This document provides an overview of Surrealism, a revolutionary artistic movement that began in the early 20th century. It discusses key Surrealist artists like Andre Breton, Andre Masson, Joan Miro, Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte and their major works. Surrealism was influenced by psychoanalysis and aimed to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams. It had two strands - biomorphic works by artists like Masson and Miro, and realistic works featuring recognizable objects by Magritte and Dali. The movement sought to challenge rational thought and social norms through automatic writing and painting techniques.

1. Surrealism
• Andre Breton
• Freud
• Andre Masson
• Battle of Fishes, 1927
• Joan Miro
• The Hunter 1923-4
• Harlequin’sCarnival 1925
Dutch Interiors II 1928
• Self Portrait 1937
• Poetess 1940
• Blue 1961
• Rene Magritte
• The treachery of Images 1928-9
• .

2. Breton
• “I believe in the future resolution of these two
states , dream and reality , which are so
seemingly contradictory into a kind of absolute
reality, a surreality.
• Dictionary Definition:
• Psychic automatism in its pure state by which
one proposes to express, verbally, or by other,
means the actual functioning of thought.
Dictated by thought , IN THE ABSENCE OF
ANY CONTROL OF EXERCISED REASON,
EXEMPT FROM ANY AESTHETIC OR MORAL
CONCERN.

4. Surrealism
• Related to but different from DADA
• Manifesto created by Breton in 1924
• Freud
Automatism
Hallucination
Irrational thought associations
Dreams

6. EXQUISITE CORPSE

7. Two strands of surrealism
• Biomorphic
• Masson and miro
AND
• Realistic and recognizable
• Magritte and dali

8. ANDRE MASSON

9. Max Ernst, The Horde, 1927

10. Max Ernst, Surrealism and Painting, 1942

11. JOAN MIRO
• Catalan
• Spent time in paris
• But returned to native Spain a lot
• Influenced by cezanne, matisse, picasso

12. JOAN MIRO

13. HUNTER , 1923

14. Jean arp

15. Miro, harlequin’s carnival

16. Bosch, garden of delights

17. Van Steen, Dancing Cat’s lesson

18. Miro, dutch interiors II

21. Salvador dali
• Catalan
• Symbolizes above all others surrealism
• Mastered all techniques taught to him at
he academy
• Freud
• Idolizes meissonnier and vermeer
• Paranoic-critical method

22. Slidelist
• DALI
• Bread Basket 1920s
• Accommodation of Desires
1929
• Lugubrious Game 1929
• The Great Masturbator 1929
• Persistence of memory 1931
• Spain 1930s
• Crucifixion 1960s
• Paranoic-critical method
• Magritte
• Treachery of Images
• Key of Dreams 1930s
• Human Condition
• Hegel’s Holiday
• Sound Room
• Castle of the Pyrenees 1959

24. Meissonier

25. Dali, The bread Basket

26. Accommodations of Desire, 1929

27. Dali. Lugubrious
Game 1929

29. Compare to Magritte’s painting

31. Dali, Spain

32. Dali, Crucifixion

36. Magritte

37. Magritte, treachery of images

38. Magritte, human condition

39. Key of dreams , magritte

42. Magritte, The son of Man 1946

46. MASSON, STREET MANNEQUIN, 1938

47. Magritte, Dangerous Liaisons, 1926

49. Leonora Carrington, self portrait, 1936

50. Remedios Varos, Mimesis. 1960

51. Leonor Fini, At ends of earth 1949

52. Remedios Varos, Harmony 1955

54. Frida and Diego, 1931