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Kream Of Da Krop

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Aug 14, 1998, 3:00:00 AM8/14/98
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I need help. I need to know what art movements inspired surrealism to
become surrealism.

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Brandon J. Freels

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Aug 15, 1998, 3:00:00 AM8/15/98
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Read Breton's "Conversations"
or Nadeau's "History of Surrealism"
or any modern art history textbook
or ...

go to the library

---Brandon Freels

Kream Of Da Krop wrote in message <6r1um1$lr6$1...@heliodor.xara.net>...

craig cooper

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Aug 15, 1998, 3:00:00 AM8/15/98
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It wasn't so much any other art movements that inspired the
surrealists...
The surrealists were born from the Dada Movement...
Same time and Same faces...
It was much more the literary world that inspired the great movement...
Lautremont's Maldoror and Huysmans Against Nature to name but 2...
AND Apollinaire plus Alfred Jarry plus Jacques Vache...
Bosch is in there on the list as is Gustave Moreau...
They more or less inspired themselves...

If you need all this information plus more the write with the questions
that need asking...
Bon Voyage

Craig Cooper...

In article <6r1um1$lr6$1...@heliodor.xara.net>, Kream Of Da Krop
<sensual...@hotmail.com> writes


>I need help. I need to know what art movements inspired surrealism to
>become surrealism.
>
>

--
craig cooper

Brandon J. Freels

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Aug 16, 1998, 3:00:00 AM8/16/98
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Don't forget Rimbaud
Odilon Redon
The Symbolists (literature and art)
The Gothic Novel (Radcliffe, Walpole, etc.)
Dada is an obvious one since its nearly the same characters (only older)
Alchemy
Even a few of the Romantics (none of the famous ones)
Of course Freud, Hegel, Trotsky, etc.

This list is too enormous to remember off the top of my head

Cooper is abosolutely correct to say that they more or less inspired
themselves!
Isn't that what Surrealism is about, the domain of man clashing with the
domain of the world? A type of self study?

---Brandon Freels

craig cooper

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Aug 16, 1998, 3:00:00 AM8/16/98
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Nice One...
If any one out there wishes to visit the most valuable
biggest studio of an active Surrealist painter of today the present day
then please call on this UK phone number to speak and arrange with the
Master of the Imagination, the one and only CRAIG COOPER...

01947 821870... If you do Surrealism then you will do this geezer...

--
craig cooper

Ubujean-ja...@wanadoo.fr

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Aug 22, 1998, 3:00:00 AM8/22/98
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On Sun, 16 Aug 1998 19:18:48 +0200, craig cooper
<cr...@easel.demon.co.uk> wrote:


>If any one out there wishes to visit the most valuable
>biggest studio of an active Surrealist painter of today the present day
>then please call on this UK phone number to speak and arrange with the
>Master of the Imagination, the one and only CRAIG COOPER...
>

Or have a look to

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/oxana/oxana

(specially the miscellaneous area)

a young ukrainan painter.

.

Allons Polonais, allez-y ą tour de bras, il a bon
dos, le misérable.

Enlevez UBU pour repondre

SamLev

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Aug 28, 1998, 3:00:00 AM8/28/98
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Look up Andre Breton. He was the leader of the surrealist movement in France.
He was a poet, but recruited painters and poets alike. To be a surrealist you
were required to read and agree with Andre's Surrealist Manifesto (which I
haven't read) which agreed with and encouraged communism. You also had to
agree with the theories of Freud. Much of the surrealist art is an exploration
into the subconscious thought generated by the mind. It was a psychological
exploration of the subconscious fueled by Freudian theories (although, I think
that Freud thought them to be a little off the mark, but don't quote me on
that). It is possible that surrealism may have been fueled by the dadaist
movement in art as well. If you haven't been here already, go to:

http://pharmdec.wustl.edu/juju/surr/surrealism.html

for the look of the current, non-communist state of surrealism

Samantha Levin
"...and the harp snapped and broke and never sang more..."

Brandon J. Freels

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Aug 29, 1998, 3:00:00 AM8/29/98
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I agree with barrett.

To understand anything about surrealism you much read all the Manifestos.
I also think Breton's Nadja, Communicating Vessels, and Mad Love are must
reads also.

---Brandon Freels


Brandon J. Freels

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Sep 12, 1998, 3:00:00 AM9/12/98
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If that is so then why did A.B. put together his collection of interviews
"about" S. (see his book Conversations)?

The idea that S. is against answer questions about itself is "absurd."
Questions must be asked to reach the complete emancipation of the mind, and
man, which is the only purpose of S.

---Brandon Freels

MMM wrote in message <35F9E9...@mmedia.is>...

>it is not in the interest of S. nor A.B.
>to answer any questions conserning S.

Brandon J. Freels

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Sep 12, 1998, 3:00:00 AM9/12/98
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And wasn't A.B.'s most important essay "What is Surrealism?" a question
concerning S. written by A.B.

I think I've proved my point.

---BJF

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