The Art of Jay Gidwitz
I added a Surrealism page to this web site. It has some old work and a new image or two, it’s just a good collection of surrealist images I’ve produced in the past few years.
My sister Lauren updated her web site with a bunch of great new oil paintings after training with Odd Nerdrum.
There’s also [...]
Surrealist nude female figure expressing time and decay
I finally got a decent picture of this model finished.
Most of the pictures I made from this photoshoot received little acclaim. Richard Fishman actually liked this image!
Yay!!
My “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.
Motion Graphics: an unmasking
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 [...]
Symbolism
From Wikipedia
Symbolism was a late nineteenth century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts.
Precursors and origins
Symbolism was largely a reaction against Naturalism and Realism, movements which attempted to capture reality in its particularity. These movements invited a reaction in favor of spirituality, the imagination, and dreams; the path to Symbolism [...]
