Forum: Bryce


Subject: What is Surrealism?

striving opened this issue on Aug 17, 2004 ยท 22 posts


tjohn posted Tue, 17 August 2004 at 10:42 PM

I may be using too broad a definition personally. I see surrealism as a distortion of reality. An example of the way I see this would be my work "Suicide". A man hangs from a rope, suspended above an overturned chair, a stereotypical victim of suicide. The surreal part is that he is holding the end of the rope (it is not attached to anything) above his head in his own hand thereby holding up his own weight, an impossibility in the real world.

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy