#surréaliste

[bizarreauhavre]

Italian school (18th century), a grotesque carnival procession.

Oil on canvas, 45,7 x 38,2 cm.

[vagabondageautourdesoi]

Nicolas Perge - Lise Deharme,

Cygne noir RENTREE LITTERAIRE 2023 Nicolas Perge met en lumière une poétesse et romancière qui marqua de sa présence étonnante le mouvement surréaliste. Lise Deharme fut une muse, une salonnière, grand train, mais aussi une créatrice, attachée dans la vie et dans ses œuvres, à la liaison du merveilleux et du réel. Figure semble-t-il incontestable de ce mouvement qu’André Breton créa et assura…

[souslajaquette]

Le tour du cadra, de Leo Perutz

Assis autour de la table pour discuter du roman, nous aurions pu être dans un café de Vienne où sa parution en 1918 fit grand bruit.

Merci à notre digne membre Pierre Gamache d’avoir sorti de la bibliothèque ce livre tombé dans l’oubli où nous suivons les péripéties d’un jeune homme cachant dans sa large redingote des menottes que personne ne saurait voir.

Est-ce un rêve ou la réalité? Sur la question les avis sont partagés. La journée prend l’allure d’un conte où chaque personnage est rendu plus vrai par l’étrangeté de la situation.

Pourtant notre héros sombre bel et bien dans la folie, entraîné dans son jeu comme dans un engrenage. Il y a de la graine de rébellion à son amusement initial de déjouer les codes de cette société engoncée dans sa satisfaction. Mais ce faisant il ne prend garde et se joue de lui-même.

C’est l’ironie du sort le jour des parias. « On échappe pas à soi-même quel que soit le temps qui nous est imparti » conclut P.G.

Catherine St-Antoine, décembre 2023

[philipperivrain]

Dada-hit 3 par Philippe Rivrain Via Flickr : Uni-vers et vues sur réelles

[lindastylesart]

‘Precious Peninsula’ weed pots, for Ancient Scent 1, (an homage to Ithell Colquhoun) and automatic evolving process ways of seeing and doing. ceramic 2016. #thelivingstones:cornwall #surréaliste #water #air #alchemical #nature #ritual #pitfire #drumfire #mespontaneouscombustion #gratefire #neolithic #granite #earthpigments #fire (at Des Models de Linda - ART) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClbY48FohPn/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[kelleah-meah]

Here are a few souvenirs from my day out at the Guggenheim museum, followed by a pit stop at the Shakespeare and Co. bookstore (not affiliated with the one in Paris, btw).

The magnets of Kandinsky's works and the Chagall poster are from the museum. And the books from the shop.

Pardon the uneven lighting, the top photo was taken in the evening with yellowish indoor lighting.

[sculptures-creations-art]

" Classic et fantastique". série surréaliste. Numéro 48.

[hedgehog-moss]

The text updates I was sending a friend while at the protest in Paris yesterday are kind of tragically funny, it goes from "the cops are staying away and as a result everything's going well, they clearly received better orders today, I'm glad" to "wait, no, forget that"

1. "Everything's going well, there are a couple of small fires but no one cares, the crowd calmly avoids them, some people stop to warm their hands over them, it's very civilised. I don't think the people who set stuff on fire are the problem, when the cops stay away everything goes smoothly"

2. "There are groups of CRS with batons and shields in the side streets but they stay very discreet compared with the other protests and weirdly enough this one is calmer!"

3. My friend : "Maybe they received different orders today"

Me "Yeah it's a miracle, someone made a sensible decision"

4. "We just passed another side street full of cops and I heard someone said "last time they started charging us, we had no idea why" so yeah they clearly received different instructions today"

Less than 10min later: "never mind we're being tear gassed"

Then: "Never mind they just charged us several times we have no idea why"

"I arrived at the end point of the march, looked back and there was a fresh new cloud of tear gas over the (very calm, many elderly people) groups in the middle of the march. More police cars + a water cannon are arriving"

Can't overstate how calm the protest was, just people (100K to 300K according to estimates) walking from point A to point B while holding signs. There were a few trash fires but if they'd sent firefighters to extinguish them people would have let them through... I had friends who walked in the middle of the march to avoid any trouble or gas and they still got tear gassed without knowing why. Even supposing there were people ahead of me I couldn't see who were being more antagonistic towards the CRS, surely the hundreds of cops present could have somehow dealt with that without charging and bludgeoning peaceful protesters and tear gassing thousands of people? Right now it's not possible for French citizens to peacefully assemble without getting systematically gassed by police.

Here's a video of when they first charged the front of the march, the people they're hitting can't move back any faster (I was somewhere in the compact crowd behind wondering (cause I'm not tall I couldn't see anything 😭) why we were suddenly being pushed back when things had been calm and fun until then. People who had been there before were coaching others like 'don't try to run, you'll make the people behind panic, just walk fast'). I counted five or six tear gas grenades going off

From what I've heard from people who were at the protest, the ones who didn't get gassed are the ones who were at the back of the march and left early without completing the march (some left because they saw the cloud of gas ahead). I've also seen people at other protests in various cities yesterday describing a similar situation : peaceful crowd getting separated in two by a charge, gassed and soaked with water cannons, most people having no idea why. If I had to describe this in terms of police strategy it would be, gas as many people as possible to dissuade your average peaceful protester from completing the march and showing up next time, and be aggressive towards the front of the march to rile them up and get nice images of youth burning things or throwing stuff at cops to show on the evening news and turn public opinion against protesters.

(Note that the society of journalists working for France Télévision (public TV, like the French BBC) have published a statement decrying the poor framing of the protests on the national news, saying too much emphasis was placed on the small amount of people destroying stuff and almost nothing on police brutality and the record numbers of (peaceful) protesters in the streets.) (Read this if you're French and have been wondering why some people around you still don't think the situation is worrying...)

Anyway, I'm glad I went. It was good to see so many people just as angry as I am about what's happening to this country and guillotine-chan was in attendance, and many people had very fun signs and I liked this angry flag:

[diana-andraste]

Je ne vois pas la [femme] cachée dans la forêt La Révolution surréaliste, Paris no. 12, December 15, 1929

The Surrealist group around Magritte's I do not see the (Woman) hidden in the Forest

[bizarreauhavre]

Ditlev Blunck, (nightmare), 1846.

[vagabondageautourdesoi]

Arthur Teboul - Le Déversoir

Poèmes minute Arthur Teboul s’était fait connaître comme chanteur et parolier du groupe Feu Chaterton. Il revient se déclarant clairement et ouvertement poète avec Le déversoir, ou Poèmes minutes. En effet, reprenant l’exercice des surréalistes autour des associations libres, Arthur Teboul y excelle. Suivant une méthode simple : laisser venir un mot, n’importe lequel, sans censure. Y associer…

[garadinervi]

Paul Éluard and Benjamin Péret, 152 proverbes mis au goût du jour, La Révolution surréaliste, Paris, 1925

[parure-d-insomnie]

Les Surréalistes pose au désert de Retz (1960)________photo de Denise Bellon.

[jac-zap]

jac-zap - Dans un lieu enveloppé de nuit, une poupée lascive veille sur un autel dressé sur un étal de boucher recouvert d’un brocart mordoré. Aucun souffle vivant ne vient perturber l’ordre factice des reliques.

[kalincka]

Écoutez-moi. Écoutez-moi quand Alice est prise en charge par la Brigade Temporelle c'est Constance qui s'occupe d'elle ok. Et on peut se douter que Mattéo, Louise et Victor s'occupent de Renard et Raph vu qu'ils les ont arrêtés. D'accord ?

Écoutez-moi.

Il ne reste que deux personnes à la Brigade pouvant garder Gilbert.

[philoursmars]

Nouveau retour à mon projet de présenter la plupart de mes 55500 photos (et des brouettes).  Plus trop loin du présent….  

2016. Marseille en octobre, Au Musée Cantini, une expo : “Le Rêve”:

- Odilon Redon : “Le Buddha”

- les 2 suivantes : André Breton : “As de Connaissance” et “Mage de Connaissance”  pour le Tarot Surréaliste

- les 2 d’après : Jacqueline Lamba : “As de Révolution” et “Baudelaire, Génie d’Amour” pour le même

- Hans Bellmer - ''La Toupie

- le reste : le Musée Cantini.