Series of screen shots taken from the short film Destino (2003) by Salvador Dalí (surrealist) and Walt Disney (animator).
Merz by Kurt Schwitters (dadaist)
Photo's are not authors own
I have looked into some of the artists that participated in the Surreal and Dada art movements. This stage of my research has opened a lot of doors into how I can represent the themes I am working with, which are dream state, lucidity and escapism. Dalí has worked a lot with the manifest content of his dreams, along side other surrealists like Vladimir Kush and Georgio De Chirico. Destino, which is fundamentally a montage of Dalí's previous paintings, creates a strong example of how a dream may play out in ones mind, therefore I took substantial amounts of inspiration from it. Moving on from this research I won't to produce a series of observational/life drawings that I will then manipulate in a slightly surrealist/dadaist manner. Dadaism was quite a hard art movement to grasp, but I suppose that is the whole point. This kind of, nonsensical, "do whatever you like" approach that seems to be the foundations of the movement correlates very well with the lucid state of dreaming, where the dreamer is conscious of the fact that they are still asleep and, through mental discipline, can proceed to change their dream environment and situation.
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