Modern Art

I personally liked the film Un Chien Andalou. It started out with a very disturbing scene of a man sharpening his razor and cutting through the eye of a women. This had many people, including me wincing. The whole film was filled with obscure imagery and scenarios. I could not anticipate what the next scene was going to with hold. There was a also a lot of symbolism hidden that most people would not catch on there first time watching. My favorite weird part of the film were when the ants were coming out of the mans hand. It was very off putting.

Un Chien Andalou is a short film by Spanish director Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalí in 1929. This film was released during Surrealism and consisted of bizarre circumstances over a duration of 20 minutes. Through the bizarreness there are underlying themes and symbols. For instance, the box is the only symbol that is consistent and reoccurs in this films entirety. The ants are symbolic since they resemble the Catholic religion and Jesus being nailed to the cross. The ants also appear in Salvador Dalí's paintings-including the one above. The hands are also repeated and showed many instances were they are used-both sexually and painfully. There was a constant feeling of guilt that was portrayed. There are many risky and promiscuous scenes. When the man is assaulting the woman by touching her breast this resembles lust and how easy humans give into sexual actions. The woman appears androgynous which breaks gender norms and sexuality. I believe this short film is- in a way- a ...

Salvador Dali was a very weird guy from what I can understand. Even though I've only watched " Un Chien Andalou " once, it seemed very obvious that this man could care less what other people thought of his art. The film had a variety of different scenes in which many things were going on, including the slicing of a woman's eye, the dragging of pianos with priest and donkeys, crossdressing men, or even the character whose hand had a hole filled with ants. I think that the overall project was successful in its attempt to turn the bourgeois society of Paris at the time upside-down. I personally believe that it was Dali's goal to release this film and intentionally confuse the public, making it as illogical, irrational, and mysterious as possible.

Un chien andalou was a silent black and white film by  director Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalí. My reaction to this film at first was that it was very strange and disturbing. Although I did not like this short film it had a lot of symbolism in it including the box that was a constant throughout the entire film. Other forms of symbolism was when the man had a hole in his hand while the ants were crawling on him and also when he was pulling the piano with the dead donkeys on them and the 2 priests attached to the strings as well. Overall this film was very strange and confusing at times but showed many pieces of artwork like the bare women's back. 

Un Chien Andalou film was very creepy.  With in the film there was a lot of symbolic things, for instance the guilt  of your parents, he ants in the hand was a french term meaning itching to kill, the priests were religion and that guilt.  So this film was very symbolic, the main item that was constant through out the whole film was the box.  

Title:  "Jose Roosevelt" Painted By: Salvador Dali The Film "Un Chien Andalou" (1929) was a short film by Luis Bunuel, a Spanish director. This film relates to the surrealism art era consisting of unnatural or irrational juxtapositions and combinations. This film reflected surrealism by using juxtaposing images. My reaction to the film "Un Chien Andalou"   was that it was very strange from any other movie I've seen and I am a film major so I've seen a lot of films before. But, this was by far the weirdest one ever. I found this movie to be odd because of many different factors that went into the film. The first being that one object would change into another. For example, the women arm pit hair changed into grass. Another example, is when the women would change from being clothed to nude. The movie also had a lot of symbols such as the ants being a reoccurring symbol in the film that is also seen in Dali paintings, the whole in the hand sy...

Un chien andalou I thought the video was really weird. Apparently  The French phrase "ants in the palms" (which means that someone is "itching" to kill) is shown literally. A man pulls a piano along with the tablets of the Ten Commandments and a dead donkey towards the woman he's itching to kill. A shot of differently striped objects is repeatedly used to connect scenes. In the  living room, Bizarre desires and perpetually appealing sexual frustrations depicting sensual and intense surreal scenes; there is a dynamic struggle for dominance in this film. The sliced eyeball is a surprising symbol of violence.  The dead donkeys, the last items impeding the sexual assault, represent the close association that Buñuel found between sexuality and death. There are so much bizarre actions that took me by surprise. I personality was not a fan though appreciated the creative aspect of this art work.