Unit 5A - An Andalusian Dog (Un Chien Andalou), the silent film by Luis Buñuel and Salvador PDF

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Unit 5A An Andalusian Dog (Un Chien Andalou), the silent film by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí

Freud’s theory of the unconscious mind said that the unconscious mind is the primary source of human behavior; feelings, motives and decisions. The unconscious mind makes itself present through dreams and slips of the tongue. Freud did not create the theory and certainty did not make artist paint form the unconscious in a day. This was done much before Freud but the theory did help artists understand where their painting where coming from. Brenton read Freud theory and came up with the idea that if you broke the barrier between the conscious and the unconscious you could create a new reality the surreality. The imagery and narrative structure shows the influence of Freud in different ways, for starters the imagery came to be from Freud and Buñuel’s dreams, like it said In the paper. Some of the imagery could also be seen as unconscious desires and wishes. The narrative of the film is edited in a different way than normal films, this film in particular don’t have much of a structure when iy comes to the different scenes, but it was filmed and edited in a narrative way when it comes to each individual scene. For me what makes the whole film look like a dream, its something that happened a lot in film, is that when filming they broke every rule that I’ve grown to learn such as the 180 rule.

The technique of “pure psychic automatism” is the act of expressing verbally, in writing or by any other method, the reality of dreams and undirected thoughts. It was first thought that this technique was only for writers, describing it as the uninterrupted flow of words, but later on Max Ernst suggested that a good way of approaching this technique in art was by basing it of

Unit 5A frottage, collage or grattage. They used the technique by using oil painting, pencil drawing, etc. As you can see in the drawing “Automatic Drawing” by Andre Masson took the idea of the technique literary, the whole drawing looks like an uninterrupted flow of lines. Automatic Drawing. (1924). Museum of Modern Art, New York. By Andre Masson

Another artwork that uses the technique is Harlequin’s Carnival by Joan Miró. In this painting the technique is shown more as a a flow of imaginations, just letting everything in the unconscious toach the paper and keeping it there. There is so much that can be interpreted from this one painting because it has so much going on. Joan Miró – Harlequin’s Carnival, 1924. Albright-Knox Art Gallery Joan Miró...