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Surrealistic Stowing Method^©

 by

Mazhar Togrul

September 2003

Surrealists have described the objects in the unusual forms in their creations. But sometimes they have removed the objects from their natural environments and carried this objects into the confused, oneiric environments. Often strange, absurd objects and the realistic objects have being together in surrealist works.

For instance, Salvador Dali introduced the absurd objects together with the realistic objects into his paintings. In the following picture is an example from Dali.

Dali : The Lugubrious Game

Here is an other example from Yves Tanguy:

Tanguy : Tomorrow.Demain

In a word, especially in Dali’s and in many Surrealist’s paintings, the realistic objects are being together with the absurd objects in an imaginary atmosphere; but sometimes these absurd objects have played their role alone in a mystery environment, where there is no realistic image.

When the absurd objects are alone or together with the realistic objects in the surrealist works, they can be create an interactive collaboration between themselves, and this three dimensional object organization can be in a strong intensity, namely this object based complex structure can be stowed in a high density.

That is why, we can see, that can be defined a characteristic tendency; namely we see the signs of the formation of a new style in the Surrealism. In this formation we can find the important features of a new surrealistic method.

In this frame of mind, can be suggested a new surrealistic method.

We define this new method as the Surrealistic Stowing-Method.

We have presented the examples of this method in September 2003 in the Art Gallery of Taksim-Istanbul.

The following example name is “Nubian”:

Mazhar Togrul : Nubian

And the last example is "Symmetrical Chaos";

Mazhar Togrul : Symmetrical Chaos

We can see the stowed absurd objects in some paintings of Dali, but also we can see that all absurd objects are similar in the same study. For instance, in a work he used cones and in another work used balls. Below is an example for the cones:

Dali

But one of the important elements of the Surrealistic Stowing Method is the difference of all the absurd objects in a work. Below is an another example of the Surrealistic Stowing Method;

Mazhar Togrul : Black Hole