Andre Breton
Yesterday, I quoted a piece of Glisaine Wood’s curatorial text at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Surreal Things exhibit. The term ‘convulsive beauty’ was something I wanted to clarify a bit for myself. However, a little research proved that the term is as intangible as Surrealist logic/poetry. Instead of trying to pin convulsive beauty down to a single reductive concrete meaning I offer a reference to it from Breton’s 1928 novel Nadja:
“Beauty is like a train that ceaselessly roars out of the Gare de Lyon and which I know will never leave, which has not left. It consists of jolts and shocks, many of which do not have much importance, but which we know are destined to produce one Shock, which does…The human heart, beautiful as a seismograph…Beauty will be CONVULSIVE or will not be at all.”
— André Breton (Nadja)
I believe in neuro-diversity. This show re-affirmed that not everyone operates through academic output. Some people are more fractured/less a to b/more ebbing and phasing in strings of expression. Loved this blog
Nina, you are really smart, i wouldn’t have suspected this had been great some years ago then again its interesting the way time evolves the way you perceive, many thanks with regard to the article it is actually pleasant to start reading some thing intelligent once in a while instead of the common rubbish mascarading as blogs on the web
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