ART AND ITS VARIOUS

FORMS
RAHUL V. SHEKAR
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SURREALISM
SURREALISM IS THE ART OF DEPICTING UNNERVING,
ILLOGICAL SCENES AND DEVELOPED TECHNIQUES TO
ALLOW THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND TO EXPRESS ITSELF.
ITS AIM WAS, ACCORDING TO LEADER ANDRÉ BRETON, TO
"RESOLVE THE PREVIOUSLY CONTRADICTORY
CONDITIONS OF DREAM AND REALITY INTO AN
ABSOLUTE REALITY, A SUPER-REALITY", OR SURREALITY.
ANDRÉ BRETON
CO-FOUNDER, LEADER OF SURREALISM

André Breton is a French poet and writer.

His writing includes Surrealistic Manifesto in

which he de ines surrealism as “pure psychic
automatism”.

ANDRÉ BRETON IN 1924

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THE LOVERS
RENÉ MAGRITTE

Les Amants I, also known as The Lovers, is a

painting by the artist Rene Magritte.

It depicts two igures that have their faces

shrouded by white cloth.

RENÉ MAGRITTE - 1928

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SALVADOR DALI

RENÉ MAGRITTE SALVADOR DALI

SURREALISTIC MOVIES DEPICT AN
ALMOST CHAOTIC MIND, WITH
STORIES THAT MAKE US QUESTION
THE SANITY OF THE WORLD WE
LIVE IN.
ABSTRACT ART
ABSTRACT ART USES VISUAL LANGUAGE OF SHAPE, FORM,
COLOR AND LINE TO CREATE A COMPOSITION WHICH MAY
EXIST WITH A DEGREE OF INDEPENDENCE FROM VISUAL
REFERENCES IN THE WORLD.
ARTWORK WHICH TAKES LIBERTIES, E.G. ALTERING COLOUR OR
FORM IN WAYS THAT ARE CONSPICUOUS, CAN BE SAID TO BE
PARTIALLY ABSTRACT. TOTAL ABSTRACTION BEARS NO
TRACE OF ANY REFERENCE TO ANYTHING RECOGNISABLE.
BACK SQUARE
KAZIMIR MALEVICH

Black Square is an iconic painting by Kazimir Malevich. The irst

version was done in 1915.

Malevich had made some remarks about his painting:

• "It is from zero, in zero, that the true movement of being

begins."

• "I transformed myself in the zero of form and emerged

from nothing to creation, that is, to Suprematism, to the
new realism in painting – to non-objective creation."

• "[Black Square is meant to evoke] the experience of pure

non-objectivity in the white emptiness of a liberated
nothing."

KAZIMIR MALEVICH - 1915

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COMPOSITION WITH
RED, BLUE, AND YELLOW
PIET MONDRIAN

He is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th-century

abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from igurative
painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a
point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple
geometric elements.

Mondrian's art was highly utopian and was concerned with a

search for universal values and aesthetics. He proclaimed in
1914: "Art is higher than reality and has no direct relation to
reality. To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little
use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the
spiritual. We ind ourselves in the presence of an abstract art.
Art should be above reality, otherwise it would have no value
for man."

PIET MONDRIAN - 1930

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JOAN MIRÓ

MARK ROTHKO MARK ROTHKO

JACKSON POLLOCK
MATERIALISTIC ART
MATERIALISTIC ART IS ART THAT HAS BEEN CREATED FROM REAL
WORLD OBJECTS LIKE A STAPLER OR NEWS PAPER CUTOUTS…
JUST AS ART FORMS A NEXUS BETWEEN IMAGINATION AND
REALITY, THE CURRENT NOTION ABOUT MATERIALITY IN ART IS
THAT MATERIALITY IS HOW ART'S MATERIAL QUALITIES ARE
SENSED, INTERPRETED AND UNDERSTOOD.
PERFORMANCE MAKING ART
PERFORMANCE ART IS AN ARTWORK OR ART EXHIBITION CREATED
THROUGH ACTIONS EXECUTED BY THE ARTIST OR OTHER
PARTICIPANTS. IT MAY BE WITNESSED LIVE OR THROUGH
DOCUMENTATION, SPONTANEOUSLY DEVELOPED OR WRITTEN,
AND IS TRADITIONALLY PRESENTED TO A PUBLIC IN A FINE ART
CONTEXT IN AN INTERDISCIPLINARY MODE.
THE TERM "PERFORMANCE ART" AND "PERFORMANCE" BECAME
WIDELY USED IN THE 1970S, EVEN THOUGH THE HISTORY OF
PERFORMANCE IN VISUAL ARTS DATES BACK TO FUTURIST
PRODUCTIONS AND CABARETS FROM THE 1910S.
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MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ
THE GRANDMOTHER OF PERFORMANCE ART

The premise was deceptively simple. Abramović announced that she would
stood absolutely still for the next 6 hours. In front of her, a table was covered
with objects and instructions for how they could be used.

When the performance irst began, people were tentative and shy, and it seemed
as though no one might interact with her at all. Which makes sense, right? She
might have labeled herself as an object, but in reality, she was still a person.
Eventually people got interesting and involved and got the hang of things.
Marina was their object, so they moved her position. They poured water on her.
They wrapped her up in string.

Before long, however, things took a dark and disturbing turn. Someone touched
her intimately. One man cut her neck with the razor blade and drank some of her
blood. By the third hour her clothes had been cut from her body. She was groped
again and sexually assaulted by more than one person. They carried her through
the room half-naked, placed her on a table, and stabbed a knife into the wood
between her legs.

MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ - 1974

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SPEAKING ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE LATER, ABRAMOVIĆ
REMARKED, “THIS WORK REVEALS SOMETHING TERRIBLE
ABOUT HUMANITY. IT SHOWS HOW FAST A PERSON CAN HURT
YOU UNDER FAVOURABLE CIRCUMSTANCES. IT SHOWS HOW
EASY IT IS TO DEHUMANISE A PERSON WHO DOES NOT FIGHT,
WHO DOES NOT DEFEND HIMSELF. IT SHOWS THAT IF HE
PROVIDES THE STAGE, THE MAJORITY OF ‘NORMAL’ PEOPLE,
APPARENTLY CAN BECOME TRULY VIOLENT.”
 “We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry
because we are members of the human race. And the human race is illed with
passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and
necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay
alive for.”
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ART IS THE QUESTIONING OF LIFE, THE PORTRAYAL
OF LIFE AND OF EMOTIONS.
ART ALLOWS THE ARTIST TO DEPICT THINGS THAT
CANNOT BE EXPLAINED WITH MERE WORDS.
ART IS BEYOND THE THINGS OF LIFE.