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What is Surrealism?

Surreal- [ suh-ree-uhl ] adjective 1. bizarre, silly or Absurd 2. having the disorienting, hallucinatory quality of a dream; unreal; fantastic. What is Surrealism?. surrealists were a group of artists and writers who got together in Paris in the early 1920’s

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What is Surrealism?

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  1. Surreal- [suh-ree-uhl]adjective1. bizarre, silly or Absurd2. having the disorienting, hallucinatory quality of a dream; unreal; fantastic

  2. What is Surrealism? • surrealists were a group of artists and writers who got together in Paris in the early 1920’s • Started with group automatic writing exercises • Opened Bureau of Surrealistic Research and published the Surrealist Manifesto

  3. Andre Breton • Leader of the Surrealist Movement • Worked during WWII as a neurologist • Fascinated by the work of Sigmund Freud. • Wrote the Surrealist Manifesto: • “The marvelous is always beautiful. Anything marvelous is always beautiful, in fact, only the marvelous is beautiful.”

  4. Not just art • Surrealism was not just an art movement • It went beyond paintings and sculpture. • Used writings, film, photos and exhibitions as artifact to convey their way of thought.

  5. Dreams and the Imagination • Surrealists showed the type of things that might be seen in dreams • Very interested in imagination and the subconscious • subconscious thoughts and feelings were hidden behind rational (reasonable) thought Champ de Mars, Marc Chagall

  6. The surrealist idea: • Surrealists wanted to break free of every day expectations, routines, and conventions • surrealist art should bring random, everyday objects together outside of normal settings to make people look at them differently Aphrodisiac Telephone SalvidorDalí 1936

  7. Renee Magritte • Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well.... Le Fils De L'Homme (Son of Man) Rene Magritte 1973

  8. Juxtaposition • Juxtaposition: The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together. • “The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture "This is a pipe," I'd have been lying” "La Trahison des Images“ The Treachery of Images Rene Magritte 1928-29 Oil on Canvas

  9. The Surrealist Object: •   Surrealists created objects which juxtaposed wildly dissimilar things in order to create a third reality, a surreality • They wanted to defamiliarize objects from their every day use. Object Meret Oppenheim 1936

  10. The GiftMan Ray

  11. The Ready-made • Also called “found art” • Focused on the context the artist created for the artist • The point was not to be beautiful • Art should shock the viewer into looking at things differently 'Fountain' Marcel Duchamp 1917

  12. "Even standing in the corner it wouldn't do, for then it suddenly became a shovel again... When our little went on tour, a janitor at a Museum in Minnesota the next winter mistook it for a shovel, as well he might, and went to work on a snowdrift, doing Duchamp's inscription no good" (30). In Advance of the Broken Arm Marcel Duchamp 1913

  13. Marcel Duchamp Fresh Widow1920, replica 1964 The Bottle Rack Marcel Duchamp 1914

  14. Salvador Dali

  15. SALVADOR DALI Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dream, in the disinterested play of thought.

  16. "There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.“ –Salvador Dali

  17. Personification • giving human traits (qualities, feelings, action, or characteristics) to non-living objects (things, colors, qualities, or ideas).

  18. Anthropomorphismn. • Attribution of human motivation, characteristics, or behavior to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena.

  19. THE ‘PARANOIC-CRITICAL METHOD’ "spontaneous method of irrational knowledge based on the critical and systematic objectivity of the associations and interpretations of delirious phenomena."

  20. "In the Surrealist period I wanted to create the iconography of the interior world and the world of the marvelous, of my father Freud. Today the exterior world and that of physics, has transcended the one of psychology. My father today is Dr. Heisenberg."

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