"Un Chien Andalou"

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"Un Chien Andalou" is a film created by painter Salvadore Dali that encapsulates his idea of surrealist art. This paper offers an interpretation of "Un Chien Andalou" and looks at its contribution to the development of artistic ideas. The paper shows that the film, like Dali himself, contributed to all the arts since it inspired a more extensive application of distorting symbolism which caused traditional spatial and temporal dimensions to melt.

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"The principal aim of the Surrealist Movement was to open up the way to super-reality, fantasy, imagination and dream-like reality since its exponents believed that what really mattered was not the reasonably apparent connection among disparate events, but their subject matter and the effects they could have on the life of the individual. Due to the fact that people had been used to seeing and dealing with conventional forms of art, which had as an immediate result the belief in the representational function of art and the emotional impact impressionistic images could have on the beholder, the surrealists tried to shatter this conventional belief in order to make the transition to supra-reality possible. For this reason, they sought to connect images in an irrational order and present them in a distorted way. As a result, although most of the objects depicted may be identified as everyday objects taken from our familiar surroundings, the connection they form with each other and the message they are trying to communicate is open to question admitting no single explanation."

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