Information: - Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. The aim was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality". Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision, created strange creatures from everyday objects and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself. - The Hat Makes the Man ( 1920 ) is a collage by the German dadaist / surrealist Max Ernst . It is composed of cut out images of hats from catalogues linked by gouache and pencil outlines to create abstract anthropomorphic figures . There are inscriptions in ink that read '' seed - covered stacked - up man seedless waterformer ( ' edelformer ' ) well fitting nervous system also tightly fitting nerves ! ( the hat makes the man ) ( style is the tailor ) . '' The idea for this work began as a sculpture made from wooden hat molds . Ernst was an important figure in the dada movement , which often criticized the tastes of mainstream culture and depicted modern man as a conformist automaton . . - In art, watermedia is the general term for media that are distinguished from oil or other media by being diluted with water when used. Watermedia include watercolours, gouache and acrylic, amongst others. It is sometimes combined with other media, commonly collage. - Dextrins are a group of low-molecular-weight carbohydrates produced by the hydrolysis of starch or glycogen. Dextrins are mixtures of polymers of D-glucose units linked by -(14) or -(16) glycosidic bonds. - Gouache, body color, opaque watercolor, or guache, is one type of watermedia, paint consisting of pigment, water, a binding agent (usually dextrin or gum arabic), and sometimes additional inert material. Gouache is designed to be used with opaque methods of painting. The term, derived from the Italian "guazzo", also refers to paintings using this opaque method. - Collage (from the , "to glue") is a technique of an art production, primarily used in the visual arts, where the artwork is made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. - Art is a diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts (artworks), expressing the author's imaginative or technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power. In their most general form these activities include the production of works of art, the criticism of art, the study of the history of art, and the aesthetic dissemination of art. - Robert Alan "Bob" Ezrin (born March 25, 1949) is a Canadian music producer and keyboardist, best known for his work with Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, Kiss, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Peter Gabriel, and Phish. As of 2010, Ezrin's career in music had spanned four decades and his production work continued into the 21st century, with acts such as Deftones and Thirty Seconds to Mars. After co-founding interactive media company, 7th Level, in 1993, Ezrin has branched out into philanthropy and activism, with music also introduced into this realm of his life, underpinning projects such as Music Rising and Young Artists for Haiti. Ezrin is also involved in education, co-founding the Nimbus School of Recording Arts in 2009. - DaDa is the fifteenth studio album by Alice Cooper. It was originally released in September 1983, on the label Warner Bros.. "DaDa" would be Cooper's last album until his sober re-emergence in 1986 with the album "Constrictor". The album's theme is ambiguous, however, ongoing themes in the songs' lyrics suggest that the main character in question, Sonny, suffers from mental illness, resulting in the creation of many different personalities. The album alludes strongly to the dadaist movement: its cover was based on a painting by Salvador Dali titled "Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire". Produced by long-time collaborator Bob Ezrin, at the time his first production with Cooper in six years, "DaDa" was recorded at ESP Studios in Buttonville, Ontario, Canada. - Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spans over five decades. With his distinctive raspy voice and a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, deadly snakes, baby dolls, and dueling swords, Cooper is considered by music journalists and peers alike to be "The Godfather of Shock Rock". He has drawn equally from horror films, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a macabre and theatrical brand of rock designed to shock people. - Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali i Domenech, Marques de Dali de Pubol (11 May 190423 January 1989), known as Salvador Dali, was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain. - Max Ernst (2 April 1891 1 April 1976) was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism. - Gum arabic, also known as acacia gum, is a natural gum consisting of the hardened sap of various species of the acacia tree. Originally, gum arabic was collected from "Acacia nilotica" which was called the "Gum arabic tree"; in the present day, gum arabic is predominantly collected from two related species, namely "Acacia senegal" and "Vachellia (Acacia) seyal". Producers harvest the gum commercially from wild trees, mostly in Sudan (80%) and throughout the Sahel, from Senegal to Somaliathough it is historically cultivated in Arabia and West Asia. - Buttonville is a community named after the founder of the former farmlands, John Button, within the city of Markham in the west part of Unionville. About 30,000 residents live in the area. Rouge River is to the northeast and Buttonville Airport is directly west of the community Highway 404 is to the west with four interchanges and the nearest interchange with the Highway 407 Express Toll Route (ETR) is 2km south on Woodbine Avenue. The population live in the eastern, northeastern and the northern parts while the industrial area of Markham is to the west and the south down to Steeles. The industrial area is home to many technology companies near the airport (which incidentally is the location of where weather reports are taken for the Weather Network). There is talk about renaming the community, the John Button Community after its founder and getting rid of its nickname Buttonville, since there has been lots of confusion between Unionville and the nickname Buttonville, which is also located in Unionville. - A pigment is a material that changes the color of reflected or transmitted light as the result of wavelength-selective absorption. This physical process differs from fluorescence, phosphorescence, and other forms of luminescence, in which a material emits light. - Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire (1940) is a painting by Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dali. The painting depicts a slave market, while a woman at a booth watches the people. A variety of people seem to make up the face of Voltaire, while the face seems to be positioned on an object to form a bust of Voltaire. Voltaire was a french writer and philosopher. What entity does 'the hat makes the man' has the relation 'instance of' with?
painting