André Breton was a French writer, poet, and surrealist theorist, and is best known as the main founder of Surrealism. His writings include the Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as pure psychic automatism. So strong is the belief in life, in what is most fragile in life – real life, I mean – that in the end this belief is lost. Man, that inveterate dreamer, daily...

A representation of the effect on individuality within the paralysed surreal society of Bunuel’s L’age D’or. (1930) It was Bunuel and Dali’s utter disdain of the Church that actually led the film to be banned for 49 years (released again in 1979). The absurd sacrament that proclaimed that, no matter how much in love a couple are, sex before marriage must always be forbidden....

The Eleks Design web site could very well pass as one of best designed sites online today. The attention to details is simply amazing and even after staring at their site for tens of minutes at a time, you still find out something new. The imagination of the designer(s) behind this project is simply astonishing. The quality of the elements combining to create such an exquisite atmosphere is again...

Bohuslav Martinů’s own words: The artist is always searching for the meaning of life, his own and that of mankind, searching for truth. A system of uncertainty has entered our daily life. The pressures of mechanisation and uniformity to which it is subject call for protest and the artist has only one means of expressing this, by music. What made us choose Bohuslav Martinů to feature in our...

Not only are her works so inspiring that you seem to be reading a whole novel while looking at a single one but they remain engraved in your mind long after you have seen them and that is a sign of a true photographic masterpiece. I was born in Romania in 1982. I grew up painting and drawing, and then I betrayed images for words when I went to university to study Journalism. I am grateful to that...

Surrealism is the term that defines the artistic movement that proclaims a complete freedom of expression, started by André Breton at the beginning of the 1920s and later developed especially in the third and fourth decade of the last century. Surrealism mostly depicted absolute irrational reality combining fantastic imagination with strange improvisations and although it began almost 9o years ago,...

The Literature Section of MonDaily has two features for this week’s issue. The very known book of Lauren Weisberger, The Devil Wears Prada and an anonymous essay about the connections between art, clothing and fashion. Andrea Sachs, the main character of the book, a young girl coming from a small town and a fresh graduate of a big university from the east coast, succeeds in getting the dream job...

The MonDaily Fashion issue has featured in its Film Section a certain work of a certain creative collective from the Netherlands called Imaginary Creatures. We are sure than when you shall read the name of the film made by them, you will ask yourselves why hasn’t this film been featured in the previous MonDaily issue. To answer that question of yours you will have to click here. After you have...

In a business like Fashion, everybody involved is looking to get that extra thing that will attract a potential buyer to his products instead of a rival’s. Today, there is no important business that has not made itself present online as well. The competition in Fashion is enormous and this, combined with the fact that most of the top designers have a somehow limited target – especially due...

We started out with the idea that we had two options for Fashion Music: that of fashionable, commercial music and that of music played at fashion shows. Our choice: both. As we have said in our introductory article, a lot of work is put in creating the perfect setting for a fashion show. A perfect setting cannot lack a background sound that is essential for creating the right mood and it is a known...