#1890-1976 american visual artist

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"大自然不會創造藝術品。 看到藝術的是我們以及人類大腦特有的詮釋能力。

NATURE DOES NOT CREATE WORKS OF ART. IT IS WE, AND THE FACULTY OF INTERPRETATION PECULIAR TO THE HUMAN MIND, THAT SEE ART."

－ MAN RAY (American, 1890-1976) He was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. He produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above all. He was best known for his pioneering photography, and was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. He is also noted for his work with photograms, which he called "rayographs" in reference to himself.

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Happy Heavenly Birthday to Man Ray (1890-1976), the pioneer of visual art and “found objects.” He was born in American but spent most of his career in Paris, becoming an informal contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements surrounding him. His career intersected with Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, and a hit list of actors, artists, dancers, filmmakers, and musicians. Despite Ray tagging himself as “just a painter,” he produced major works in a variety of media and is best known for his pioneering photography—specially fashion and portrait photography. He is also noted for his work with photograms (photographic images made not with a camera but with light exposure) which he called “Rayographs.” In the 1920s he directed and appeared in a number of avant-garde films, including the 1924 urban fantasy ENTR’ACTE (directed by René Clair). Ray appears with Frances Picabia, playing chess on a chessboard that transforms into a city center with busses and cars. I used this scene in a video for my song “It’s In Your Hands,” with music that quotes heavily from Erik Satie (who also appeared in ENTR’ACTE). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxReq4Xr-U8 Meanwhile, thank you Man for getting us to see the art in everything.

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Man Ray, Self-Portrait, 1941

Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky; August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. He produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above all.

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Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky; August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. He produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above all. He was best known for his pioneering photography, and he was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. Man Ray is also noted for his work with photograms, which he called "rayographs" in reference to himself.💖#LovingMemory

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man ray (1890-1976) was an american visual artist who spent most of his career in paris. he was a significant contributor to the dada and surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal

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Anna D. Smith Fine Art and Real Estate Broker: Bored Ape Yacht Club, a white supremacist NFT series has collected over $2 billion by selling to celebrities, its Jewish and African American Hate art.

Purpose of Art

There are five purposes to visual Art: Ceremonial, Artistic Expression, Narrative, Functional and Persuasive. Persuasive Art are ideals, philosophy or products. Its use can be found in advertising, marketing, and propaganda.

In the 1915 film Birth of a Nation, it depictes Northern abolitionists, carpetbaggers and freed slaves, many of whom were elected as state legislators, as being perilous to the antebellum South.

Whites in black face, depicted African Americans as extras in a minstrel show. Drinking whiskey, sitting barefoot, and gorging on meat, as they take their seats as new South Carolinian legislators. Suddenly, the words on the screen flash, “The helpless white minority!”

In another scene, a White actor in black face chases a White woman. This scene symbolizes the rape of the South. Instead of succumbing to the will of the savage, she throws herself from a cliff. This film, acting as a persuasive work of visual art, reinvigorated a defunct Ku Klux Klan, swelling its ranks from a few thousands to over 5 million by the 1930s.

According to Tracey Martin in his January 2020, California State University, San Bernardino abstract, “Propaganda: How Germany Convinced the Masses,” she notes, “film is one of the best instruments to convince the masses.”

Joseph Goebbels who was in charge of the Nazi’s Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda believed feature films were an extremely important propaganda tool. One such film is Der Ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew). The Eternal Jew is perhaps the most reviling propagandistic piece of film in Nazi Germany and presents the Jewish people as a plague. They are compared to rats that spread disease and contagion and flood the nation while devouring the resources of the area. A film review from 1940 in Unser Wille und Weg (The Nazi Party “monthly for propagandists) claimed the film provided “a broad treatment of the life and effects of this parasitic race using genuine material taken from real life.”

Within the sub-genre of Persuasive art are Subliminal messages. Subliminal Messages are visual stimuli that are not perceived by the conscious mind. They are often put into adverts, to enhance or convey a hidden meaning. One of the visual tools to carry out this subliminal messaging are memes. 

A meme is a cultural gene. Culture is a vital mechanism of survival for those species who have organized themselves into groups. In his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins defined memes as cultural units of information. Neuropsychologist Nicholas Keynes Humphrey called memes living structures, not just metaphorically, but residing physically in the brain.

Founding executive editor of Wired Magazine, Kevin Kelly, in his 1992 book Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World further espouses upon the living organism of the meme, “Memes that replicate most effectively enjoy more success, and some may replicate effectively even when they prove to be detrimental to the welfare of their hosts.”

Professor Limor Shifman of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in her 2014 book Memes in Digital Culture contends digital memes are unique. In her focus of their use in politics, she notes, “Because many regimes monitor or censor the internet in general and social media in particular, activists use code words to obscure their discussions and intentions.”

White Supremacy in the Age of Social Media

Social media, or as scholars might put it, “long-distance social networking,” dates back millennia. Early sprawling civilizations relied heavily on long-distance communications. According to Britannica and other sources, the first documented state-sponsored Postal Service was in the land of the Pharaohs, Egypt, around 2400 BC. The invention of the telegraph in 1792, allowed messages to be delivered over a long distance faster than a Horse and Rider.

The 1890s saw the invention of the telephone and radio. These inventions instantaneously allowed long-distance communication, a first in human history. Consensus says, the first recognizable social media site was Six Degrees in 1997.

In 2010, American neo-Nazi Richard Bertrand Spencer started the online publication Alternative Right. The term “Alt right” is short for alternative right, a repackaging of white supremacy palatable for mainstream audiences.

Alt-righters use terms like “culture” as substitutes for more divisive terms such as “race,” and promote “Western Civilization” as a code word for white culture or identity. They mask their ideology by conjuring up images of rebellion or anti-establishment to appeal to young minds. One such cohort to this covert appeal to young White minds was Dylan Roof.

In 2015, 21-year-old Roof murdered nine African American parishioners at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. On his website The Last Rhodesian, Roof was seen posing with White supremacist and neo-Nazi symbols. There he wrote his manifesto which stated, “I chose Charleston because it is most historic city in my state, and at one time had the highest ratio of blacks to Whites in the country.” Charleston, South Carolina, is also the location of the first shot to launch the American Civil War.

According to the Anti-Defamation League, in 2016, the term Alt-right began to gain traction. Their antisemitism blame Jews for promoting anti-white policies such as immigration and diversity. Many young Alt-righters are active in the Chan world, including 4Chan, 8Chan (now defunct) and Reddit. These message boards, where most people post anonymously, are a key source of internet memes and trolling efforts which often target women and minorities.

It is common to find memes that belittle the Holocaust and depict well-known Jewish figures being gassed. The creators of these memes have espoused that bigoted humor and irony help attract new followers to the alt right. They are also hostile towards women.

In the 2014 Gamergate, males in the gaming community expressed hostility and resentment toward certain female gamers. These women were attacked and threatened online. This pushed a number of women to leave the gaming community, and pointed the way to alt-right cohorts to the effectiveness of online harassment campaigns against their enemies.

Conclusion

In the 21st century, white supremacy is not a politically spent force. It thrived during the 20th century in the United State’s Jim Crow South, Nazi Germany, and apartheid South Africa.Funding is the lifeblood to the success of a political campaign. That also includes the politics of Hate. In the winter of 2021, Hate generously received a $2 billion stimulus, courtesy of the celebrity class. When American actor and producer Elijah Wood discovered the controversy around the NFT series Jungle Freaks, he sold them and donated the proceeds to the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and Black Lives Matter. He too provided a cash stimulus, but in favor of the forces against Hate.A Ripple in TimeQuite often in fiction, stories are written of returning to the past to change the present. When a person tosses a pebble in still water, they can visually observe a rippling effect. In other words, affecting the water far beyond the pebbles initial contact point.

Why ‘Birth of a Nation’ is still the most racist movie ever is the 2015 headline to a New York Post article. Novelist Thomas Dixon Jr. wanted  $10,000 in order for D.W. Griffith to turn his story into a movie. Griffith, who had run out of money, only had $2,500. They worked out a deal for Dixon to be paid in the future.What if Dixon would only accept being paid upfront, and Griffith could not find funding to make up the difference, how many African Americans would not have been hanging from trees for having not been lynched?What if The Eternal Jew was not funded, how many Jews would not have died?Here has been laid out, the visual arts are to serve one of five Masters, and that persuasion is one of those Masters. Persuasive art will use visual devices to conceal meanings, known as subliminal messages, and that memes are visual bits of information living inside a host brain.Now, white supremacists have $2 billion in Bored Ape Yacht Club sales to unleash Hateful memes, subliminal messages, and other forms of persuasive art on to an unsuspecting public. In effect, a twenty-first-century Birth of a Nation stimulus package, whose effect won’t be observed until 2032.

Racist slurs shouted at player during basketball game at Laguna Hills High School is the title of a KTLA online article. In late January 2022, at a high school basketball game between Portola and Laguna Hills in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, Makai Brown was shooting free throws.Sitting in the stands, a Laguna Hills student began hurling racial slurs at Brown. The incident was caught on video. The Laguna Hills student was yelling “Chain him up! Don’t let him out of his cage!”; and “He’s a monkey!” Brown was the only African American player on  Portola. Cheerleaders and others also reported receiving disparaging remarks from the Laguna Hills student.In 2022, how is it possible that such sentiments could even exist, in a racially progressive place like Los Angeles?What if that same student was playing across a child of Bored Ape Yacht Club owner Dj Steve Aoki, would he be sportsmanlike against an Aoki offspring? Or, what if he had to approve who gets on a list for something that is desired by an offspring of Bored Ape Yacht Club owner Dj Khaled, is that the kind of person he would want to make that decision?Many of these Bored Ape Yacht Club owners have been impacted by Hip Hop. Hip Hop is a $50B+ industry. Two of its elements, Rap and Graffiti, owe their origins from prison settings, before being unleashed into the community. See “Spoken Floz,” Prisoners Retake Over of Hip Hop

| darealprisonartWhat kind of rippling effect would occur if Bored Ape Yacht Club owners sold their Apes, and instead bought Prison Art?In a 2020 interview with Ink From The Pen founder Pamela Delgado, Delgado tells Darealprisonart the following, “I have lots of feedback from both the inmates and from their families as well… The most touching that is fresh in my mind is a Texas inmate that sent me several pieces of his art.. I recently found a collector to buy them and sent the money to his wife… unbeknownst to me she had lost her job due to covid, and had no way of providing any type of xmas for their children… the money that I sent made that possible for them.”This same article “

How Covid Impacts Prison Art Exhibits,” featured Buck Adams, founder of the website Art for Redemption. The website provides prisoners with the opportunity to sell their artwork with 60% of the proceeds going to prisoners. This money allows prisoners to meet financial obligations, such as child support, and fees or fines associated with their convictions. Adams upon his reentry, experienced firsthand, conviction related debt obligations, and saw Art for Redemption as a means to lessen these reentry debt burdens.These reentry court ordered financial obligations are very serious. In 2018, voters in Florida voted to restore the voting rights of ex-prisoners. However, Florida legislatures passed a law barring this right if the prisoner still owes fees or fines associated with their convictions. This law has been upheld in court.Adams told Darealprisonart, “Getting prison systems to open up to the idea that inmates making money to help pay their socialtial debts, take some of the financial burden off of their families through the use of creativity and art should be something looked at as positive.  Doing the time is the punishment. To not allow one to share creativity and talent is beyond the scope of punishment I believe.”In 2016, Hollywood film producer and founder of the Anti-Recidivism Coalition Scott Budnick is quoted as saying, “This will not be your traditional art auction, this would be at a major museum, with celebrity art auctioneers, and the ability to raise tremendous awareness, bring in massive press, and a considerable amount of funding, all to benefit a nonprofit organization and also the artist inside (50/50). We have many board members with powerful connections in the art world, and believe art from inside could sell for 5x or 10x what it traditionally would get,”

What Financially Minded Blacks Should Know About Art | Artist Social Network.

Here, Budnick has chosen to use his celebrity to promote a positive rippling effect, both in rehabilitation of prisoners and restitution to crime victims, child support, the courts, and to ease the burden of incarceration on families with incarcerated family members. Here is one way to use the rippling effect of Art to effect a broad range of societal interests, rather than the single-minded focus of white superiority. When you know better, you are supposed to do better, and hopefully Bored Ape Yacht Club owners will follow Elijah Wood’s example of selling off their ownership interest in this offensive NFT series.

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Man Ray

Man Ray (1890 - 1976) was an American visual artist (though spent most of his career in Paris) and was a key figure in the Dada and Surrealist movements, despite his loose connection to both movements. He worked with a variety of mediums but considered himself a painter above all, however he was best known for his photography as a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. Man Ray is also noted for his work with photograms (which he dubbed "rayographs" in reference to himself)

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Illusion - research 1

23 January 2021

DADAISM

“Dada” is an avant-garde movement started in early 20th century in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1915, then  in 1920 flourished in Paris. Dadaist artist wanted to show their discontent toward violence, war and nationalism by expressing nonsense, irrationality, and anti-bourgeois protest in their works. They wanted to shock establishment and share distrust to logic and their love to the absurd.

SURREALISM

Surrealism arose on the Dadaism. It is an artistic trend that begin in France in 1924 and initially appeared in the literature through the philosopher and poet André Breton. By assumption, this movement was to be an expression of rebellion against classicism, realism and what is rational, as well as the destruction of conventions in art. Through their paintings, the artists wanted to express their inner perception of reality in a way that is often grotesque, unreal, as if on the border of fantasy, reality and dream. Surrealism quickly spread around the globe and was represented by: Salvador Dalí, Jean Arp, Max Ernst, André Masson, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Pierre Roy, Paul Delvaux, Joan Miró, Toyen (Marie Cerminova), Frieda Kahlo. Surrealists looked their inspirations in philosophical theories by Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung as well as in symbolism of an earlier painters artists like Gustave Moreau, Hieronymus Bosch and Francisco Goya. Surrealists were fascinated by the human psyche and subconscious.

Salvador Dali (1904 – 1989) was a Spanish surrealist artist known for his technical skill, precise sketching and the striking and bizarre images in his work. He joined the Surrealist group in 1929 and became one of its leading representatives. A fellow of Man Ray. 

Salvador Dali and Man Ray in 1934, Paris.

Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky; 1890-1976) was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealists movements. He considered himself as a painter, but he produced the most important works in various media. He was best known for his photography and was also an established fashion and portrait photographer. Man Ray is also known for his work with photograms, which he called "rayographs" in relation to himself.

Hieronimus Bosch (1450 – 1516) was a Dutch/Netherlandish painter from Brabant. His work, generally oil on oak wood, mainly contains fantastic illustrations of religious concepts and narratives. Within his lifetime his work was collected in the Netherlands, Austria, and Spain, and widely copied, especially his macabre and nightmarish depictions of hell.

Toyen - Marie Čermínová (born in 1902, in Prague – died in 1980, in Paris), was a Czech painter, drafter, and illustrator and a member of the surrealist movement. She left the family home at sixteen. Toyen joined the Czech avant-garde Devětsil group in 1923 and exhibited with them. The group had strong international connections, especially but not only to French culture.

André Masson - André-Aimé-René Masson (1896 – 1987) was a French artist associated with surrealism, and he was one of the most enthusiastic employers of automatic drawing, making a number of automatic works in pen and ink. 

Rene Magritte, René François Ghislain Magritte (1898-1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. He created witty and thought-provoking images. He presented ordinary objects in an unusual context. His works are known for questioning the the perception of reality.

Dora Maar, real name - Henriette Theodora Markovitch (1907 – 1997), was a French photographer, painter, and poet. Pablo Picasso partner and his muse, she was depicted on many of his paintings. 

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Happy Heavenly Birthday to Man Ray (1890-1976), the pioneer of visual art and “found objects.” He was born in American but spent most of his career in Paris, becoming an informal contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements surrounding him. His career intersected with Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, and a hit list of actors, artists, dancers, filmmakers, and musicians. Despite Ray tagging himself as “just a painter,” he produced major works in a variety of media and is best known for his pioneering photography—specially fashion and portrait photography. He is also noted for his work with photograms (photographic images made not with a camera but with light exposure) which he called “Rayographs.” In the 1920s he directed and appeared in a number of avant-garde films, including the 1924 urban fantasy ENTR’ACTE (directed by René Clair). Ray appears with Frances Picabia, playing chess on a chessboard that transforms into a city center with busses and cars. I used this scene in a video for my song “It’s In Your Hands,” with music that quotes heavily from Erik Satie (who also appeared in ENTR’ACTE). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxReq4Xr-U8 Meanwhile, thank you Man for getting us to see the art in everything.

#manray #birthday #visualart #foundobjects #foundthings #Paris #dadaism #surrealism #salvadordali #marcelduchamp #pablopicasso #painter #photography #photogram #rayograph #avantgarde #reneclair #francespicabia #eriksatie #entracte #art #johnnyjblair #gnosseinnes

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Stunning Photography by Man Ray in the 1920s and ’30s

Stunning portrait photography by Man Ray in the 1920s and 1930s

Born 1890 as Emmanuel Radnitzky in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, American visual artist Man Ray spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal.

Portrait of André Breton, 1922

Ray produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above all. He was best known for his photography, and he was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer.

Portrait of Dora Maar, 1936

Man Ray is also noted for his work with photograms, which he called “rayographs” in reference to himself. He died in Paris in 1976 from a lung infection at the age of 86.

Observatory Time - The Lovers, 1936

Helen and a friend, 1931

Glass Tears, 1932

Double Exposure, 1934

(Nude) Anatomy, 1934

Silhouette of Lee Miller, 1930

Jambes dans un cadre, 1930

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Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky; August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. He produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above all. He was best known for his photography, and he was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. Man Ray is also noted for his work with photograms, which he called "rayographs" in reference to himself.

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Man Ray - Dust Breeding

Man Ray’s ‘Dust Breeding’ (1920) is a close up photograph of the buildup of dust on the sieves of the glass from one of Marcel Duchamp’s ready-mades. The photo captures the passage of time through the accumulation of dust on a surface. The photograph was taken with a two-hour-long exposure to capture the tiniest details.

Emmanuel Radnitzky (27 August 1890-18 November 1976) was an American visual artist who contributed greatly to the DADA and Surrealism movements. He worked freely amongst mediums but found most pleasure painting, despite being most famous for his influential photography. Born in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Russian Jewish immigrants. His family moved to Brooklyn, NY in early 1912 where he chose to change his name to Man Ray alongside the rest of his family to avoid discrimination. Despite being offered a scholarship to study architecture, Man Ray chose to pursue a career in art. His friendship with Duchamp and rise of Dadaism meant he moved away from traditional methods of painting.

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Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky, August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris.

Never shy of different artistic mediums Man Ray was also a photographer. Best known for his involvement in the surrealist movement, Man Ray enjoyed dressing up for his portraits. Like many other people on our list, he also dressed up as a woman.

Additionally he made sure not to overlap mediums by only photographing things he did not wish to paint. He spent most of his career in Paris and considered himself a painter above all things.

Reference

Man Ray, photographed at the Théâtre de la Gaîté-Montparnasse exhibition in Paris, June 16, 1934, photograph, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Ray#/media/File%3AMan_Ray_1934.jpg

Man Ray, Noire et blanche, 1926, photograph, https://blog.artsper.com/en/lifestyle/5-things-to-know-about-man-ray/

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Photographer4: Man Ray

Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky 1890–1976) was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in France. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. He produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above all. He was best known for his photography, and he was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. Man Ray is also noted for his work with photograms, which he called “rayographs” in reference to himself.

Man Ray. Self-Portrait. 1931. https://www.moma.org/artists/3716

Man Ray. Sleeping Woman. Portrait Photography. 1929. https://www.moma.org/collection/works/46870

Man Ray. Rayograph. Portrait Photography. 1922. https://www.moma.org/artists/3716

Man Ray. Woman with Long Hair. Portrait Photography. 1929 https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/1880/man-ray-self-portrait

Man Ray. Portrait Photography. n.d. https://artpil.com/man-ray/

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surrealism research

 Surrealism officially began with Andre Bretons surrealist manifesto released in 1924, Andre is a prominent figure in the dada movement credited to many creative and interesting pieces of surrealist art content. Although he is credited as the true beginning there was a movement in 1917 inspired by the paintings of artist Giorgio De Chirico who capture street scenes with a sort of hallucinogenic feeling. After 1917 chirico gave up on this style but his work was never forgotten by surrealist artists through the german Dadaist Man Ernst calling attention to them around 1922 leading to a lot of collage surrealism work to be produced at this time by him and other artists.

“according to the oxford dictionary Surrealism is a 20th century Avant-Garde movement in art and literature which sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind” essentially it encouraged artists to delve deep into 

notable surrealist artists include Man Ray,  an American visual artist who live in paris and who operated around the years of 1922 to his death in 1976 he is credited as one of the spear heads of the dada surrealist movement.

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish artist who operated around 1890 to his death in 1973, Picasso is notable as one of the most influential artists ever, he is credited with being the figurehead of the cubism art movement being the usual example people will point too.

 the uncanny is a style of art that falls under surrealism it relates with taking two objects that don’t belong together and combining them to create a new object it leaves the viewer with an uneasy (uncanny) feeling about the object it is reported the first use of the term was by Ernst Jentsch in his essay “on the psychology of the uncanny”, 1906 he describes it as something new and unknown that can often be seen as negative at first. Famous Psychologist Sigmund Freud threw his cigar in the ring and put forward a new take on the word describing it as something familiar but still unknown.  

Man Ray is a notable artist in the field of the uncanny for his art piece known as the gift 1921

The piece features a sculpted flat iron with a row of 14 nails going down on the flat end, Man rays ability to take an everyday object and create an almost unameable object one he even himself decided to not name and istead gift it the cryptic title of “the gift” shows his understanding of the surrealist movement and why he was one of the pioneers there’s something inherently uncomforablte with the deisgn of the flat iron its just plain wrong.

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Illusion - Research Into Uncanny

At what time did Uncanny begin?

The term “Uncanny” was first used in an essay on the Psychology of the Uncanny 1906 written by German psychiatrist Ernst Jentsch, he described it as something new and unknown that can often be seen as negative at first. An essay written in 1919 by Sigmund Freud further refined the definition down to something that looks familiar and alien at the same time.

What is The Uncanny?

The term Uncanny is used in art to describe something that gives of a strange or anxious feeling that may be created by the placement of strange and uncommon objects in unusual places or contexts.

Who are some of the most well-known artists?

Damien Hirst (1965 -) is a British artist focusing on creating uncanny works of art in many different mediums including sculptures, paintings, and drawings. Some of his most famous works of art are animals suspended in a formaldehyde solution in display cases made of sleet and glass.

Mother and Child (Divided) - Damien Hirst

Man Ray (1890 - 1976) was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris creating photograms but which he dubbed “rayographs” and is considered as the pioneer of Surrealist photography. He was also the very first artist whose images were more valuable to collectors than his artistic work.

Gift - Man Ray