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- 1. Surrealism LaurenCallegari Marah Maaita
- 2. What is Surrealism? •An art movement where an artists goes into their subconscious to inspire their work. • The artists wanted to expose the inner world of sexuality, desire, and violence
- 3. How do youknow if it is surreal? • Out of place objects (juxtaposition) • Unreal scenes • Normal subjects acting abnormal • Fantasy creatures Time Transfixed by: The Listening Room by: Not To Be Reproduced Magritte Magritte by: Magritte The Elephant Celebes by: Ernst
- 4. Freud-Influencer (1856-1939) • Developed psychological theories on free association, dream analysis, and the unconscious mind. • He helped artists to be able to go into their unconscious mind.
- 5. Breton-Founder (1896-1966) • Studied Freud's theories and applied it to his art. • Started the surrealism movement in 1924.
- 6. Dadaism Influence • Started after World War I • “Anti- art” or “nonart” • Went against traditional art • Violent, had an attitude against war, protest, and disgust of life • Later it got to nonconformity, became dead L.H.O.O.Q. by Marcel Duchamp, he added a mustache and goatee to The root of surrealism, but the Mona Lisa to shift from the surrealism is less violent traditional art works
- 7. Types • Automatists: focusedmore on feelings and less on analyzing. Felt that the pictures should not be burdened with “meaning”. • Veristics: allow images of the subconscious to emerge so they could be understood.
- 8. Technique • Frottage: putpaper on a surface and rub over it to get the texture • Grattage: scratching textures into painted surfaces. • Decalcomania: wet paint is pressed onto a painting and then removed.
- 10. Max Ernst (1891-1976) • Invented frottage • His work focuses on dream imagery, eroticism, symbolism, and politics. • Used illusion and abstract
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- 14. The Angel ofHearth And Home
- 15. Joan Miro (1893-1983) • His work was borderline abstract • Childlike quality to his work • Credited as the founder of automatism
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- 18. Catalan Landscape (TheHunter)
- 19. Still Life withOld Shoe
- 20. Salvador Dali (1904-1989) • Used hallucinatory characters • Some of his work included sexual figures • Colorful personality
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- 22. The Persistence OfMemory
- 23. Apparition Of AFace And A Fruit Dish On A Beach
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- 25. Rene Magritte (1898-1967) • Uses everyday images • It is suspected that he hides the faces in his work because his mom was found dead with her dress covering her face.
- 26. The Treachery ofImages
- 27. Not To BeReproduced
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- 29. The Son ofMan
- 30. Citations • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Transfixed • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Listening_Room • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_to_be_Reproduced • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elephant_Celebes • http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2011/10/13/closing-the-gap-max-ernst-through-the-lens-of-the-lower-east-side/ • http://karskaya.com/?page_id=12&language=fr • http://classes.yale.edu/fractals/panorama/art/decalcomania/decalcomania.html • http://joshuaabelow.blogspot.com/2011/09/equivocal-woman-teetering-woman-1923.html • http://www.actingoutpolitics.com/ernst-monument-to-birds/ • http://thebrainpolice.blogspot.com/2010_07_01_archive.html • http://www.students.sbc.edu/evans06/presentation.htm • http://joanmiro.com/ • http://www.fun-learning-spanish.com/miro.html • http://clockwisecat.blogspot.com/2011/12/still-life-with-old-shoe.html • http://madamepickwickartblog.com/2010/06/the-bull-lies-down-on-broadway/ • http://realitybitesartblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/bite-45-salvador-dali-persistence-of_25.html • http://arthistory.about.com/od/from_exhibitions/ig/dali_retrospective/dali_pma_05_09.htm • http://www.fantom-xp.com/wp_12__Sleep_-_Le_Sommeil_Salvador_Dali.html • http://www.mattesonart.com/magritte-and-poe-strange-brew.aspx • http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/rene-magritte/the-lovers-1928 • http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/rene-magritte/son-of-man-1964