RelâCHE

What Do You Know About Surrealism?

This lens is about the Surrealism Movement and Surrealist Art.

What is Relâche?

The approval of the public must be avoided above all. The public must be forbidden to enter if confusion is to be avoided.

-- Andre Breton

The word "relâche" is French and means "no performance tonight." It was often found on signs put outside a theater on the night the stage was to be dark. It was used by the Surrealists in 1924 as a title for a performance.

I heard the word in a class on Surrealism when I was in graduate school and liked it bacause it was almost spelled like "Rachel."

I have heard and read the pronounciation of "relache" as "ray-losh" (rhymes with splosh) and "ruh-lash." In modern translation it is sometimes listed as an adjective meaning "to slack off."

Surrealism - The Art

History of Surrealism: Surrealism as we know it today is closely related to some forms of abstract art. In fact, they shared similar origins, but they diverged on their interpretation of what those origins meant to the aesthetic of art.
Surrealist Compliments For All: The most surreal compliments you will ever receive.
The Surrealism Server: Surrealism began primarily as a literary movement based on radical ideas gaining momentum in the 1920s. Naturally, where words flow, images swim congruently, and it is perhaps for the many paintings and 'graphic works' associated with the movement that Surrealism has received much of its notoriety.
Surrealism: A surreal web page that discusses Dali, Magritte, Tanguy and more
Surrealism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Surrealism is an artistic, cultural and intellectual movement oriented toward the liberation of the mind by emphasizing the critical and imaginative faculties of the "unconscious mind" and the attainment of a dream-like state different from, "more than", and ultimately "truer" than everyday reality: the "sur-real", or "more than real".
Surrealist.com: History of Surrealism, Surrealism, Surrealist, Surrealist & Surrealism Artist and Surrealist & Surrealism Art. Comprehensive history of all things surrealist.
Surrealism.co.uk: Traditional Surrealism is a Historical Abstraction while Contemporary Surrealism is Historical Surrealism by Progressive Surrealists.
Breton - What is Surrealism?: A lecture given in Brussels on 1st June 1934 at a public meeting organised by the Belgian Surrealists, and issued as a pamphlet immediately afterwards
Guggenheim Collection - Movement - Surrealism: Surrealism, which had many international manifestations and which began as a literary movement before developing into an artistic one, was pioneered in France under the leadership of André Breton in the 1920s.
Research on Surrealism in America: Michael S. Bell, a specialist in American Art, researched the surrealist phenomena while he was assistant curator at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco fifteen years ago. He came to the conclusion that two very distinct trends of surrealism had developed. One could be qualified as Automatism, and the other as Veristic Surrealism.

SEE THE UNDERWATER MAN!

I shot this video at the St Stupid's Parade in San Francisco. I'd seen this guy walking around with his head in a container of water, up over his eyes, wearing a mask and breathing out a snorkel that went out the top of the container. Definitely surreal.

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You sort of wonder how folks do things like that... and then you sometimes suddenly stumble across them taking a break and get to see how it's done!

A Surreal Look Around

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Experience the Surreal

Anthology of Surreal Cinema, Vol. 1

ENTR'ACTE - From Director Rene' Clair. 1924. France. B&W. 14 min.
LA COQUILLE ET LE CLERGYMAN (SEASHELL AND THE CLERGYMAN) - Directed by Germain Dulac. Written by Antonin Artaud. 1928. France. 28 min. B&W.
BALLET MECANIQUE - Written and Directed by Fernand Leger. Cinematography by Man Ray and Dudley Murphy. 1924. France. 16 Min. B&W.
ANEMIC CINEMA - Directed by Marcel Duchamp. 1926. France. 6 min. B&W.

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Surreal Digital Photography (One Off)

by: Barry Huggins, Ian Probert

"Surreal Digital Photography" covers the use of digital imaging software to turn digital photographs into artistic works through montage or colour enhancements.

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Dali's Optical Illusions

As the writers explain in this collection, Dali's experiments with perspectives were all-encompassing. The catalog examines his study of conventional forms of perspective in Dutch and Italian art, as well as his play with anamorphosisthe perspectival distortion that produces on the canvas elongated forms demanding an oblique viewpoint--such as in The Enigma of William Tell.

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The Surreal Art of Dali

Links and information about one of the most popular of the surrealism artists, Salvador Dali.

Salvador Dali Museum » Welcome: Welcome to the Official Website of the Salvador Dali Museum in St Petersburg, Florida USA
VirtualDali.com: Virtual gallery of Salvador Dali's artwork, including hundreds of his paintings, a biography of his life, photographs of Dali, downloadable wallpapers, and related links.
Salvador Dali Biography: Spanish painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and designer. After passing through phases of Cubism, Futurism and Metaphysical painting, he joined the Surrealists in 1929 and his talent for self-publicity rapidly made him the most famous representative of the movement.
Audio Interviews - Salvador Dali: Listen to extracts from a BBC interview with Salvador Dali
:: Surreal :: The Salvador Dali Fanlisting :: :: :: :: ::: The official Salvador Dali fanlisting. Come help us build the biggest list of fans from all over the world!
Unknown: The Salvador Dalí Archives, located in New York City, is a private repository of information about Salvador Dalí, established with the approval of the artist by Albert Field over 50 years ago..

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The Quay Brothers

The Quay Brothers are indentical twins from Philadelphia who have made their careers while living and working in the UK. Their elaborate animations are known for the decaying atmosphere, sepia tones, surreal attention to detail and symbolic storylines.

The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993

The surreal visions of the Brothers Quay, identical-twin animators from Minnesota who have since made London their home, are an offbeat mix of clockwork mechanics, wire, thread, and 19th-century curios, all set to life in a series of beautiful but elusive set pieces. Directed in a highly stylized manner, with a shallow plane of focus that intentionally keeps certain objects blurred and a camera that moves with conspicuous mechanical precision, their works have a dreamlike quality about them.

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Brothers Quay Vol.1 [VHS]

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Brothers Quay Vol.2 [VHS]

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