Super-Realism and Assemblage

Abstract

One is in the habit of thinking that art assemblies arose at the beginning of the 20th century at the hands of Picasso, the constructivists, Dadaists and Surrealists, but it is easy to verify the existence of significant assemblies in different times and cultures: stories relied on juxtaposed images, hybrid beings composed of parts of different beings, objects with human or animal legs, which leads us to suspect that assembly is not a recent way of representation, but an original and universal way that survives today. The thesis that is defended here is very simple: man produces assemblies because the brain gives sense to things by mounting different images. In other words, the forms of the assembly, ancient and modern, hand-crafted and artistic, reflect the original way in which the brain produces meanings, the original way of imagination.