Names and Pictures of the Artists

Pierre Roy


   
Joan Miro


Man Ray


Andre Masson


Max Ernst



Salvador Dali

Compare And Contrast (Still life with old shoe by Joan Miro and The Persistence Of Memory by Salvador Dali)

         

The one on the left is Still Life With Old Shoe by Joan Miro and the one on the right is The Persistence Of Memory by Salvador Dali. Joan Miro uses a variety of colours and his painting really brings out the meaning of surrealism. Though, I am not trying to say that there isn't any surrealistic idea in The Persistence Of Memory painting, the way the clocks in the picture are melting is also surrealistic to some extent. But it does make sense that some objects will melt if kept under the sun for a long time due to the intense heat. So in that way, its not surrealistic.
Done By : Amina Afreen Mohamed Masood (5) 1M

Battle of the Fishes Formal Analysis

"The Battle of Fishes"

As the name of the art piece suggests, this painting illustrates fighting fishes. It was done by Andre Masson, a French surrealist.  Mediums used include sand, gesso, oil and charcoal on the canvas.The painting suggests a savage battle between the two sharp-teethed fish. The art piece was created in the year 1926. It features intricate brush strokes and well-thought textures as well as many lines. The painting also shows streaks of red which represent the bleeding fish. From this, I feel as though the painting was related to his experience fighting in the World War One. It is possible that he used his personal experience to relate to this painting as well as express the trauma and pain he felt during the war period.

//Samantha Toh// 

Part D Comparison

Part d) Compare and Contrast

My artist is Andre Masson and I will be comparing his work to ManRay's

The first difference between the two artists' works is their color scheme. Andre Masson's works consist of a larger variety and range of colors, mostly warm colors like red, orange and yellow. On the other hand, ManRay's works are in black and white. It is seen that Andre Masson's works consist of a diverse set of colors whereas ManRay's colors are more or less standardized.

Secondly, Andre Masson's works are very complex and have many complex components to it. One painting alone can consist of various distorted forms. However, ManRay's works are relatively simple to the eye, only consisting usually a single woman or a portion of the woman done in a dream-like manner.

Last of, the subject of the painting. ManRay's work illustrate human beings while Andre Masson's have many different subjects. Some of them involve greatly distorted people as well as some animals and many complicated lines and forms.

//Samantha//

Compare and contrast


Name of artwork: The Rope Dancer Accompanies Herself with Her Shadows


- Artwork consists of mainly shapes

- Is 2-dimensional

- No use of shades

- Colours used are rather dull

- Lines used are neat

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Name of artwork: The Table (Still Life with Rabbit)

- Artwork cosists of mainly tangible items (e.g Table , Rabbit)

- Is 3- dimensional

- Use of different shades

- Colours used are bright and attractive

- Lines are not so neat and are rather blurry

- Colours used in painting contrast each other greatly, giving it a very stunning effect



Done by Tang Delflyne (30) 1M

Formal Analysis


Name of painting: The Rope Dancer Accompanies Herself With Her Shadows




This painting is executed entirely in oil paint and it is a 2- Dimensional piece of work. It is a form of artwork which focuses on shapes. These shapes are the dancer's shadows when she does different acrobatic movements and they are distorted. In the painting, smooth and clean brush strokes are used. The lines are neat andeach shape has its own colour, and there is no use of different tones.The colours used are rather dull and dark and the shapes overlap each other. Based on the type of brush stroke and the colours used, I feel rather calm and not agitated at all. This artist shows movement beacuse of the different shapes and how they are represented. For example, the yellow shape shows movement as it makes me feel as if the dancer is putting both arms over her head.



Tang Delflyne (30) 1M

Compare and contrast

Compare and contrast

 Done by Julia Zhu(16) 1M

‘ The son of a man’ by Rene Magritte

•  This painting consists of a man in an overcoat and a bowler hat standing in front of a low wall, beyond which is the sea and a cloudy sky.
• The artist uses dull colours to express the mysterious feeling of the painting, as if the man is trying to hide something.

‘The Angel of the Home (or Hearth)’

• This painting consists of a joyous creature dancing happily
• The artist uses bright colours to express the happiness and the excitement of the creature

Formal Analysis

Formal Analysis

Artist: Pierre Roy
Name of painting: A Naturalist's Study



Description:

• I can see a room in the painting which contains many objects. These objects probably belong to a naturalist, as the title suggests. The painting has a smooth texture.
• The artist uses dark colours, which are mostly brown. They show that the room is quite dark and not brightly lit.     
• Fine lines are used and shows clearly the outlines of the objects.  

Analysis:

• I like the painting of the train in the room as it is in the center of the painting and includes bright colours, such as blue and green which makes it quite contrasting from the other dull colours.   

Interpretation:

• I feel peaceful and calm when I see this painting.

Judgement:

• I like this painting as it is very detailed, for example the eggs are painted with great care as they show the spots on the shells, while the spokes on the wheel at the corner have been drawn clearly and we can see each of them. 

Done by: Ng Rui Yun (21)

                 Secondary 1M

Compare and Contrast

Compare and Contrast 

Artist: Pierre Roy
Name of painting: A Naturalist's Study

• This painting shows the interior of a room.
• This painting contains fewer shades and tints of colours.
• This painting contains mostly dark and dull colours just like the other painting.
• This painting includes inanimate objects, such as the painting of the train and the wooden wheel.

Artist: Salvador Dalí
Name of painting: Swans Reflecting Elephants

• This painting shows the outside environment.
• This painting contains many shades and tints of colours.
• This painting contains mostly dark and dull colours just like the other painting.
• This painting contains animals, including the swans and elephants.

Done by: Ng Rui Yun (21)

                 Secondary 1M

Pierre Roy

Done By: Ng Rui Yun (21)
                 Secondary 1M

Introduction to Pierre Roy:

·      French painter, illustrator and designer.

·      Paintings are meticulous and contain mysterious juxtapositions of objects, inspired       by childhood memories.

·      They show surrealism and magic realism.

·      His work is unusual ("mystère onirique") and represents recognisable scenes and objects taken out of natural context, distorted and combined in fantastic and dream-like ways.

Artist Salvador Dali

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　The painting shows soft melting pocket watch on a dry and desert ground and some on the tree branches. He uses dark and dull colors to compliment the dry and isolated area. The artist uses oil paint and smooth textures to paint. The lines in the work are very clear and smooth to be able to see the items. There are irregular and weird shapes. I am drawn by the awkward-looking pocket watches as it looks funny. I feel a depressed mood from the painting as it is very dark and empty. I like the artwork as it is extremely unique and there seems to be great meanings behind it.

  Compare and Contrast:(The persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali)and (The painter and his time by Andre Masson)

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　－Ｓｋｉｌｌｅｄ　ｄｒａｆｔｓｍａｎ

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　－Ｍｏｓｔ　ｆａｍｏｕｓ　ａｒｔｗｏｒｋ　ｗａｓ　＂Ｔｈｅ　ｐｅｒｓｉｓｔｅｎｃｅ　ｏｆ　ｍｅｍｏｒｙ＂

  Ｐａｉｎｔｉｎｇ　Ａｎａｌｙｓｉｓ（Ｔｈｅ　ｐｅｒｓｉｓｔｅｎｃｅ　ｏｆ　ｍｅｍｏｒｙ）

　The painting shows soft melting pocket watch on a dry and desert ground and some on the tree branches. He uses dark and dull colors to compliment the dry and isolated area. The artist uses oil paint and smooth textures to paint. The lines in the work are very clear and smooth to be able to see the items. There are irregular and weird shapes. I am drawn by the awkward-looking pocket watches as it looks funny. I feel a depressed mood from the painting as it is very dark and empty. I like the artwork as it is extremely unique and there seems to be great meanings behind it.

  Compare and Contrast:(The persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali)and (The painter and his time by Andre Masson)

 The drawing "The painter and his time" uses bright colors like yellow constantly.The items in this drawing are more close to each other unlike " The persistence of Memory" where the items are quite far apart. Also, there are less shadows and resulting in the drawing to be more 2D.  

Done By : Grace Lim

Joan Miro

JOAN MIRO was a Catalan Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and famously declared an "assassination of painting" in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.

By: Amina Afreen 
Index No.: 5

Andre Masson

Part b) Artist:
             Andre Masson

• Born on 4 January 1896 
• Died 28 October 1987 at the age of 91 
• He is a French 
• He was brought up in Belgium 
• He began his study of art when he was 11 at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts 
• He fought during the first World War and suffered serious injuries
• He started off with cubism then moved on to surrealism and eventually automatic drawing
• Famous works include 'Battle of Fishes', 'Meditation on an Oak Leaf', 'La Poursuite (The pursuit)' 
• He has a son and a daughter. His son is a composer and his daughter is a painter

//Samantha Toh//

Done by: Julia Zhu

Class: Secondary 1M

Index number: 16

Introduction to Max Ernst

1)He was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist and poet

2)He was born in 2 April 1891- 1 April 1976in Brühl,

Germany, near Cologne

3)He was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and 

Surrealism

4)His works relied on spontaneity (juxtapositions of 

materials and imagery) and subjectivity (inspired by his

 personal experiences), two creative ideals that came to 

define Abstract Expressionism

Introduction to Man Ray

Man Ray- produced major works in a variety of media

- However, he considered himself a painter above all.

- Best known for his photography

- Was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer.

- Noted for his work with photograms

- Does Surrealism, Dada and Modern Art.

- His artwork often appears to be in a continuous state of process


Name: Tang Delflyne (30)

Formal Analysis

"The Angel of the Home (or Hearth) "

This painting shows a huge scary looking creature in a moment of joyous expression as it is grinning and dancing happily. The artist uses bright colours for the creature. Such as red, which represents excitement, and yellow, which represents joy, to show that it is happy. The artist also uses lines as the texture. In the painting, the sky is clearing, which may be indicating that the troubles are disappearing. And from this, I can interpret that the artist is depicting the feeling of triumph and happiness of freeing himself from troubles.
Done By: Julia Zhu

Formal Analysis

Joan Miro – “Still Life With Old Shoe”

Each object relates to a heavy shadow, represented by black free-forms of the sort we associate with Miró’s vocabulary of shapes-forms that came to be emblems of modern art in the plaques ofHans Arp, in the flat metal pieces on Calder mobiles and in modernesque jewelry and coffee tables, and which have their natural counterparts in deeply lobed leaves or kidneys or human feet. It is possible to read the shadow cast by the gin bottle as a weeping silhouette, but it is also possible to read too much into the painting, wanting it to be deep. The shoe is painted in yellows and greens, reds and bright blues-footwear for a one-legged harlequin.

Done By : Amina Afreen 

Index No.: 5

Introduction to surrealism

INTRODUCTION TO SURREALISM

     Surrealism is a cultural, literary and artistic movement that began around the early 1920s and it is known for its visual artworks and writings. It was only in the 1930s where surrealism became more visible to the public at large. The style is depictive, abstract and psychological. It is visually appealing as it is bizarre, not normal and has illogical and unrealistic drawings, hence the name. The qualities of the artistic movement make it unique and stand out. Surrealist works feature the element of surprise and unexpected juxtapositions to express the artist’s idea of concept as well as allow the viewer to be open to a full range of imagination. However, all these crazy and wild ideas are from everyday objects that are expressed in the form of surrealism to allow artist to unconsciously express his thoughts, feelings and ideas via inexplicable or weird art pieces where objects, people and shapes are greatly distorted and strange colors are used. These grasp the artist’s innermost thoughts and feeling in the form of a dream reality. One of the first surrealism artists is Andre Breton. Developing the philosophy of surrealism, they believed that surrealism would advocate the idea that ordinary and depictive expressions are vital and important. Surrealism is a movement that involves many different techniques, a few of which include automatism, frottage and decalcomania.