Surrealism began in Paris in the 1920s as an artistic movement founded on exploring and channeling the unconscious mind. The Surrealist Manifesto, written by Andre Breton in 1924, aimed to unlock the power of imagination through dream analysis and free association inspired by Freudian psychoanalysis. Key surrealist artists included Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, René Magritte, and Max Ernst, who created strange and dreamlike paintings incorporating symbols, juxtapositions, and themes of sexuality and madness to express the surreal. The movement declined during World War 2 but had lasting influence on later art forms.

1. SURREALISM
Alex Flack & Victoria Gallagher
4th hour

2. START OF SURREALISM
 Began as a literary movement after Dadaism
 Founded in Paris
 Artists wanted to channel the unconscious as a means to
unlock the power of imagination

3. THE SURREALIST MANIFESTO
 Written by Andre Breton in 1924
 Launched the surrealist movement
 Wrote out goals and challenges of surrealism
 4 main questions surrealism is trying to answer

4. ANDRE BRETON
Father of Surrealism
“Dear imagination, what I love most about you is
that you are unforgiving. The word freedom alone is
all that still exalts me.”

5. FREUDIAN INFLUENCE
 Surrealism is based on Freud’s theories of dream association, dream
analysis, and subconscious.
 Surrealists aimed to open up their subconscious

6. MIRO
 Born in Barcelona in 1893
 Liked working with different materials
 Had a mental breakdown and then became an artist
 Used bold colors
 Abstract work

7. THE FARM - 1921

8. Carnival of Harlequin -1925

9. Le Coq - 1940

10. MAGRITTE
 Belgian artist
 Moved to Paris in 1927
 Covers faces in his paintings
 Influence on pop minimalist and conceptual art
 Obsessed with women’s bodies

11. THE LOVERS - 1928

12. The Son of Man - 1964

13. Le Viol (The Rape) - 1935

14. SALVADOR DALI
 Born in Spain
 Brother died 9 months before he was born
 Child prodigy, started painting at age 6
 Married to Gala

15. YOUTUBE CLIP
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccz41zjvR-8

16. THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY
1931

17. Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of a New Man - 1943

18. THE GREAT
MASTURBATOR- 1929

20. ERNST
 German artist born in 1891
 Created collages and used frottage
 Alter ego was the loplop
 Only training he had was from his father
 Paintings are more dream like

21. L ' A N G E D U F OY E R O U L E T R I O M P H E D U
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24. THE END OF SURREALISM
 Ended during WW2
 Abstract expressionism and Feminist Surrealism sprung out of this
movement
 Breton kicked everyone out (Magritte & Dali)