After visiting the surreal art show, I have come to terms with the fact that I don’t particularly like surrealism. At least, not surrealist art. I have known for some time that I didn’t like most modern art; things like readymades and installation art just don’t make sense to me. But strangely enough, most of what we now consider to be a part of our common culture seems to be based on surrealism in some form.
I’m a huge fan of sci-fi and fantasy movies and novels. The more I walked around the show, the more I realised that it is the imagination of people like this that make most of the things I read in my spare time. I mean, alternate worlds, what kind of mind makes that up? I find myself wondering if the sci-fi/fantasy genre would even exist without the surealism of the turn of the 20th century. Would we be able to think up fantasy movies like Blade Runner, or Alien; or comedies like Top Secret, or Hot Shots without the basis of the surrealists?
There seems to be so much that we take for granted these days. And it seems to me that most of what we look at on a daily basis has some form of surrealism to it. So I guess it’s kind of strange for me to say that I dislike surrealism, especially when it seems to have inspired so much in the arts that I do like. But I still don’t like readymades.
Annaliese
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