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Surrealism

• Andre Breton

• Freud

• Andre Masson • Battle of Fishes, 1927

• Joan Miro

• The Hunter 1923-4• Harlequin’sCarnival 1925

Dutch Interiors II 1928 • Self Portrait 1937• Poetess 1940• Blue 1961

• Rene Magritte • The treachery of Images 1928-9• .

Breton

• “I believe in the future resolution of these two states , dream and reality , which are so seemingly contradictory into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality.

• Dictionary Definition: • Psychic automatism in its pure state by which

one proposes to express, verbally, or by other, means the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by thought , IN THE ABSENCE OF ANY CONTROL OF EXERCISED REASON, EXEMPT FROM ANY AESTHETIC OR MORAL CONCERN.

Surrealism

• Related to but different from DADA

• Manifesto created by Breton in 1924

• Freud

Automatism

Hallucination

Irrational thought associations

Dreams

EXQUISITE CORPSE

Two strands of surrealism

• Biomorphic

• Masson and miro

AND

• Realistic and recognizable

• Magritte and dali

ANDRE MASSON

Max Ernst, The Horde, 1927

Max Ernst, Surrealism and Painting, 1942

JOAN MIRO

• Catalan

• Spent time in paris

• But returned to native Spain a lot

• Influenced by cezanne, matisse, picasso

JOAN MIRO

HUNTER , 1923

Jean arp

Miro, harlequin’s carnival

Bosch, garden of delights

Van Steen, Dancing Cat’s lesson

Miro, dutch interiors II

Salvador dali

• Catalan

• Symbolizes above all others surrealism

• Mastered all techniques taught to him at he academy

• Freud

• Idolizes meissonnier and vermeer

• Paranoic-critical method

Slidelist

• DALI • Bread Basket 1920s• Accommodation of Desires

1929• Lugubrious Game 1929• The Great Masturbator 1929• Persistence of memory 1931• Spain 1930s• Crucifixion 1960s

• Paranoic-critical method

• Magritte

• Treachery of Images • Key of Dreams 1930s• Human Condition • Hegel’s Holiday • Sound Room • Castle of the Pyrenees 1959

Meissonier

Dali, The bread Basket

Accommodations of Desire, 1929

Dali. Lugubrious Game 1929

Dali, Persistence of Memory, 1931

Compare to Magritte’s painting

Dali, The great Masturbator, 1929

Dali, Spain

Dali, Crucifixion

Magritte

Magritte, treachery of images

Magritte, human condition

Key of dreams , magritte

Magritte, The son of Man 1946

MASSON, STREET MANNEQUIN, 1938

Magritte, Dangerous Liaisons, 1926

Leonora Carrington, self portrait, 1936

Remedios Varos, Mimesis. 1960

Leonor Fini, At ends of earth 1949

Remedios Varos, Harmony 1955

Frida and Diego, 1931