Utopias and Manifestos (group manifesto)

What is a Manifesto?
A manifesto is a statement written that openly views and presents future plans, thoughts and opinions of an individual or group on specific issues.

Manifesto of surrealism by Andre Breton (1924)
Surrealism is all about unrealistic, dreamland view of the world. Andre Breton's manifesto helps view its Utopia as an area where reality doesn't exist; distorted land, where dreams are more real than real, a place where wealth and poverty doesn't mean a thing, where he's still a new born and in reality a grown up, a "psychic automatism in pure state," is the recipe of a surrealists perfect world.

Cubism by D.J.Lingelbach
The cubists perfect world is an area where shapes, colours, and emotion exist, they view the world and look at it in many perspectives, their world is constructive and forth dimensional, an abstract world.

Dada manifesto by Tristan Tzara (1918)
The dada world is more of an "I don't Care" world, where vandalism knows no boundaries, where one's voice is heard. This is the type of world that shows that if an individual had to surpass it in reality they would be shot, well especially during that time, these days its more like something that is encouraged. Its utopia is full of rebellion, attracts journalists and artists mostly, Anti-bourgeois is the perfect word to describe Dada's ideal Utopia.

Bauhaus manifesto by Walter Gropius(1919)

The utopian world for the Bauhaus was a world of art being in a building that its ornamentation as the purpose of the visual arts. That the world of mere drawing and painting of draughtsmen  and applied artists must at long become a world that builds. to create the buildings for the future that would unite every discipline, architecture and sculpture and painting.

 De Stijl manifesto by Theo van Doesburg(1917)

The De Stijl movement was influenced by the Bauhaus but their views where different the utopian world for them was to see reality in all the produced. They didn't depict nature in its natural appearance. they were the founders of Plastic art  who believed in the reformation of art and culture to eradicate obstacles. They have eradicated all which blocks pure artistic expression, the ultimate consequence of all concepts of art.

Personally, the Tv show gossip girl that has come to grow on me portrays a world of the young, modern and rich, their world is manipulated by gossip, love, friendship but mostly gossip defines and moods their scenery and so does it ruin them.

When going through Facebook, the new generation easily gets bored and as a result you find teenagers  talking about alcohol and drugs and most of them feed on drama. Everyone is wanting the next best thing, for instance technology, music is an important essence, influences how they feel or portray. It's a rebellious generation, they could be surrealists or Dadaists. Christianity also plays a huge role in the social world more than other religions, but one can see this generation is also looking for something to believe in, they thirst for belonging.

Quinette Martins and Endria Chipangula

As a group of two we have come up with our own manifesto which was inspired by our cultures,creativity, personalities, desire for success, believes and the manifestos we have discussed. For our manifesto we decided to to use quotes which we feel relate to use in the aspects that inspire us.

 
We blve tht a strng exterior is importnt to nvr show any signs of  weaknss but always of gr8 strngth. Tht whn the going gts tough we dnt get going.

Keeping our wrk direct and sr8 to the point and having designs of simplicity and no complications.

Self-confidence- Our fuel for achieving gr8er and beyond our imagination. Our daily neccesity and provider for fulfilling our ful potential. 

the receipt to achieving includes wrking hard and we know its one of its sweetest ingridients which makes the output sweeter.Nvr to burn our bridges with people  we wrk with, play with, and wrk for.

Nt evrythng in the wrld has to b changed bt enchanced &imprvd which is 1 of our principles. y fix it if its nt broken.

We cherish our minds as it brings us our cr8tivity and a perfect imagination wrld which we transl8 into our designs and bring to live thru illustrations, story telling, personality, humour, and imprtantly our personal identity and mark in this wrld. wit so many possibilities it brings its definately a colourful masterpiece which emulates a palette wit millions of colours, shades and tints.

Failing is not part of our vocabulary, we make mistakes tht can be improved ad wht matters is the ability to be able to pick ourslvs up once we have had a minor fall.

Perseverance of self growth is essential our goal is nt to be jst gud but to become the bst tht we can become. 

The power of our success is in God and our minds, we feed our minds with positvity, courage, bravery, cr8tvity, self-love and imaginations of gr8 accomplishmnts.  

when we feel dwn and out we hold on to our knowledge of our potential, and our inner strength wisphers to us and lets knw tht thigs are going to get better. 

 lyk candi brngs joy to childrn aftr and injection frm the doctor it releases the painful memory. creativity does the same for us thru it we can forget our problems and bad situations tht we encounter.

 

As crea8tvs we cum up with ways to do things diffrntly and smartly. we stand out from the rest. challenge our slves to come up wit circular cre8tve ideas which would rotate from generation to generation. 

now we hav learnt the power behind taken action and wht it does to doubt it kills it, everytym we have thought we wouldnt b able to do a certain task once we have tried which lead to conquer and defeat of doubt.

The intensity of how much we blve in our dreams and making thm happn is crazi , brobdingnagian and immaculate with no believe of doubt or a possibility of them not coming thru. 

Matters of the heart affect us we belve in true lve the magical, unbelivable , mysterious feeling of lve the picture of it is clear in our mind and painted by our imagination and left in the hands of destiny. 

we know we blesed tru our families God has put us in them for a great reason. For the lve we recive is unconditionally and pure. family comes frst no matter what.

Action speaks louder thn wrds we doers, each day we live we work towards wrking our dreams thts our main purpose. looking from whr we strtd we defin8ly on the right track.