's another reason why Surrealism has become a permanent part of the aesthetic landscape - you can "do" it in any medium.

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