Meaning of subrealism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An artistic movement that seeks to explore the basis of perception.
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2. The artistic exploration of perverse and unpleasant subject matter.
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3. An attitude toward life that lacks genuine engagement or meaning.
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Examples

“The infection of Surrealism (subrealism) in the painter's and sculptor's art naturally found its way into the practice of the most universal of the arts.”

“But as the development of cubism and other tendencies shows, contemporary art tends to slip away into antirealist abstraction, subrealism and subjectivist creationism, obeying no laws but its own.”

“[…] what André Breton called a higher reality—Surrealism. Herbert Read, ironically, called it Superrealism. I would like to suggest that it is a reality of depth, not height, thus—Subrealism. The sound and light of every painter is ultimately this kind, an intensity and unity that demands the courage to dig, the tenacity to cover the distance, and the poetry to bring it to terms.”

“Give up surrealism that only nourishes subrealism; the two of them, along with the so-called "natural," have got a dubious stench of urinals and churches.”

“Whereas surrealism sought to transcend reality from above, 'subrealism' sought to 'dive through the bottom of reality.' The three artists' activities in Shimomaruko were based on this idea.”

“The kibyōshi picture is a kind of visual paradox in this sense, presenting the reader with the spectacle of subrealism in its sketchiness and hyperrealism in its obsessive attention to trivia drawn from everyday life.”

“While we wait for the necessary publication of a book about "subrealism" in the cinema, almost entirely devoted to French cinema, with an additional chapter on neo-subrealism , Shoot the Piano Player already presents us with a repertoire sufficiently stocked with the characteristic traits of the new school.”

“Thus the fight between socialist realism and Gulag subrealism was not a fight for a dominant artistic method or aesthetic principle, nor even for an adequate epistemological approach, but a fight for the true communist ontology.”

“But Sade's ethnographic subrealism exceeds Marx's historical analysis, supplementing Marx's theoretical enterprise with a monstrous form of critical literary engagement.”

“For the avant-garde poet and critic Juan Larrea, the inclination toward the low is approached as a “subrealism” (1944, 89).”

“But our creative political vision of 150 years ago had so deteriorated through a century of short-time efficiency and subrealism, that people did not realize how great the moment was.”

“Alas! after that labor of obstinate subrealism, the mind has not become more alert and more alive, but more weary and disenchanted.”

“The inward-looking approach closes itself up in the classroom and misses the creative energy of mediation which achieves a higher level of reflection, not more exclusive and rigid (as in 'subrealism'), but more encompassing and complete.”

“'It takes a great act of courage', he suggests, 'to break out of what is usually demanded: effective subrealism.”

“Instead, many of our youth of today's generation look for solace in the subrealism of an eternally recurring hedonism.”

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