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TOGETHER IN OUR ENDLESS SOLITUDE ~ PAUL ELUARD

Monique — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 14:21:02 +0000

A poem by Paul Eluard

“I cannot be known
Better than you know me

Your eyes in which we sleep
We together
Have made for my man’s gleam
A better fate than for the common nights

Your eyes in which I travel
Have given to signs along the roads
A meaning alien to the earth

In your eyes who reveal to us
Our endless solitude

Are no longer what they thought themselves to be

You cannot be known
Better than I know you.”

― Paul Éluard

A French Poet

Eugène Grindel (1895-1952), known as Paul Éluard, was a French poet who was dedicated to Dadaism and Surrealism. He was a great admirer of symbolist and avant-garde poets such as Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, and Guillaume Apollinaire. The woman you see in the photo is his second wife Nusch Eluard (1906-1946) She was a French performer, model and surrealist artist.

Surrealism by Surrealists

What do we know about Surrealism? Surrealists say true reality only comes from your subconscious. It is for this reason that over time concepts and techniques were developed allowing the artists to use the subconscious mind. They wanted to be able to learn and discover the depths of their brains.

Surrealism was most popular among painters because of its immediate and clear form of expression. In comparison to other forms of art including poetry and literature, it was much harder to be expressed. Surrealists believed in a structured clearly outlined process when expressing themselves. The aesthetics were not that important.

Of course, we can also find surrealism in the film industry, a great example of a Surreal movie is The Blood of a Poet (1932) directed by Jean Cocteau

According to Octavio Paz, (1914-1998) the Mexican writer and poet, “Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision”. Paz himself was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990.

Picture by Man Ray

Photograph of Nusch and Paul Eluard made by the famous photographer Man Ray(1890-1976.) American painter, maker of Surrealist objects and photographer.

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FRANZ KAFKA ~ THE METAMORPHOSIS

Monique — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 11:29:11 +0000

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

Herbert Bayer
Metamorphosis, 1936

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ANDRE BRETON ~ EXISTENCE IS EVERYWHERE

Monique — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 09:39:40 +0000

“It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.”
Andre Breton

Photo by Henry Cartier -Bresson.

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LEONOR FINI ~ PAINTER OF THE SURREAL

Monique — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 13:43:44 +0000

Leonor Fini by Henri Cartier Bresson,Paris-1933

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MAX ERNST ~ ON WOMEN’S NUDITY

Monique — Sun, 28 Feb 2016 20:34:16 +0000

Woman’s nudity is wiser than the philosopher’s teachings.
Max Ernst

Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning, photo by Lee Miller.

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MAX ERNST ~ ON GOOD IDEAS

Monique — Sat, 27 Feb 2016 18:00:13 +0000

“All good ideas arrive by chance.”

Gala Éluard, 1924
Max Ernst

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KIERKEGAARD ~ HARMONY

Monique — Fri, 22 May 2015 14:14:53 +0000

“Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life’s relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

Painting: Paul Delvaux (Belgian, Surrealism, 1897–1994)

Harmony (L’Harmonie), 1927.

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FRIDA KAHLO ~ THE ACCIDENTS IN MY LIFE

Monique — Thu, 21 May 2015 13:41:02 +0000

“There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.”
Frida Kahlo

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RENE MAGRITTE ~ THE UNKNOWN

Monique — Tue, 12 May 2015 12:54:27 +0000

“The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.”

René Magritte

Rene Magritte (1898-1967)
The Lovers
Oil on canvas
1928

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PAUL NOUGE ~ LE BRAS REVELATEUR

Monique — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 10:18:51 +0000

Paul Nouge
Le Bras Revelateur (1929)

Paul Nougé (1895–1967) was a Belgian poet, philosopher and surrealist photographer who heavily influenced the Belgian Surrealist School of which he was a member. He was a friend and associate of fellow artists Louis Scutenaire, Marcel Mariën and René Magritte – whom he was a major influence upon.

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