Title: Anticathexis by artist Durand Seay
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Period: Contemporary
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Condition: Museum Quality
Item Date: 2009
Item ID: 2898
Abstract surrealistic oil painting on canvas by artists Durand Seay. The abstracted symbolism reflects the inner psyche theorized as consisting of two selves, one keeping the other in balance. The work is surrealistic in nature, creating a representation of the subconscious mind through fantastic or narrative imagery that pursues a symbolism of our spiritual connections. With Seay’s intuitive nature, his work is guided by spontaneity, expressing a language driven by structures or forms found in nature. Durand Seay’s work, like an architect, presents that examination of movement, an expression of time in space. His thinking is that of a camera, capturing that instant feeling of the wind against ones face.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealism
Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members.
Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur; however, many Surrealist artists and writers regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost, with the works being an artifact. Leader André Breton was explicit in his assertion that Surrealism was above all a revolutionary movement.
Surrealism developed out of the Dada activities of World War I and the most important center of the movement was Paris. From the 1920s on, the movement spread around the globe, eventually affecting the visual arts, literature, film, and music of many countries and languages, as well as political thought and practice, philosophy and social theory.
..Freud's work with free association, dream analysis and the hidden unconscious was of the utmost importance to the Surrealists in developing methods to liberate imagination. However, they embraced idiosyncrasy, while rejecting the idea of an underlying madness or darkness of the mind. (Later the idiosyncratic Salvador Dalí explained it as: "There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."[2])
