From surrealism to feminism: Sigmund Freud how to affect the art of the 20th century

From surrealism to feminism: Sigmund Freud how to affect the art of the 20th century

Dadaism represents Max ernst inspired by Freud's psychoanalytic art, in the first world war in 1919 created works the Aquis Submersus ". Ernst strongly felt the crisis of human society after the war, Freud for the treatment of mental patient may apply to the whole society at that time. Freud for the interpretation of dreams and the subconscious art caused the strong interest of a group of artists, they use a brush to record your own dreams. The surrealist group representative Andre Breton (Andre Breton), very admire Freud, and visited him in Vienna in 1921. But Freud dismissed surrealism, because he himself was the understanding of art is more traditional and classical.

In 1938, Dudley went to London in person to visit Freud, tried to persuade him to realize his subconscious art to the significance of surrealist painting. Dali, however, can neither German nor English at that time, Freud did not show any affection to him, this is followed by Freud to writer Zweig (Stefan Zweig) a letter. Freud believed at the time of the surrealist advocates is absurd, although the latter put him as the origin of inspiration, and considered a mentor. A year later, Freud had died.

Poet w.h. auden in his creation of poetry in 1940 in memory of sigmund Freud wrote:

He often makes mistakes, and sometimes absurd

For us, he is no longer a physical body

But dominate the generation of trend

Because of his influence, human life is very different from now on

A generation of ideological trend in auden wrote the poem after decades of influence.

Freud thinks, the person's unconscious is violation of morality and ethics, people didn't reach the desire in reality can be met in a kingdom of fantasy. Artists like a mental patient, from the one he was dissatisfied with the reality of the shrinking back, got into the world of his own imagine. His creation is just like a dream, the subconscious desire to get a hypothetical meet.

Josh Cohen (Josh Cohen, professor of goldsmiths college English department at the university of London and spiritual analysts have interpreted the influence of Freud's psychoanalysis on art: "subconscious ensures that the human can always surpass any laws, measures and standards, because we can put the subconscious upon their. Psychoanalysis to 'inaccurate' need of human nature is the main reason for it is closely related to art."

Surrealist freely under the canvas Painting dream, is trying to release in real life is repressed by the "superego" "this I", and "Action Painting" in the United States in the 1950 s (Action Painting) and the "Vienna initiative" in the 1960 s (Wiener Aktionismus) the driving force behind it can be seen as the "I" was released.

"Sex" as an important theme of contemporary art

Artist Michael Craig Martin (Michael Craig - Martin, taught at university college London goldsmiths college) said to the art news, sigmund Freud's art of the most obvious and important place is he put sex at the core of human identity and consciousness. The idea is still one of the cornerstones of modern western society.

In realized that Freud redefined our of self cognition, artist inevitably see Freud's great idea to know the key to human creativity. Craig Martin thought in the 20th century, including Picasso, art, Dali and bourgeois, artists are fascinated by sex. Now tracey emin and Sarah Lucas (Sarah Lucas) still need the this topic. Jeff koons is no doubt. Artists continuous attention to the gender is not surprising, but there is so much important as the center of the creation of artists will be, this is very interesting. The gender politics in the 1970 s, such as feminism and gay rights. The same problem, a feminist artists and a surrealist expression can vary wildly, but not completely different.