2. INTERACT
Materials:
● something to write with
● sheet of blank paper
To Play:
● Fold a sheet of paper into four
sections hotdog style
● Draw whatever your heart desires
in one of the sections (please
keep this school appropriate)
● When the time is up, draw lines
into the next section and fold over
the paper so you can't see your
drawing
****Note: the next person must use
those lines in their picture****
● Pass your paper to someone
else.

3. What is Surrealism?
● Dreams
● Subconscious
● Imagination
● Break from reality
● Pushes boundaries
● Sexuality
● Freedom of thought/expression
● Experimented with automatism
● Automatic drawing

4. How/Why it started/End
● Began in 1920s in Paris with poems and
journals
● André Breton - Manifesto of Surrealism
(1924)
● Dadaism
● WWI
● End?

5. Influences
Political
● WWI
Artistic
● Dadaism
● Later influenced Abstract
Expressionism
Social
● Bourgeois
culture
Scientific
● Freud's Psychoanalytic
Theory

6. Dalí
Ernst
Miró
Magritte

7. Max Ernst (1891-1976)
● Frottage
● Grattage
● Collage
● Decalcomania

8. The Barbarians, 1937

9. Two
Children are
Threatened
by a
Nightingale,
1924

10. The Forest, 1927

11. Celebus,
1921

12. At the
First
Clear
Word,
1923

13. Salvador Dalí (1905-1989)
● Uses: paranoiac
critical(imagery),
corporeality,
hallucinatory
visions
● Influenced by
Masson and Miró

14. The Angélus of Gala (1935)

15. Venus de Milo with
Drawers
(1936)

16. Bird...Fish
(1927-28)

17. The
Lugubrious
Game
(1929)

18. Invisible Lion,
Horse,
Sleeping
Woman
(1930)

19. René Magritte (1898-1967)
● Simple/pictorial paintings
● Often used objects and rearranged them
● Used words to represent objects
● Childhood trauma influence
● Sometimes conventional and
inexpressive

20. Reproduction
Forbidden,
1937

21. The
Human
Condition,
1933

22. The Central
Story, 1928

23. The Apparition, 1928

24. The Treachery of Images, 1928

25. Joan Miró (1893-1983)
● Experimented with: engraving,
lithography, water colors,
pastels, and painting over copper
● Body language and freshness
● Use of automatic drawing and
collages
● Often makes one form larger
than others (in his works)

26. Painting [Composition]
(1933)

27. Wounded Personage
(1940)

28. Woman in
Front of
the Sun
(1950)

29. Étoiles en
des sexes
d'escargot
(1925)
(Stars in the
Sexes of a
Snail)

30. Reactions
Then
● Broke boundaries for other artists
● Some did not understand
Now
● Still prevalent
● Helps people understand facts
● Used to create movies, advertisements, etc

31. Surrealist
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