The document defines surrealism as an art movement that aimed to express imaginative dreams and visions free from rational control. It flourished in the early 20th century. Surrealist paintings combined objects that did not belong together in realistic, almost photographic, images that could be funny, mysterious, or frightening. The document provides information on three prominent surrealist artists: Salvador Dali, known for his painting "The Persistence of Memory" and for working with figures like Alfred Hitchcock; Rene Magritte, a Belgian painter and major surrealist figure; and M.C. Escher, known for works portraying impossible spaces through lithography and woodcuts. It assigns the reader a project to create a surre

1. pencil.
Write down and answer:
In your own words, what
does the word surrealism
mean?
What is the strangest
dream that you can
remember?

2. Surrealism
Definition: A 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.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/surrealism
Surrealists painted realistic, almost photographic, images but
combined objects that didn’t belong together. Surrealist
paintings can be funny or mysterious and frightening.

3. Surrealism
Artists: Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte M.C. Esher

4. Salvador Dali
Leader of the Surrealist Movement.
His painting, The “Persistance of Memory”, still
one of the best-known surrealist works.
1940 Dali flees to America to live for the next
eight years, working with figures like Hitchcock
and Walt Disney.

8. Belgian Rene Magritte
painter, draughtsman, printmaker, sculptor, photog
rapher and film maker. He was one of the major
figures of Surrealism and perhaps the greatest
Belgian artist of the 20th century.

12. M.C. Escher
Working in lithograph, wood engraving, and woodcut, he
portrayed with great technical genius impossible spaces and
unexpected metamorphoses of one object into another. His
images were of equal interest to mathematicians, cognitive
psychologists, and the general public, and they were widely
reproduced throughout the 20th century.

16. Project Assignment:
Create a surrealist cityscape.

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