EL TORO EXPERIENCE

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POSTCARDS FOR KEN!!

Sorry Margot..

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DRAFT MANIFESTO

ART SHOULD BE PRODUCED AND NOT MANUFATURED.  IT SHOULD BE PERSONAL, ORIGIONAL, NEW AND UNIQUE.  ART SHOULD BE EVER CHANGING, EVER EVOLVING.  ART SHOULDBE GROUND BREAKING FUNDIMENTAL AND ELEMENTAL.  ART SHOULD HOLD THE MAGIC OF CHILDHOOD BUT SHOULD COMMENT WITH WISDOM CENTURIES BEYOND ITS AGE.  ART SHOULD ART.  EVERY PIECE IS MASTERPIECE, EVERY ARTIST A VISIONARY AND EVERY AUDIENCE CHILDREN.  ALL WITH THEIR OWN VIEWS ON THE WORLD OF ART…………..

Kens Visit!!

Ken had an amazing life.  It would have been so interesting to have lived during that time.  Not only did he live through the 60’s and the 70’s he was extremely influential.  The Alternative press helped shape the culture by getting art and poems out to the general public.  They did not do it for money or fame.  They did it because someone had to share the amazing work that was going on and that someone was Ken and his wife!

 

Amélie

The thing i like most about Amélie was the fact that the movie was in french.  It was kept in its original form and not dubbed over.  I was able to understand most it without reading the subtitles and it made the film feel much more surreal.  Paris was the central hub of surrealism and Amélie was not lacking in surrealist undertones.  I also enjoyed the fluxus style movies that Amélie made for the man with the brittle bones.  It inspired me and Rebecca to make our Fluxus style final project.  Over all, the development of characters and cinematography made Amélie a move that everyone should see.  Not just surrealist enthusiasts.

The LAKE

Rumor has it the old man still wonders around in his handmade rowboat ,endlessly drifting through Crest Lake.  Looking for his wife, he is endlessly unsatisfied.  The rest of the underpopulated town knows his wife’s fate and what became of her fragile body that humid august day.  And to some extent, the old man knows too but to jolt his aged wondering memory would do no good. So thats how it went and he continued peacefully, not knowing.  Then one day he received a letter.  and the nostalgia overwhelmed him.  The return address was familiar, as was the wonderful smell of the perfume

-Matt,Ilana,Rachel

Dali Atomicus (1948) by Philippe Halsman

Good cop/ DADAist cop

Surrealist Post #3 (Common themes of Surrealist Art)

There are many common features between surrealist artists and painters.  These include familiar objects that have been slightly changed, mysterious objects, and optical illusions.

–familiar objects that have been slightly changed

René Margritte painted a picture of boots that changed into feet once they reach the ground.  At first glance, this pair of boots appears ordinary but it soon changes into something strangely “surreal.”

-mysterious objects

Two more paintings by René Margritte depict mysterious objects.  In “son of Man,” Margritte painted an apple over a mans face.  In “Not to be Reproduced,” he painted a man looking to a mirror but we see only the back of his head.  (both in reality and in the reflection.

–optical illusions

Salvador Dali also dabbled in optical illusions.  “Apparition of face, and fruit dish on a beach” can be interpreted as either a bowl of fruit, a lady’s face or even a dog.

Daylight Savings

Justify the Banishment

I bet it’s on a remote island somewhere.  Washed away with all the other cancelled hours, it becomes a stranger in a foreign world.  When we forget and forgive ourselves for that forgetfulness, we are signing a death warrant for that misfit hour.  Unnecessary, defeated and outcast, the omitted hour is banished on daylight savings.  I bet it’s with the others though and perhaps that company can provide some justification for the banishment.

                              – Matt Cunningham

I really liked the parody of forgive and forget which is why I chose he first line.  The second line strikes me as three particularly odd adjectives to describe an hour, but I liked it.  The last line was just sort of dramatic and it hit me in a good way.

-we forget and forgive ourselves for that forgetfulness

-Unnecessary, defeated and outcast

-justification for the banishment

The Grandfather Clock

Who did it? Who took it away?  What is their justification for the banishment of time.  Who are thy to play god with my phone?  But thank god for the wall clocks, the grandfather clocks, the wrist watches.  Without them, I may never have noticed that the hour was lost.  We forgive and forget ourselves for that forgetfulness.  BUT NO LONGER! I move the hands foreword on the big oak monument to time that stands forgotten in the corner of the room.  I move past minutes and time?  Where is it going? I feel defeat and outcast while the   fleeting seconds of my life go beyond my grasp.  My life passes before my eyes.

                 -Andrew Roth

We both talked about the missing hour, wondering what happened to it.  That was probably because of the wording that matts phrases he chose.  Also we both transformed time into a tangible object.  Something that could be lost, banished, or stolen.