In what ways has Surrealism influenced fashion, and how successful are the results? You will need to include discussion of two examples.
1. What is surrealism?
“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”
Young's Night Thoughts are surrealist from cover to cover. Unfortunately, it is a priest who speaks; a bad priest, to be sure, yet a priest.
Heraclitus is surrealist in dialectic.
Lully is surrealist in definition.
Flamel is surrealist in the night of gold.
Swift is surrealist in malice.
Sade is surrealist in sadism.
Carrier is surrealist in drowning.
Monk Lewis is surrealist in the beauty of evil.
Achim von Arnim is surrealist absolutely; in space and time
Rabbe is surrealist in death.
Baudelaire is surrealist in morals.
Rimbaud is surrealist in life and elsewhere.
Hervey Saint-Denys is surrealist in the directed dream.
Carroll is surrealist in nonsense.
Huysmans is surrealist in pessimism.
Seurat is surrealist in design.
Picasso is surrealist in cubism.
Vaché is surrealist in me.
Roussel is surrealist in anecdote
(André Breton, 1934, A lecture given in Brussels on 1st June 1934 at a public meeting organised by the Belgian Surrealists, http://home.wlv.ac.uk)
“Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected association, in the omnipotence of dream, in the disinterested play of thought.”
-Andre Breton
In the 1920s, the world was going through one of its ‘all time low’ phases. There was war, or worse, the fear of war, the artists who had been scattered as the result, (who were earlier based in Paris of other cities) became of the mindset that it was the overly rational thinking, the so called ‘high rationale’ of human mind that had brought upon this war.
This resulted in an inspired thought that led to a revolution. Thus the idea to follow the unconscious mind arrived, no matter how bizarre its ideas may seem.
‘The word Surrealism was invented in 1917 by Guillaume Apollinaire, and adopted by fellow French poet, André Breton, in 1924 to describe a radical
“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”
Young's Night Thoughts are surrealist from cover to cover. Unfortunately, it is a priest who speaks; a bad priest, to be sure, yet a priest.
Heraclitus is surrealist in dialectic.
Lully is surrealist in definition.
Flamel is surrealist in the night of gold.
Swift is surrealist in malice.
Sade is surrealist in sadism.
Carrier is surrealist in drowning.
Monk Lewis is surrealist in the beauty of evil.
Achim von Arnim is surrealist absolutely; in space and time
Rabbe is surrealist in death.
Baudelaire is surrealist in morals.
Rimbaud is surrealist in life and elsewhere.
Hervey Saint-Denys is surrealist in the directed dream.
Carroll is surrealist in nonsense.
Huysmans is surrealist in pessimism.
Seurat is surrealist in design.
Picasso is surrealist in cubism.
Vaché is surrealist in me.
Roussel is surrealist in anecdote
(André Breton, 1934, A lecture given in Brussels on 1st June 1934 at a public meeting organised by the Belgian Surrealists, http://home.wlv.ac.uk)
“Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected association, in the omnipotence of dream, in the disinterested play of thought.”
-Andre Breton
In the 1920s, the world was going through one of its ‘all time low’ phases. There was war, or worse, the fear of war, the artists who had been scattered as the result, (who were earlier based in Paris of other cities) became of the mindset that it was the overly rational thinking, the so called ‘high rationale’ of human mind that had brought upon this war.
This resulted in an inspired thought that led to a revolution. Thus the idea to follow the unconscious mind arrived, no matter how bizarre its ideas may seem.
‘The word Surrealism was invented in 1917 by Guillaume Apollinaire, and adopted by fellow French poet, André Breton, in 1924 to describe a radical