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Monday, 2 February 2015

Turning a New Leaf With Surrealism

There are so many different types of visual art, and recently I've been admiring works in surrealism, where dreams and realism intersect.

When I was younger I drew almost exclusively from my imagination until I was older and decided to try a bit of realism and still life so that what was on paper could actually start to match what I mean to draw more often. I'm still working on it, but below is a sample of one of my first experiments with surrealism. Today, my love of Art and English are also going to be at a draw. The English language sometimes gives the same word different meanings, but the word "draw" is an interesting one. 

This is a drawing, or a sketch.

Back to Imagination. This definitely counts as a sketch...

"To draw" may be synonymous with "to sketch". Generally people don't call a drawing a "sketching" but simply "a sketch" (English is funny that way) but you wouldn't call it "a draw".

A draw is a tie, or an equality. In surrealism, neither realism nor a dream will win over the other, but they settle for a draw.

However to draw that dream in a real way, the artist takes of draws from the vision in his or her imagination and draw from reality to visually convey it.

Drawing from a vision or idea or object, and communicating it visually is essentially what drawing is.

Just a thought.

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