Dadaism
After the outbreak of World War I, due to the devastating impact of war on people, a group of artists began to express their resistance to war with their works. Then a school of anti-tradition, anti-art and anti-everything appeared. Duchamp is the most famous student in this school. The above picture is the painting style of this period.
superrealism
The Eternity of Dali Memory
Dali's premonition of civil war
After the First World War, the style of Dadaism gradually fell out of favor. It can also be said that with the evolution of new ideas, another picture-surrealism was formed. Not only fashion has a trend, but also painting has a trend. Surrealism literally means a school of art that is based on reality but transcends it. It advocates expressing people's irrational thinking thoughts, subconscious things. Its appearance was closely related to the publication of Interpretation of Dreams at that time. Interpretation of dreams shows that dreams are the realization of wishes, and people's repressed thoughts will be realized through dreams. This view was also put forward shortly after the publication of Interpretation of Dreams. In fact, science, art, literature and so on are inseparable, and they all influence each other and develop together.
Magritte
(1898- 1967) is a great surrealist painter in Belgium.
The author of the above painting is Margaret. We don't feel any shock when we look at these pictures now. Looking at the small picture, I even think it is a 50-point P picture (of course not), because we have seen too many ps compositions now, but there was no such painting style at that time. Margaret's works reverse people's experience of the real world. The author's form of expression has a lot to do with his growing experience. When Magritte 14 years old, his mother committed suicide by throwing herself into the river. When the police salvaged her body from the river, Magritte stood by and saw that her mother's face was completely covered by her long white dress. This is why Magritte's paintings often have the image of being covered with white gauze. In his works, grotesque, fantasy, horror and an inscrutable mystery coexist.
There are several obvious features in his works: 1, two people who look very close but are far apart psychologically, such as two veiled lovers kissing in the lower right corner, which is used in the scene where Anna and her father are having breakfast. 2, the expression is missing, the head is missing, the person who reads the newspaper, and the person whose face is blocked by the apple. These paintings are completely insensitive to the emotions of the characters. 3, regardless of the existence of reality, such as the combination of different objects, such as the combination of eyes and the sky, people under the sky. 4. Projection, perspective and other expressions will be artistically treated.
For more information about Margaret's works, here is a paper written by Professor Liu Famin entitled "On the Weird Features of Magritte's Paintings", which contains a lot of paintings. After reading it, we can better understand this picture book.
Anthony was deeply influenced by this painter and borrowed many of his expressions. The difference is that when Anthony uses it, he makes the picture more interesting and more in line with the characteristics of the picture book.