Salvador Dali

 

 



 

Salvador Dali is one of my biggest influences towards surrealism and abnormal realism. This is because of my liking for abstract and different art styles which Salvador covers all bases of this.

 

 

 

 

 





Monty Python

 

Monty python was a surreal group of comedians, song writers, artists, directors, etc. It consisted of numerous people which were; John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, Michael Palin.

Monty python was originally created in 1969 up until the years of 1983. They were influenced by people such as; spike Milligan, peter cook, Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller, Peter sellers etc.

Monty python were the group which made fun of what reality really were and making up stupid ideas which made them iconic.

I learnt that everything which is strange to use isn't always surreal. it could be dada.
artists such as bruce lacey believe he will not "grow up" and will always stay young.
Spike milligan was a multi media artist
spike milligan was irish
and bruce lacey was totally insane.

 

 

Spike Milligan

 

Sir Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan KBE (16 April 1918- 27 February 2002) was an soldier, comedian, writer, musician, poet and actor which was famous in his time era. He was the son of an Irish man who was a captain for the Indian forces. His father was called Captain Leo Alphonso Milligan. He was also an actor in a show called The Goon Show.  The Goon Show was a British radio comedy programme which was originally produced in 1951 and finished in 1960. He wrote poems such as; on the ning nang nong, A silly poem, Have A Nice Day, Granny, and the rest of them. A further list is on this link if you wish to view.

http://www.poemhunter.com/spike-milligan/poems/

Deviant Art

Deviant art is a website where you can post your own pictures online for other people to see and you can browse other peoples pictures for if you need inspiration on what type of picture you wish to draw. The target audience is on an average age of around 12+ both male and female.

           

People who are trying to become artists for different style and contemporary art usually occupy it. 

The website layout design is a lime green background with a black font which is easy on the eyes, also the layout of the webpage makes it easier to see the shortcuts and hot bar on top of the page.

Overall there are many strengths and weaknesses. But the strengths are the fact that it’s a nice community, who are helpful and there is plenty of ideas from other people’s drawings to help you start ideas of your own drawings. But the weaknesses of the website it is really buggy and can keep crashing and not loading the pictures properly which is quite annoying but apart from that everything is good about the site.

 Amazon

Amazon is a online shopping website just like other websites like eBay and gum tree etc. Amazon uses search engines on the website taskbar which defines searches for what you want specifically or items you wish to search for similar to the one you searched for. It also has a section called “Items you may also like.” Where they take information on items you have bought previously to find items you may also like. Also a section where it says “other users that bought this item also like.” The target audience can be anything from younger people with parent’s permissions and card/PayPal details.  Or it could be even an adult searching for any item.

This is the Front page of the amazon website where you can see the search bar and some sub-searches such as the “what other customers are looking at right now.” There really isn’t any weaknesses of this website unless you do not know how to use the internet.

Charlie Chaplin

 

Is Charlie Chaplin considered a surreal artist? there is many opinions on the internet about if he is or not, but in this post there is plenty of information which can help you decide if you think he is or not.

The Surrealists Go To The Movies

  

It is impossible to disentangle the influence of Chaplin on French artists, writers, and poets

of his day from their general enthusiasm for American films immediately following the war.

Phillipe Soupault would claim in his seminal 1924 article “Cinéma U.S.A.” that these movies

had “deeply marked all of French poetry” page 4 of 13 number 10
 

 

 

Never one to pass up a practical joke, Tzara nonchalantly inserted the names of The Prince of

Monaco, Georges Clemenceau, and Charlie Chaplin—among many others [Fig. 2]—into this

already illustrious roster.

Upon receiving the poster, Breton couldn’t contain the impossible hope of having Charlot,

the ultimate prankster, join their ranks. He wrote in a letter to Tzara: “This echo of Charlie

Chaplin is a delicious surprise. But of course, it’s not true?”6 But the hoax didn’t stop there.

After Tzara’s arrival in Paris in 1920, he gave word to the newspapers that Chaplin would be

among them for the Dada event at the Salon des Indépendants at the Grand Palais. Not

picking up on the prank, the newspaper Le Journal du Peuple relayed the news that Chaplin

would be publicly converted to Dadism.7 Chaplin never showed up, of course, but the Dadaists

carried on without even bothering to address the elephant in the room with the increasingly

hostile audience.page 3 of 13

 

 

 

 

http://www.cinetecadibologna.it/files/festival/Sotto_le_stelle/2014/100charlot/atti/teichner.pdf


 



There is something been influenced by Charlie chaplin called chaplinism. this is described in the link below.  http://tetsure.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/chaplinism.html