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SurrealismLauren Callegari
Marah Maaita
What is Surrealism?
• An art movement where an artists goes into their subconscious to inspire their work.
• The artists wanted to expose the inner world of sexuality, desire, and violence
How do you know if it is surreal?
• Out of place objects (juxtaposition)
• Unreal scenes
• Normal subjects acting abnormal
• Fantasy creatures
Time Transfixed by: Magritte
The Listening Room by: Magritte
Not To Be Reproduced by: Magritte The Elephant Celebes by: Ernst
Freud-Influencer (1856-1939)
• Developed psychological theories on free association, dream analysis, and the unconscious mind.
• He helped artists to be able to go into their unconscious mind.
Breton-Founder (1896-1966)
• Studied Freud's theories and applied it to his art.
• Started the surrealism movement in 1924.
Dadaism Influence
• Started after World War I
• “Anti- art” or “nonart”
• Went against traditional art
• Violent, had an attitude against war, protest, and disgust of life
• Later it got to nonconformity, became dead
The root of surrealism, but surrealism is less violent
L.H.O.O.Q. by Marcel Duchamp, he added a mustache and goatee to the Mona Lisa to shift from the traditional art works
Types
• Automatists: focused more on feelings and less on analyzing. Felt that the pictures should not be burdened with “meaning”.
• Veristics: allow images of the subconscious to emerge so they could be understood.
Technique
• Frottage: put paper on a surface and rub over it to get the texture
• Grattage: scratching textures into painted surfaces.
• Decalcomania: wet paint is pressed onto a painting and then removed.
Max Ernst (1891-1976)
• Invented frottage
• His work focuses on dream imagery, eroticism, symbolism, and politics.
• Used illusion and abstract
The Elephant Celebes
The Teetering Woman
Monument To The Birds
The Angel of Hearth And Home
Joan Miro (1893-1983)
• His work was borderline abstract
• Childlike quality to his work
• Credited as the founder of automatism
Carnival of Harlequin
The Tilled Field
Catalan Landscape (The Hunter)
Still Life with Old Shoe
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
• Used hallucinatory characters
• Some of his work included sexual figures
• Colorful personality
The Matador
The Persistence Of Memory
Apparition Of A Face And A Fruit Dish On A Beach
Sleep
Rene Magritte (1898-1967)
• Uses everyday images
• It is suspected that he hides the faces in his work because his mom was found dead with her dress covering her face.
The Treachery of Images
Not To Be Reproduced
The Lovers
The Son of Man
Citations • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Transfixed
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Listening_Room
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_to_be_Reproduced
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elephant_Celebes
• http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2011/10/13/closing-the-gap-max-ernst-through-the-lens-of-the-lower-east-side/
• http://karskaya.com/?page_id=12&language=fr
• http://classes.yale.edu/fractals/panorama/art/decalcomania/decalcomania.html
• http://joshuaabelow.blogspot.com/2011/09/equivocal-woman-teetering-woman-1923.html
• http://www.actingoutpolitics.com/ernst-monument-to-birds/
• http://thebrainpolice.blogspot.com/2010_07_01_archive.html
• http://www.students.sbc.edu/evans06/presentation.htm
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• http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/rene-magritte/son-of-man-1964
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