Surrealism was started my a famous artist named salvador Dali, many thought he was mad, but he would simply ignore there remarks and continue to believe that fact that he was the most beautiful man in the world. Due to his extraordinary imagination he was capable of making amazing paintings, they did not make any sense to anybody but him, and sometimes they looked so out of place you would think that maybe even he did not understand them himself. Salvador Dali lived a life of his own rules, and those were the only ones that he would follow, he would go for what he believed in and never took "no" for and answer not many people are capable of doing so, but that is how he got to where he is today. For our next assignment we where told to make a Surreal painting, and the only requirement we had was that a single hand would be added into it, other then that it was our turn to be creative and work out of the box, and thats what we attempted to do...
When i first began my work, i did not have a story line to it, i was just brainstorming and putting anything in that i thought would look good. But then towards then end, i started add some of my feelings to my work. For example, this year was very different then last, in many ways, not only did i find that i have changed, but also a lot of my friends. This painting has many bright colors- the sky is not blue but orange with yellow in it, it contrast with the drawing of the hand which is not even painted at all. The cloud and ocean is bright blue and you can see motion it it, when the hill is green but appears flat and glued to the page, these are all signs of contrast and differences. In my work i show that many things changing, like the blue cloud turning into an ocean, both beautiful but different. There hand being cut, and stabbed by arrows i did this to show that even though sometimes even though change may be something that we need, and it may just be for the better, it can hurt too... letting go is never easy and it is something that i have discovered form past experiences that i am not good at. I added an egg as the sun to show that after the change has occurred it is almost impossible for things to become just like they were before, the egg resembles the sun but it is not the same. Umbrellas were added to show that though all this you will have a shelter a safe haven no matter what has happened. There is a shark swimming in the ocean, this represents how during periods like this in your life you have to face your fears to get past them, the birds are flying away, this shows that people leave and how you have to move on with your life even though it may be really hard. This painting is not only representing what i feel today but also what i am expecting and preparing for in the future.
