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Odd Looking Realistic painting is not necessarily surrealist
Posted by Marisol D. on March 08, 02 :
How do you describe your painting? I searched for surrealism, but when you read the description of what is surrealism, I do not recognize your style. There is symboles and stories; it is not dreams. ? .
Pierre:
Thank
you for your excellent question:
There is a difference between
looking at the appearance of a painting and reading it .
As
you pointed justly, surrealism is not a style, it was a subversive
and wonderful art movement that has its place in the art history,
around the ideas of Andre Breton.
I admit that I am seduced by the visual appearance of the surrealist art work, however I am not at all in the historical context.
like
Magritte warned that his pipe was not a pipe, I should affix to
my work the warning label: "this is not surrealist painting"
To illustrate my letter, see various pieces where indeed I
asked myself the question.
short
romance: surrealist or illustrative?
How
the inconscient works
The hearts: series painted according to my own hearts-stories.