Need Help, Oh Artsy Ones!

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Alex

I'm superior to you, for you have not accepted the value of my art.

Your art is valuable, indeed. Let's have a look at your first work in this thread.

Or take the amateurs route (AKA "The Street Fair School") to surrealism:

1. Do or make something that makes no sense.
2. Look smug when presenting it.
3. Act superior to those who would question its merits as art.

At first blush, it may seem that the post is simply poking holes in the basic concept of surrealism as "art". On closer inspection, one word stands out - "amateurs". Besides the obvious grammatical issue (which I'm sure is intentional, right, Alex?) it points out that only amateurs would consider this a route to surrealism. (No offense to Disneyphile - this thread itself is a way of claiming amateur status). By stating as such, instead of subverting surrealism it is reaffirming surrealism as a learned art form.

Of course the real art form at hand is the art form of the Message Board Post, which, I daresay, most of us mastered many years ago.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Comedy surrealism abounds these days and I'm a huge fan. GD and I happened across this today. I think it makes an accessible example.

NSFW due to language.
CLOSED!

[Cadaverous Pallor]

GD tells me that my response to Alex seems serious. In case any of you feel the same, I'll claim victory in the art of Dry Wit Dueling with Alex.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Your art is valuable, indeed.

And thus you've deprived me of my artiness. For having been made sense of, it no longer is.

It's a said day in Farmville for I have lost my Street Fair booth license and am left able only to frolic among the pinwheels of passion and temperance.

[Morrigoon]

This page looks like a pretty simple explanation

[Tref]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Comedy surrealism abounds these days and I'm a huge fan. GD and I happened across this today. I think it makes an accessible example.

NSFW due to language.
CLOSED!

Comedy surrealism is in need of an editor.

[Disneyphile]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

(No offense to Disneyphile - this thread itself is a way of claiming amateur status).

None taken. I'm absolutely not ashamed to say I don't know something and ask for help.

This thread is really helping. I'm finding I really like Magritte - it's very intriguing, rather than WTF, like Dali.

An especially big thanks to those who made the Disney examples. That's putting it in a language I can understand.

So, all of this is really helping me gather ideas for my project. I knew I came to the right place.

[Disneyphile]

I love you people! I'm sitting here in class, working on my surrealism animation project, and my instructor LOVES it!

I'll show it in a couple weeks once we finish it. But, I can say it represents a matter very close to me, and can still represent other things for other observers. It's exactly what I was hoping to achieve.

Thanks SO much for all your help!

[alphabassettgrrl]

Cool!

Let me guess- it's a martini glass that eats bacon while surfing?

[Disneyphile]

Originally Posted by alphabassettgrrl

Let me guess- it's a martini glass that eats bacon while surfing?

Nope. Nothing that "fun". It's actually quite disturbing, really - it pictorially conveys a destructive thought process that I've personally battled.