Hans Bellmer

HARRY CLARKE

Tales Of Mystery And Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe

Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

THE POWER OF THE SUN

The sun is finally out, which means a long awaited solar session.

Solar toking is a term that refers to using a magnifying lens or fresnel lens to ignite your herb. By positioning the lens at the right spot between the bowl and the sun, you can smoke your mary-jane without inhaling the butane chemicals associated with lighters.

Why smoke this way?

1. It burns clean so you are not inhaling any butane chemicals that you normally would with a lighter.

2. You get green hits up to the last toke. The small area that is ignited by a beam of light allows you to continuously inhale fresh material.

3. Smoking this way is pure and gives you a clean taste that is free from butane chemicals or flint smoke.

4. There is no wasted material. A bowl smoked with the solar method goes much further due to the fact that you are not torching the entire bowl with a huge flame.

5. With practice you can produce a similar effect to vaporizing without burning the material. By controlling the focus of the light, the bowl can be heated up releasing essential vapors.

I recommend that everyone smoke this way.

Unica Zürn

Orakel Und Spektakel

(1960 unpublished illustrated manuscript)

Unica Zürn (1916–1970) was a German author and painter as well as the partner and model of the surrealist, Hans Bellmer. She is remembered for her works of anagram poetry and exhibitions of automatic drawing. Automatic drawing (distinguished from drawn expression of mediums) was developed by the surrealists as a means of expressing the subconscious. In automatic drawing, the hand is allowed to move randomly across the paper. In applying chance and accident to mark-making, drawing is to a large extent freed of rational control. Therefore, the drawing produced may be attributed in part to the subconscious and may reveal something of the psyche which would otherwise be repressed. Examples of automatic drawing were produced by mediums and practitioners of the psychic arts. It was thought by some spiritualists to be a spirit control that was producing the drawing while physically taking control of the medium's body.

AVANT-GARDE ART MOVEMENTS

Avant-garde in French means "advance guard" or "vanguard." The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics. Avant-garde represents a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo, primarily in the cultural realm. Avant-garde art movements include:

Abstract Expressionism
Angry Penguins (Australian Modernists)
Archigram
Ars Subtilior
Art Nouveau
Asemic Writing
Cinema Pur
COBRA
Conceptual Art
Constructivism
Cubism
Dada
De Stijl
Dogme 95
Drop Art
Electronic Art Music
Epic Theatre
Expressionism
Fauvism
Flarf
Fluxus
Free Jazz
Futurism
Impressionism
Incoherents
Industrial Music
Krautrock
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
Lettrisme
Lyrical Abstraction
Mail Art
Minimal Art (Minimalism)
Musique Concrète
Neo-Dada
Neoism
Neoteroi
Neue Slowenische Kunst
Noise Music
No Wave
Pop Art
Post-Rock
Postminimalism
Primitivism
Progressive Rock
Rock In Opposition (RIO)
Situationist International
Social Realism
Space Music
Suprematism
Surrealism
Symbolism
Theatre Of Cruelty

I'll be making a lot of posts about the artists and their works that come from these movements.