Automaticism/Surrealism

Froyd - late1800 - Phyco-analasys

Metaphysics -

Georgio De Chirico - 1913 - 1916 - 1929

Joan Miro - Automatic drawing
-Controls work afterwards
-Done on huge scale & commonly recreates into 3D sculptures

Surrealist Automatism (Automatic Drawing)

-Free
-Don't think
-Spontaneous
-Unlocks your subconscious

-Children don't have the conscious mind to control their drawings
-Automatism returns to that

Surrealist Manifesto

A manifesto is a statment which is published and made by a party/group of people of an individual stating their intention, motives or views.
It will accept either a previous published opinion or public consensus (which is a group desision making process) or it will promote a new idea and the changed which the party/group or individual believes should be made. 

3D Propaganda

Names to look at:
Naum Gabo
Antonie Pevsner

DADA & Dadaism

Began in Zurich, Sweden in 1916 at the Cabaret Voltaire 
- Escapees from WW1
- Fled to Cabaret
- Art, Poetry, Performances, Music
- Eventually evolved into Dada & the 'Anti-Art' movement
Height of New York Dada was in 1915
Marcel Duchamp - 1913 - 'Readymades'

Dada Collage & Text

- Controlled Mess

- Newspapers, Posters & other 'readymade' works

- The text became part of the composition rather than just information

- A lot of chance involved 

- A lot of Satire involved

Duchamp did something similar where instead of just adding images he defaced images, example: lhooq 

- If lhooq is said fast with a french accent it sounds similar to the slang name for 'She has a hot ass'

- Was shown as a postcard featured below

Exquisite Corpse 

- Fold Paper & each person writes a line or draws a body part (depending on version of game) to make a sentence or animal

Can be done with drawings or words 

Dada rebelling against the bourgeois

Bourgeois - French for middle-class 

Rrose Sélavy

- One of Marcel Duchamp's alter egos

- Aimed to break the ownership of Art being more important than the art itself

Baroness of Dada - Elsa von Fraytag-Loringhoven

- Living work of Art

- Wore her artwork

- Came up with the idea of 'Fountain' by Marcel Duchamp

- Started her work as a model & then started to make artwork out of 'readymades' & wore them around

- Also wrote poems

- She lived and breathed Dada 

Reflective Practise- Life Drawing

1st piece I thought was strong at first, however the more I got into other drawings I felt my first piece was pretty weak. I prefered my final drawings as they were more natural & flowing. I got more flustered and fustrated as I got through the session so my work started to show it with thicker lines & less control.

UCAS

15th January - Main Closing Date - 6pm
Research what & where - cost?
Sandwich degree? - Animation

UCAS Website - Course finder
Use to find Uni in my subject area

Portfolio guidance - Youtube
- Advice from Uni websites
£12 for 1
£20+ for more
Up to 5 Universities - only apply for the ones you definitely want

Personal Statement
47 lines, 4,000 characters incl. spaces
what has it given me?
don't use Couldn't, Shouldn't Wouldn't

Reference - Jon

Notes -
Animation
Illustration
Music & Musical Instruments
Movies & Television
Video Games
Basic knowledge of Adobe Flash
Pretty advanced knowledge of Illustrator & Photoshop

Propaganda posters

Silhouettes

Union Jack

Pencil

Landmarks

Hand

Colours: Blue, Red, Yellow, White, Cream

Day One

1st day back at College & it was a messy one. We got given a roll of wallpaper & pain and told to go crazy. Paint got everywhere. One of the only experiments I likes was dripping green ink on the wallpaper, waiting for it to dry then going around the borders of the in with pen to make them look like either bacteria or planets