Breve reseña sobre el surrealismo

1. SURREALISM: Salvador Dalí

2. SURREALISM
Founded in Paris in 1924. It started as a literary group
strongly allied to the Dada movement.
André Breton (French writer and poet) is considered the
founder of the movement.
“pure psychic
automatism”

3. Inspired by Freud, artists were looking to
channel the unconscious through the power
of imagination .
Surrealists believed that the conscious mind
repressed the power of imagination,
weighting it down with taboos.
By: Ramaz Razmadze
Influenced also by
Marx, they hoped that
the psyche had the
power to reveal the
contradictions in the
everyday world and
spur on revolution

4. The Surrealists generated creative works that exposed the
artists' inner minds in bizarre, symbolic ways in order to
uncover anxieties and to treat them analytically through
visual means.
This is considered the most
influential movement in 20th
century art. Figures
like Dalí and Ray not only had
an important influence on
avant-garde art, but through
their commercial work
(fashion photography,
advertising and film) they
brought the style to a huge
popular audience

5. Marcel Duchamp, Mile of String, 1942.

6. Rene Magritte, Empire of Light, 1953-54

7. Luis Banuel and Salvador Dalí Un Chien Andalou, 1929

8. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989, Spain
Dali is among the most versatile artists
of the twentieth century. Though mainly
remembered for his paintings, he also
turned to sculpture, printmaking,
fashion, advertising, writing, and
filmmaking, collaborating with Luis
Bunuel and Alfred Hitchcock.

9. Dalí and Surrealism
In the 1920s he was a Cubist,
greatly influenced by Picasso.
In 1929, he met Breton at an
exhibition, who invited him to
join the Surrealists.
The Persistence of memory, 1931
The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can
Be Used as a Table, 1934
For the next several years, Dalí´s
paintings were Illustrative of his
theories about the psychological
state of paranoia. He painted bodies,
bones, and symbolic objects that
reflected sexualized fears of father
figures, as well as figures that reflect
the anxiousness of the passing of
time.

10. In 1934, Breton accused him of defending the ‘Hitler
Phenomenon´ and expelled him from the Surrealists.
In 1937, he moved to Italy and practiced more traditional
painting styles

11. DID YOU KNOW …?
• He was named after his dead brother
• After his mother died in 1921 he married his aunt.
• His contemporaries called him a Sell Out
• He was slightly obsessed with Hitler: ‘I often dream
of Hitler as a woman´
• Critics consider all he painted after the age of 40 to
be worthless

12. Sources:
• http://flavorwire.com/334202/the-10-most-surreal-moments-
of-surrealism
• http://www.theartstory.org/artist-dali-salvador.htm
• http://www.theartstory.org/movement-surrealism.
htm#
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD
• http://celebrities.top5.com/top-5-amazing-facts-about-
salvador-dali/