Knowledge – part 3 Intuited Knowledge through Surreal Art and Abstract Expressionism Intuited knowledge is the internal realm of the mind and the metaphysical world. Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy based on first principles, underlying a particular study of inquiry which includes ontology, cosmology and intimately connected with epistemology. Ontology studies the nature of existence or of being. Cosmology deals with the origin and general structure of the universe, space and time. Epistemology investigates the origin, nature, methods and limits of human knowledge.
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Knowledge – part 3
Intuited Knowledge through
Surreal Art and Abstract Expressionism
Intuited knowledge is the internal realm of the mind and the metaphysical world.
Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy based on first principles,
underlying a particular study of inquiry which includes
ontology, cosmology and intimately connected with epistemology.
Ontology studies the nature of existence or of being.
Cosmology deals with the origin and general structure of the universe,
space and time.
Epistemology investigates the origin, nature, methods and limits
of human knowledge.
Salvador Dalí
Swans Reflecting Elephants 1937
Surreal Art explored the unconscious, especially through dream imagery.
Sigmund Freud was an influential source through his writings of psychoanalysis and the
understanding of dreams, the conscious and the unconscious; the ego, super ego & the id.
Surreal Art
Salvador Dalí
Surrealism
Raphaelesque Head Exploding
1951 The Embarkation 1942-43
Philippe Halsman
Dalí Atomicus Film still 1948
Dalí experienced with Philippe Halsman, Luis Buñuel, Walt Disney and others film makers.
On Utube – view a 6-minute late 1940s collaboration between Dalí and Disney titled Destino
Salvador Dalí
Fifty Abstract
Paintings
Which as
Seen from
Two Yards
Change into
Three Lenins
Masquerading
as Chinese
and as Seen
from Six
Yards Appear
as the Head
of a Royal
Bengal Tiger
1963
Surrealist, René Magritte aimed to change
your habitual way of thinking about
imagery and words.
The Treachery of Images
1928
Attempting the Impossible 1928
René Magritte
The False Mirror 1929 William Golden
CBS Television logo 1952
Many artists and graphic designers have appropriated Magritte
and the idea of the all seeing eye, be it conscious or unconscious.
René Magritte
The Human Condition 1948
Influenced by Sigmund Freud, Magritte aimed to explain the meaning of Plato’s Cave.
Son of Man 1964
The Listening Room 1952
René Magritte
What do your think these apple
representations mean? Look at the title too.
Jackson Pollock
Blue Poles 1952
Abstract Expressionists practiced Existentialism, a new philosophy which stressed
absolute freedom of choice in art and in life as a human commitment. It could be a
way to gain self-knowledge through the process of making art.
Lee Krasner
Right Bird Left
1965
Helen Frankthaler
Nature Abhors a Vacuum
1973
Abstract
Expressionism
Abstract Expressionism was a way to lose yourself in
the process of “action painting” as a technique.
This style became known as Color-Field Paintings.
Creating fields of color to be
tranquil or contemplative.
Allow the color to envelope you.
Robert Motherwell
The Blueness of Blue 1974
Mark Rothko
Blue Orange Red 1961
The Critique of Learning
A few artists may look critically at human knowledge.
As humans, we aim to accumulate and struggle to acquire and preserve
human knowledge, yet books and their contents can disintegrate.
All human endeavor is cyclical like nature;
it is subject to periods of decline and entropy
that eventually lead to regeneration.
Knowledge is a critical basis for an understanding
politics and social constructs.
Knowledge is a familiarity with someone or something,
which can include facts, information, descriptions or skills