Surrealism What you need:

Vocabulary BookInk blot paper

A black and a white pastelPen/Pencil

“André Breton,” Man Ray, 1930.

Surrealism - a type of art that breaks away from reality and can appear unreal. It explores dreams,

the unconscious, and multiple levels of realities.

The Unconscious - are thoughts, feelings, and emotions that are supressed, not spoken

of, and may be concidered unordinary.

Salvador Dali “Paranoiac Visage,” 1931

Salvador Dali Paranoic Visage,1935

Paranoiac Critical Method -is the act of “seeing into” and finding a double image.

Charles Allan Gilbert

Roberto Matta “A Grave Situation,” 1946.

Roberto Matta, “Los 5 Destacados, 1975.”

Francis Picabia “The Handsome Pork Butcher,” 1924.

Wifredo Lam

Wifredo Lam “Gravure, Uno,” 1967

Meret Oppenheim

André Mason “Automatic Drawing,” 1924.

Automatism- a reflex action, or an act done by a

person who is not conscious of what he is doing.

André Mason “Battle of the Fishes,” 1924.

"Practicing automatism is much like going fishing; you never know whether you will bring home a fish or an old boot." - André Mason

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