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”