Museum of Resistance and Resilience Main MenuPraxis #1: Curation and Annotation (Group Project)details of Praxis #1 assignmentPraxis #1.1 War, Memory, And Identity: Beyond Victims and Voice Museum of Resistance and ResilienceProfessor Marjory Wentworth Honor's Class at College of CharlestonPraxis #2 Media Intervention, Multimedia Essay (Individual Project)Entry 2 in our Museum of Resistance and ResiliencePraxis #3 Manifesto of Future Resistance and ResilienceMedia Intervention/Media PostsFinal Course Reflection - A Letter to the FutureDue November 18Vicki Callahanf68c37bed83f129872c0216fae5c9d063d9e11baLisa Müller-Tredecc71af55f5122020f2b95396300e25feb73b6995
The Surrealism Movement – Megan, Annabelle, Xander, Malia
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12020-09-22T00:50:21-07:00Megan Yeh5865a2e80cb3d3333a9c29c831bfaceca4fca178Salvador Dali Dream Sequence from Spellbound (1945)9plain2020-09-22T00:59:05-07:00Megan Yeh5865a2e80cb3d3333a9c29c831bfaceca4fca178
12020-09-21T17:09:22-07:00Annabelle Olsonc8da196774d7fabf4dcfa13bc8813ca0325fc71eUn Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog) (1929)8The surrealist movement surfaced shortly after the Dadaist movement in 1924. The short film Un Chien Andalou by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí aired in 1929 and became one of the most famous films in the surrealist movement. The film’s random imagery and lack of storyline work to protest rational thought in art and encourage viewers to question the purpose of art. In the Surrealist Manifesto by André Breton, the recognized leader of the surrealist movement, Brenton defines surrealism as: “a pure state of mind that allows someone to express thoughts freely without the encumbrance of rational thought and societal rules”. Buñuel and Dalí try to showcase this state of mind in their film. It is said that a lot of the film's bizarre content comes from discussions between Buñuel and Dalí about their dreams. The surrealist movement focuses heavily on expressing dreams because this is where the mind is free from convention, and where our most basic, untainted instincts are stored. Buñuel and Dalí wanted to present the images that came from their "unconscious minds" on screen. The meaning of the film is that it means absolutely nothing. It is not a piece that is meant to be deeply scrutinized or analyzed. Instead, it is about what the random images mean to a viewer and what a viewer feels when seeing them. Buñuel and Dalí put together objects that don't usually go together (the ants in the hand, the woman's armpit, the sea urchin, and the severed hand) to stimulate the unconscious mind. The images that came from the directors' unconscious minds for a specific reason might provoke something entirely different in a viewer’s unconscious mind. But that’s the point. Surrealists argued that this kind of disjunction and randomness prevents viewers from being influenced by the outside world and provokes genuine, original thought. Buñuel and Dalí fade each image into the next to make viewers question what's real and what isn't, literally blurring the lines of reality and convention. The lack of storyline in the film gives the viewer a lack of conscious control, another of Buñuel and Dalí’s attempts to stimulate the unconscious mind in the film.plain2020-09-22T17:59:19-07:00Annabelle Olsonc8da196774d7fabf4dcfa13bc8813ca0325fc71e
12020-09-22T00:00:15-07:00Megan Yeh5865a2e80cb3d3333a9c29c831bfaceca4fca178Mama, Papa is Wounded!2plain2020-09-22T00:25:28-07:00Megan Yeh5865a2e80cb3d3333a9c29c831bfaceca4fca178
12020-09-22T15:31:57-07:00Annabelle Olsonc8da196774d7fabf4dcfa13bc8813ca0325fc71eThis is Not a Pipe4Painting by René Magritte, surrealist artist and thinkerplain2020-09-22T18:15:23-07:00Annabelle Olsonc8da196774d7fabf4dcfa13bc8813ca0325fc71e