Surrealism and conceptual art

 Having understood more about the concept of surrealism, not only have I learned more about this type of art, it also made me realize how surrealists have inspired different type of art as well.

  Surrealism is known as the absence of control of thought by morale or common sense or is to the true functioning of thought. To explain it simply, the art is surreal and does not occur in real life.  They can play with scale or to transform object to create imaginary reality. Like a big banana that occupy the whole room or a flying spoon. I found this art type is the most creative of all the art type as artists can really imagine the impossible and to present them in their work and sometimes such imagination may mean something and may lead us to understand the artists' true self. One of the fascinating things I found about surrealism after learning it in lesson is that, I find it has inspired many stories,films or cartoons. The element of putting the impossible into possible just works like fantasy text and arts. For example, the surrealism artwork I found online below are of the similar concepts of some fantasy films

 (surrealism)

 The exaggeration of the scale of the teapot and they are like trees are similar to the concept of the scene from the movie Dorothy of Oz which they use candy canes to build as trees

 (Dorothy of oz )

or in the story of  Dr.Seuss where the trufflar trees are all built by imagination : (Dr.Seuss)

Also , like the surrealist work below, a castle is hold by a hand in the sky, I find it similar to the concept of a Japanese carton Howl's moving castle

(Surealism)        V.S  (Howl's moving castle)

Apart from surrealism, I also learned some ideas about conceptual art. It emphasizes the intention of the artists. What surprised me about this type of artwork is that it doesn't have to have a medium, sometimes the "artwork" created in your mind can also be an conceptual art or even as shown in class the video of burning the artwork, the whole process is categorized as conceptual art because it is the intention that matters but not the final product.