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

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