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- 1. SURREALISM GRADE 11 TERM 3CHAPTER 6
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- 12. The Presistence ofMemory 19 A barren space where time stands still. A strange never-setting sun illuminates the landscape. The cliffs in the distance are actually from a place in Catalonia, where he grew up. An amorphous* creature sleeps in the foreground. This could be the face of Dali himself with long eyelashes that seem to be insect-like. Dali has draped this creature with a limp pocket watch. Ants swarm mysteriously over the small watch, while a fly walks on the face of the neighbouring watch. Another watch hangs like a pancake from the branch of a dead tree that springs unexpectedly from a block-like architectural form. A third watch hangs half over the edge of this rectangular form, beside a small watch resting dial-down on the block. It is as if these watches were organic and decaying, soft and sticky. AMORPHOUS: without a clearly defined shape or form.
- 13. In this workcommonplace objects gradually become objects from a nightmare. The watches clearly allude to time passing, but the softness of these instruments for measuring time, however, renders them unreliable. The watches become ‘like rotten flesh’ attracting ants and a fly and suggest that all things must come to an end. Dali painted this fantasy with a meticulous painting technique and attention to detail to convince the viewer of the reality of this scene.
- 14. Rene Magritte René Magritte(1898-1967) was a Belgian Surrealist artist. His work challenges the viewer’s perceptions of reality with his witty and thought-provoking images. “The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown” - René Magritte
- 16. Time Transfixed -1938 In this painting Magritte puts together precisely and realistically painted objects that do not belong together logically. He paints a smoking steam train coming out of a fireplace in a suburban room. He blends together the ordinary to create a strange and disturbing scene from a nightmare.
- 18. The Treachery ofImages, 1931 Magritte represents a meticulously painted briar pipe. It looks like a real pipe, but then he writes underneath it in French that ‘this is not a pipe’, which of course it is not, it is only a painted image of a pipe. With this, Magritte explores the relationship between the real world and the painted world.