The Online Art Portfolio of Jay Gidwitz
Art EducationMy “Dada and Surrealism” professor made the distinction between Surrealists and surrealists. According to him, the people who were deemed to be in the surrealist movement at any given time (by Andre Breton) were surrealists, and the people who weren’t in the movement weren’t surrealists, even if their work was surreal.
I like the professor, but [...]
Two more pieces are going up in a show at the Blue Room at Brown University.
“Dark River” and “Dream Logic” are going to be in it.
Below: “Dream Logic”
Below: “Dark River”
Big thanks to Caroline Washington.
Ann Kidder’s “Unpack This!” art show was a wild success! Metropolis played great music, I’m currently working on my second collaboration with David Harrington, who is in Metropolis.
“Abstract Surrealism,” and “First Lake” were in the show.
Above: “First Lake”
Above: “Abstract Surrealism”
REWIND: Fall Juried Show opens at 8pm on Thursday October 18th at Brown/RISD Hillel!
“Self-portrait in Manhattan” and “River of Darkness” wil be in it!
You can also currently see my image from last year’s show on the Hillel website.
What is an automatic drawing?
Automatic drawing was invented by Austin Osman Spare in the early 1900’s but the surrealists received the credit for it, according to most mainstream art historians.
Artists create automatic drawings by unconsciously drawing: they are not trying to do anything in particular; they watch the pencil in their hand moving on the [...]
Sight size is a method by which artists aiming to draw a realist drawing from life can accomplish that while training their eye to better see what’s in nature. The method is taught in the atelier system of art schools as “training wheels” for artists..
We used the sight size method at [...]
Dali uses a number of techniques frequently throughout On modern art, to achieve his surrealistic style and tone. Some of these are (1) surrealist logic, (2) metaphor, and (3) paradox and reversal.
In his surrealist logic, his reasoning does not logically lead from one point to another, it just leaps from premise to assertion, or from [...]
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