Surrealism helps the viewer step into another world, another reality. It often combines everyday mundane ideas with out of this world imagery. The audience for surrealism can be dreamers, they seek thrill and excitement with the images they see and also want to uncover a deeper meaning. Most surrealist images help the audience to escape what is normal and step into something different and unique. Surrealism is not our world but a dream like version with endless possibilities.
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This image below uses two separate images to create one entity for this specific art exhibition poster. It showcases a photograph of a normal woman’s face looking up. Across the image is a vibrant drawing with only her eyes peeking out, taking the shape of her face in an artistic unique way. The drawn part of her face is pictured between two grey walls, contrasting her colourful galactic nose and eyes which appears to have used several different images and shapes to come together and create the features. This poster seems to have several meanings within it. One showcases the hidden complexity of humans by contrasting the plain photograph of her face as it is with an overcast of what we are made up of and how fascinating and exciting that is through colour. The grey walls used within the art image which align with the black photographic background help push the narrative that humans are so much more than their surroundings as the colours contrast and signify very different meanings. Grey being mundane and boring, and rainbow being something out of the ordinary and exciting. The artwork coming across her eyes may signify that she is daydreaming, and that world is what she sees, it may also signify multiple dimensions and that there are two sides to our world with endless possibilities. There is a lot to unpack with surrealism.