anna's writeup on freud

I have to admit, I was reluctantly reading through this, because I was really, really getting into painting this week.

The format is easier to go through, but at times there was still alot of information to take in.

What struck me most about Freud was that his ideas were radical particularly for the time, yet so much of his terminology is used today as everyday sayings. Freud's time saw many new changes. It seems he and Marx run parallel, in the sense both endured hardships and poverty, but it never deterred them from their beliefs.

The emergence of psychoanalysis had a huge impact on society as a whole. It would also have a strong impact in art, because the artist was now able to draw on the subconscious for subject matter. You can look at Expressionism, using color, texture, to express emotion. Later the Surrealists' exploration of the dream world and subconscious mind, and Abstract Expressionism. Freud made it possible for artist to explore a vastly different type of subject matter from previous generations.