Surrealism
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 5:10 pm
Manifesto of Surrealism
by André Breton, 1924
https://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/ ... ealism.htm
“Still, STILL.... We must absolutely get to the bottom of this. Today, June 8, 1924, about one o'clock, the voice whispered to me: 'Béthune, Béthune.' What did it mean? I have never been to Béthune, and have only the vaguest notion as to where it is located on the map of France. Béthune evokes nothing for me, not even a scene from The Three Musketeers. I should have left for Béthune, where perhaps there was something awaiting me; that would have been too simple, really.”
- Breton
The final adventure into the unknown, which will be the biggest and most exciting, looms for all.
What better way to practice up than to follow the winds of wu wei with earnestness and focus, as suggested by Breton.
About a hundred years after the manifesto that followed dada, surrealism is now more acceptable, although the defining spirit of the manifesto itself has been whittled down to simply mean, “weird.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnTaCAYxHCo
by André Breton, 1924
https://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/ ... ealism.htm
“Still, STILL.... We must absolutely get to the bottom of this. Today, June 8, 1924, about one o'clock, the voice whispered to me: 'Béthune, Béthune.' What did it mean? I have never been to Béthune, and have only the vaguest notion as to where it is located on the map of France. Béthune evokes nothing for me, not even a scene from The Three Musketeers. I should have left for Béthune, where perhaps there was something awaiting me; that would have been too simple, really.”
- Breton
The final adventure into the unknown, which will be the biggest and most exciting, looms for all.
What better way to practice up than to follow the winds of wu wei with earnestness and focus, as suggested by Breton.
About a hundred years after the manifesto that followed dada, surrealism is now more acceptable, although the defining spirit of the manifesto itself has been whittled down to simply mean, “weird.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnTaCAYxHCo