Paper & Pixel is a Brown University/RISD student magazine. “Illusions: Janelle II” will appear in the next issue.
Thanks to Drew Durbin and John Cockrell.
Artist / Photographer
I will be showing “The Illusionist” at Hillel on April 12th for the show Rejected: The Other Student Show.
Thanks to Janelle Sing and Bevan Weissman.
“The Illusionist” will also be in the upcoming issue of “Clerestory,” a Brown student arts magazine.
Dali uses a number of techniques frequently throughout On modern art, to achieve his surrealistic style and tone. Some of these are (1) surrealist logic, (2) metaphor, and (3) paradox and reversal.
In his surrealist logic, his reasoning does not logically lead from one point to another, it just leaps from premise to assertion, or from assertion to assertion without any tight linear connection, and certainly without a deductive connection. His work still maintains a unity through an over-the-top tone. In part this tone is achieved through the flamboyant use of adjectives and concepts that is his trademark.
He uses unexpected metaphors though out the book to prove points.
He uses paradox and reversal often, both of which are common in comedy. Often in the case of his use of paradox he exploits the fact that all generalizations destroy themselves at some point in time–including that one. Reversal is when you think the story is going one way and then an amusing twist switches where you thought you were going to somewhere completely different.
Examples
The following sentence uses all three:
Big Picture
His writing style is over the top in a way that is congruent with his public persona and the boldness and irrationality of many of his paintings. There also seems to be an underlying structure of thought that is pervasive in much of his work; paintings, writing, and public persona. He achieves his irrationality in very systematic ways: not randomly, but through the repetitive use of illogical and nonlinear thinking.