SURREALISMPopular Artists &

Compositional Techniques

• 1910-1920's Literary and Artistic movement.

• Poets, writers, and artists explored the subconscious mind and dream imagery that were heavily influenced by the psychological studies of Sigmund Freud.

André Breton was a French writer and poet. He is known best as the founder of Surrealism. His writings include the

first Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism"

The founder of the Metaphysical art movement, Giorgio de Chirico was an Italian (Born in Volos,Greece)surrealist painter, whose work implied a metaphysical questioning of reality.

(DE CHIRICO)

Salvador Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the

striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work.

His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of

Renaissance masters.

Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and

photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.

Rene Magritte was one of the most well known and famous surrealist painters of all time, yet it was not until his 50s, when he was finally able to reach some form of fame and recognition for his work.

(MAGRITTE)

SURREALISM TECHNIQUES think “PHYSICAL aspects”

Juxtaposition- placing objects near each other for impact

Scale- using known size relationships to communicate

Levitation- floating objects that do no float; using knowledge of weight

Dislocation -taking objects out of their normal environment

Transparency -making objects transparent or opaque against their normalcy

Transformation -transforming from one physical state to another

Juxtaposition- placing

objects near each other for

impact

(DE CHIRICO)

(DE CHIRICO)

Scale- using known size relationships to communicate

(MAGRITTE)

(MAGRITTE)

Levitation- floating objects that do no float; using knowledge of weight

(MAGRITTE)

Dislocation -taking objects

out of their normal

environment

(MAGRITTE)

(MAGRITTE)

Transparency -making objects transparent or opaque against their normalcy

(MAGRITTE)

(MAGRITTE)

Transformation -from one physical state to another

(DALI)

(DALI)

(DALI)

(DALI)

Dali’s best-known work, The Persistence of Memory was completed in August 1931.

(DALI)

Magritte has many popular images, his best-known work, The Son of Man was completed in 1964.

Magritte says:“At least it hides the face partly well, so you have the apparent face, the apple, hiding the visible but hidden, the face of the person. It's something that happens constantly. Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present”

THIS IS NOT A PIPE BY MAGRITTE

FALSE MIRROR BY MAGRITTE

PROJECT DETAILS:

1. PULL OUT RANDOMLY MAGAZINE PAGES OF IMAGES YOU LIKE OR CATCH YOUR EYE.2. FOLD OUTER EDGES OF BLACK PAPER TO MEET IN THE MIDDLE TO CREATE A “DOOR” 3. CUT AND GLUE IMAGES THROUGHOUT THE INSIDE OF THE BLACK PAPER UTILIZING

THE VARIOUS SURREALIST TECHNIQUES, ESPECIALLY JUXTAPOSITIONING AND SCALE.4. SET ASIDE 1 LARGE IMAGE FOR YOUR COVER, THAT YOU WILL CUT IN HALF, AND GLUE

ONTO THE DOOR.

5. DO NOT PUT YOUR NAME ON THIS PROJECT. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT!!!!

6. TURN IN PROJECT INTO RANDOM PILE

7. CHOOSE 1 PROJECT THAT YOU DO NOT KNOW THE ARTIST

8. YOU WILL BE LEAD THROUGH THE 4 STEP PROCESS OF ART CRITICISM BEFORE FINALIZING VAAS AND GRADING.

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