Massurrealism

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and Conceptual Hybrid)
takes the surrealism aspect of its dream like psychic imagery and interprets it into amore mass popular, usually appealing entity. Pop arts influence on is more form a creative standpoint, which is extremely vital in today’s age of overflowed media influence. (Carrillo, Massurealism: A Visual and Conceptual Hybrid) By definition Massurealism is "the combination of largely unrelated concepts and visions that portray the popular perception of modern imagery, thus procuring its momentum from the disinterested play of thought which is dedicated to the absence of control exerted by reason, and emancipated from all aesthetic or moral preoccupations. (Pritchard: Massurealism- Modern Media)
The title was derived by American artist James Seehafer who wrote a brief essay on the topic published in 1992. Seehafer, like many contemporary artists, is strongly influenced by pop art, mass media, as well as technology and surrealism. The subject he chose as ...

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the style of Salvador Dali combing with the style of Andy Warhol comes to mind. Dali was from the Rennaissance School. He was a great painter, and was a master craftsman and surrealist. He used both mass-culture objects like no other artist ever did. He had a great sense of color and design. He expressed himself simply. Warhol used repetition to create a new art form. Warhol was strictly pop art, he was no surrealist. I think that if you combine both brains we might possible have one great massurrealist." He then continues with his thoughts of the subconscious hoping to enlighten the mind of his readers with a sense of magic. With this attempt to sport inspiration, ...

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