SurrealismA movement in art and literature that flourished in the early twentieth century. Surrealism aimed at

expressing imaginative dreams and visions free from conscious rational control.[French surréalisme : sur-, beyond (from Old French; see sur-) + réalisme, realism (from réalité, realism,

from Medieval Latin reālitās, from reālis, real; see real1).]

Artists – Dali, Magritte, Tanguy, de Chirico

Surrealism Assignment1. Open Photoshop. 2. Draw a basic room interior using the pencil tool and Shift/Click

You can choose to have a landscape as your background instead of a room. Then you need to start with the horizon line.

3. Add a new layer4. Open additional documents to create the walls, windows, objects, people. Use the

lasso tools or magic wand tool if necessary to make your selections. Use the transform<perspective command to create walls, floor, ceiling.

SurrealismA 20th-century literary and artistic movement that attempts to express the workings of the subconscious by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter.

According to the major spokesman of the movement, the poet and critic André Breton, who published "The Surrealist Manifesto" in 1924, Surrealism was a means of reuniting conscious and unconscious realms of experience so completely that the world of dream

and fantasy would be joined to the everyday rational world in "an absolute reality, a surreality." Drawing heavily on theories adapted from Sigmund Freud, Breton saw the unconscious as the wellspring of the imagination. He defined genius in terms of accessibility to this normally untapped realm, which, he believed, could be attained by poets and painters alike.

The major Surrealist painters were Jean Arp, Max Ernst, André Masson, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Salvador Dalí, Pierre Roy, Paul Delvaux, and Joan Miró. With its emphasis on content and free form, Surrealism provided a major alternative to the contemporary, highly formalistic Cubist movement and was largely responsible for perpetuating in modern painting the traditional emphasis on content.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_de_Chirico

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Magritte