R.S.Beal (MusicSureal©) Experimental Surrealist Music 1986-2009
R.S. Beal 'Tanguyian Derivation' Oil
- Yves Tanguy's desolate, bio-mechanical and mineralized, fossil-scapes have a musical quality often more associated with the first generation 'abstractist' Surrealists, such as Miro and Arp-
the artist began experimenting with musical instruments, sound effects and melody in early 1986. Breton was known to have hated music.
The artist began experimenting with experimental sounds, rhythms, scales, nuances and melodies in 1986, utilitizing special effects peddles, distortion, wah and echo boxes and 11 different instruments. Utilizing traditional scales with non-traditional, the available cd's consist of flute, electric piano (Korg) and electric guitar digitally altered and enhanced. They were designed primarily for the artist and/or other Surrealists artists tired of listening to traditional rock and jazz music while working and for motivating a type of musical sound bio-feedback for visual arts in order to 'aggitate' the imagination and provide visual imagery, while painting. The artist is formally trained in 'VISUAL arts' and MusicSureal TM(Surrealist Musics) are original Surrealist creations as an extension of the visual art of R.S. Beal. 'I am not a musician that experiments with 'Surrealist music' but rather a visual artist that creates original surrealist compositions in subconscious melodies as an extension of visual mindscapes. I try to actually create a kind of 'simultaneous sound afterimage' similar to induced simultaneous color afterimage's. The artist is a Surrealist painter that creates original surrealist music rather than a 'musician' that experiments with Surrealist Music. MusicSureal was an accepted entry in the International Surrealist/Visionary 'Wah' BraveDestiny show in N.Y., Sept. 2003
© 'The Death of Dance' Playtime: One Hour Stereo ($10.95)ShippingPaid
© 'EggHead I' and EggHead II (Stereo) PlayTime: OneHour 15 tracks Korg, Guitar, Flute, etc. Zurich DADAISM 'Bruitism': The 1916-19 Zurich Dadists initiated 'Bruitism (Noise-Music, from le bruit-noise-as in le concert bruitiste, NOISE-Music Effects), simultaneity, and chance. While Zurich Dada was primarily a literary manifestation, with ideological roots in the poetry of Arthur Rimbaud and Guillaume Apollinaire, they made an intense critical re-examination of the traditions, premises, rules, logical bases, even the concepts of order, coherence, melody and beauty that had guided the arts and tonal rhythms throughout history. Their frenzied Music-Noise poetry readings often caused riots and a corresponding 'frenzied reaction' in the audience. For the Dadaist, ART was NOT to be guided by stylistic innovations and movements or isms . . . but was to be intuitive, natural and emotive. N. Cage, N.Y., later took up some of the basic premises of Dada Bruitism in Music-Sound and chance effects. MusicSurealTM is an extension of the original Surrealist/Dada Music of Bruitism.
R.S. Beal "Death Judging" (Draped Death) Oil
- Death Judging will appear on Sascha Beselt's new music CD LABEL (founder of pervasive German Underground Death Metal group 'Mandatory'). Beselt's DeathMetal cd (and Death Judging) will also be available as a music poster and PROMO t-shirts in late 2009 or early 2010 - Watch for them, along with Beselts new 'DeathMetal' cd. Sascha Beselt also experiments with Jazz-Fusion, his cd's are a common occurence in underground online labels.
R.S. Beal 'WonderLand' 40 by 30" 1988
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The Tragedy of an affluent society is that art itself, has been so drummed out of each individual and child by the age of four and that by adolescent, the education system has so totally conditioned out the innate sense of art, that it's now impossible for ANYONE (either the common layman or the so-called 'expert') to tell if it's a masterwork or the product of trickery, wishful thinking, fakery and overt hype. The result is that the serious artist simply gives up.
Surrealism . . . it is indifferent to "techniques" and has always scorned aesthetics. It has always been something much more than an "art" or "literary" movement. As a subversive outlook and state of mind it existed long before it had a name, and it has persisted as a revolutionary force long after all the avant-gardes have joined the Establishment. Quote from R. (Chicago group)
Also See: About SURREALISM - Commentary R.S.Beal at Poetics and Musicsureal (scroll to commentary-offsite at R.S. Beal SURREALISM2005)
SURREALISM 'Art History' Original Movement 1924-1955 (offsite)
R.S. Beal 'Portrait of Dean Christianson' Oil 2005
Private Collection
For those familar with the Universal in the Particular . . . a remanent of 'Hemingway's old man of the sea. A portrait of disease, decay and age in strength and nobility.
R.S. Beal 'Portrait of DALI' Oil 24 by 16" 1996
Dali's original goat hoof and Greco-Iberian headdress (Lady of Elche) have remained, while the porportions have been altered - the 'Picasso' Logo has been removed, along with the mandelin-spoon and silly red carnation, the painting now being a portrait of Dali, instead of Picasso . . . from Salvador Dali's: Portrait of Picasso, 1947
R.S. Beal 'Shades of Pale Death' (DETAIL)
Oil 36 by 48" (Full View)
View 'Shades of Death' and other Surrealist works at Beal-Surrealism, including the artist working in the studio on 'Shade's' and additional studies and cartoons (perspective grid) for 'Shades of Death'. During the French Revolution it was common for the proletariat under-classes (serfs) to remove the heads of the aristocratic ruling class (kings) from their kingly statues, as well as from their personages. At the 'Gallery of Kings', in France, all Gothic statuettes were be-headed by cannon ball blasts and their 'heads' are now preserved at the 'Muse de Cluny', after being found and unearthed by a brick mason. Civilization has really not 'progressed' all that far since the 16th-17th Century, albeit there are MORE I-pods and SUV's (and needless to say, considerably more than needed) . . .
R.S. Beal 'From Tanguy - untitled' 16 by 20" 2005
Sub-Title: Tomorrow - Misesteem (Oil on Canvas)
Yves Tanguy - Wikipedia: Offsite (1900-1955), submitted only to the promptings of the forms on the canvas and often painted upside down. His initial (early) technique was, like Rene Magritte's, somewhat pedestrian, albeit he later developed his mental configurations with exactitude, extreme clarity and precision of detail, making his discoveries entirely his own.
YVES TANGUY and 'Indefinite Indivisiblity' (Fusion-Offsite) Compare: 'Tomorrow - Demain' Oil on Canvas / 1938 / Yves Tanguy
R.S. Beal 'Aftermath' Oil 1995-96
(from Yves Tanguy - Slowly towards the North - 1941
After the extensive thefts of 1986-88, which destroyed the artists 20 year Oeuvre, he ceased painting and focused primarily only on music for years, ultimately rebuilding an art studio in 1995-96. With little materials, he worked on Tanguyian appropriations until returning to his own style. He continues to paint works after and in homage to Yves Tanguy in an attempt to take Tanguy's Mineralized-Mechanico landscapes a step further.
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R.S. Beal 'The Abides of Tomorrows Past' Oil 2009-10
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R.S. Beal and Work Showcased in 'Urban Tulsa' 12/1/2005 - 12/7/2005
Vol. 15 Issue 25. - Pick up a copy or past issue (Subscription) or order from 'Urban Tulsa' - View Frontispiece or Read Text article (Delving into the Sureal) by Gretchen Collins. ©
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Inclusion (Inventions of Culture) in Hardback publication Volumn 3 Artbuzz Collectors Edition 2010
Urban Tulsa Arts Newspaper (Art and Music)
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Audio Samples MusicSureal© Experimental Surrealist Music
CrypticSureal II (Instrumental Only) PlayTime: One hour stereo $11.95
If you like Surrealist Art and Surrealist 'master paintings' from that First Generation of Surrealist Artists, Yves Tanguy, Paul Delvaux, Matta, Magritte, etc., you might appreciate the Surrealist Music of R.S.Beal. While Andre Breton complained of his disdain for music in general, with the comment that 'sound' removes the 'mystery' from life, MusicSureal alters the unknown with a strange melodic sureal mystery.
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