Surrealism An art movement which began in the 1920’s that used dreamlike or fantasy images as its...

Surrealism

An art movement which began in the 1920’s that

used dreamlike or fantasy images as its subject

matter.

• Exotic Jungle Scene• Henri Rousseau (1844-1910)

• “Tropical Forest with Monkeys”

• Max Ernst (1891-1976)• “Eye of Silence”

Techniques for Creating a Surrealist Picture:

• Transformation• Juxtaposition• Dislocation• Levitation• Scale

Transformation• Changing an object’s characteristics

• Salvador Dali (1904-1989)• Considered in the “Father” of Surrealism

• “The Persistence of Memory”

• Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)• “The Little Deer”• Mexican Painter

• Created a lot of self-portraits

Juxtaposition

• Putting two objects side by side, that repeat the same form but in different substances.

• Magritte “Le Belle Societe”

• Magritte “The Human Condition”

Dislocation• Putting an object in a place where it

normally wouldn’t belong.

• Rene Magritte • (1898-1967)• French Surrealist• “Time Transfixed”• Often showed

clouds • in his work

• Magritte “The Portrait”

• Magritte “The False Mirror”

Levitation• Objects that float that usually do

not.

• Dali “Still Life Fast Moving”

• Magritte, “Golconda”

Scale• Changing the object’s size, so that it

becomes out of proportion to its environment.

• Dali “Personal Values”