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Surrealism
The world’s favorite mustache. (poor Velazquez, his mustache is way bigger than yours.) And the world’s most famous surrealist, Salvador Dali.
SURREALISM, noun, masc., Pure psychic automatism by which it is intended to express, either verbally or in writing, the true function of thought. Thought dictated in the absence of all control exerted by reason, and outside all aesthetic or moral preoccupations.
Salvador Dali, Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate One Second Before Waking Up, 1944 In the arousal of sleep a woman lays open to attack horizontally across the plane. Hovering above her open body is an arch of predators. Despite their curling rage as they leap for the attack, they are formed in a graceful arch, quite more peaceful than a direct, angular diagonal. This arch contradicts their motive, ensuring the dream state. An elephant upon stick legs passes blindly behind the violent scene of attack. Seemingly determined and detached from the action. The sky is blushing with the morning, another sign against the violence. It seems as soon as the prick touches the ivory nude, reality will blow the smoke away from the surreal scene.
René Magritte, The Key of Dreams, 1930 André Masson. Automatic Drawing. (1924)
Duchamp, Nude Descending Staircase, No. 2, 1912, “Nudes do not descend staircases.” Nude Descending a Staircase
Toe upon toe, a snowing flesh,
A gold of lemon, root and rind,
She sifts in sunlight down the stairs
With nothing on. Nor on her mind.
We spy beneath the banister
A constant thresh of thigh on thigh—
Her lips imprint the swinging air
That parts to let her parts go by.
One woman waterfall, she wears
Her slow descent like a long cape
And pausing, on the final stair,
Collects her motions into shape.
X.J. Kennedy
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