He was born in May of 1962, in the USSR. In 1979 he graduated high school, which was the School of Fine and Applied Arts. He then attended the state university in which he graduated with an extreme amount of honors. He started experimenting with modern surrealism movements in college, as well as past techniques of surrealism. He then moved around Russia where he would become and extremely influential artist figure. He was a big part of the Free Artist Fellowship Movement in 1987. In 1989 he had his first international showing at a gallery in Mistral, London, in which he displayed his different and vast techniques on his surrealism paintings and drawings. In 1995 he moved to Canada, where he would start using technology to his advantage and changing his artistic paintings in various ways. In 2000 he joined IBM as a new media specialist where he now designs various logos and works of art for the corperation. His work is now featured at almost every exhibition you’d go to.
Artists name: George Grie
Title: Habitat for Humanity
Year: 2007
Description: This is an insanely crazy picture, in which George Grie put a creepy, old, oddly shaped house in the middle of some washed up old beach. Everything looks extremely real, and it almost looks like a hurricane blew this house into this beachy area.
Analysis: The focus of the picture is definitely the house, and it draws your eye to its various features. The colors are very dull, which adds a spooky effect to the picture and makes it a lot more real.
Interpretation: I interpreted this picture as maybe something that shows how humanity is changing. I get a lot out of this picture, especially that the only way for humans to live happily and without trouble, is to live completely stranded away from the rest of the world with little or no people.
Judgement: I think he did an awesome job on this picture, because it shows how creative you can be and how much you can change to a picture and still having it look like someone took it using a camera.
Josef Breitenbach
He was born in 1896 into a middle-class Jewish family. He grew up during world war 1 and had a difficult time adjusting to the horrible racism circling our world. He attended “mechanical” high school as a teen and eventually went on to the prestigious Ludwig-Maximillan University in Munich. He studied photography mostly and some art history which seemed to be one of his many artistic interests. He had also enjoyed politics, and got himself involved which later on, helped him become one of the most recognized international photographers. During WW2 he became one of the biggest targets, but he fled to France without the Gestapo coming close. He met a lot of famous photographers during the surrealism movement that was taking place during this time period. He began adapting to some of the newer photographic techniques, as playing with the color of a photo, sharpening it, meshing with it, contrasting the color, turning it black and white, and many other newer technique. He’d eventually move to New York City where his career truly took off, as he’s featured in most museums and known as one of the fathers of Surrealist Photo.
Artists name: Josef Breitenbach
Title: Zaungast, Germany
Year: 1933
Description: This picture shows an elderly man living on the streets, probably during the 1930’s or the Great Depression. There are various other objects in the picture such as big rocks, and a fence with various “picture show” signs advertising different things.
Analysis: The focus would most likely be the homeless man, but there’s also a lot of other items in the picture you can focus on, such as the rocks or fence as I mentioned before. There’s also something going on in the background that caught my eye. The colors give it a gloomy mood, which gives me more of a reason to think this fellow has had his fair share of bad breaks.
Interpretation:The way I interperate this piece is that he is trying to say that the times of the 30’s were extremely tough around the world, as they are in todays world. If you don’t have a job, companions, or somewhere to live, you can end up on the streets searching for daily necessities. Life can always be worse, and you need to find the bright side in bad, bad situations.
Judgement: I think this is a very successful piece. He incorporated everything he needed to and left a little room where you don’t have an idea what’s going on, to think about it and use your mind to create a scenario.
Traditional Surrealistic Art
This began in the 1920’s, as many artists created this movement to try something new, fun, and very, very different. A big element of surrealism was surprise; they wanted to wow those looking at their paintings, sculptures, and engravings. Europe was where it really started, as it’s said to be born in France. Everything affected the normal surrealistic artist, from politics to worldwide current events, surrealism had something to do with everything and could relate to just about anything. Some of these paintings showed alternative viewpoints to certain problems or situations people generally agreed on. Surrealistic artists were said to be corrupting the fine, modern version of what art was said to be. They didn’t like how it was different, and you actually had to think about the picture. Some of the portraits or drawings didn’t make sense, and that’s what made people fall in love with this new, surrealism that was sweeping the world by storm. There’s not just a dog sitting next to a cat in a surrealistic painting, there’d be a dog, with a cats body, with cat legs and paws.
Digital Surrealism Art
Digital Surrealism art is becoming extremely popular in today’s world as we are all using photoshop, macromedia, and different programs to alter our pictures. These give the surrealism photographs that are already different and unknown as well as very, very unpredictable a whole new meaning. You can make photos outrageous, and the effects will look absolutely amazing. Many of the traditional and older surrealistic art aren’t as big fans of this new type because it takes away from being creative without the help of technology.
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