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Surrealism

Surrealism. a journey into the subconscious. What is surrealism?. Began in the early 1920s Rejects logic Features the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions, and non-sequitur Interested in raising question rather than delivering answers Was a revolutionary art movement. A Joke.

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Surrealism

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  1. Surrealism a journey into the subconscious

  2. What is surrealism? • Began in the early 1920s • Rejects logic • Features the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions, and non-sequitur • Interested in raising question rather than delivering answers • Was a revolutionary art movement

  3. A Joke • Q: How many surrealist painters does it take to change a light bulb? • A: A fish.

  4. “The famous pipe…? I’ve been reproached enough about it! And yet…can you fill it? No, it’s only a depiction, isn’t it? If I had written ‘This is a pipe’ under my picture, I would have been lying!” -Rene Magritte Rene Magritte, The Treachery of Images, 1928/29

  5. Rene Magritte, The False Mirror, 1928

  6. Rene Magritte, The Human Condition, 1933

  7. Rene Magritte, The Human Condition, 1935

  8. “I think that the best title for a picture is a poetic title.” -Rene Magritte Rene Magritte, The Glass Key, 1959

  9. "At least it hides the face partly. Well, so you have the apparent face, the apple, hiding the visible but hidden, the face of the person. It's something that happens constantly. Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present." -Rene Magritte Rene Magritte, The Son of Man, 1964

  10. “Visible things can be invisible. If somebody rides a horse through a wood, at first one sees them, and then not, yet one knows that they are there. In Carte Blanche, the rider is hiding the trees, and the trees are hiding her. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible – and I make use of painting to render thoughts visible.” -Rene Magritte Rene Magritte, Carte Blanche, 1965

  11. Salvador Dali, Girl Standing at the Window, 1925

  12. Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, 1931

  13. “I think I am, in what I create, a rather mediocre painter. What I regard as brilliant is my vision, not what I actually create.” -Salvador Dali Salvador Dali, Giraffe on Fire, 1937

  14. This is an “anti-psychological self-portrait. Instead of painting the soul – the inside – I wanted to paint solely the outside: the envelope, ‘the glove of myself’.” -Salvador Dali Salvador Dali, Soft Self-Portrait with Fried Bacon, 1941

  15. Salvador Dali, Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man, 1943

  16. Salvador Dali, The Temptation of St. Anthony, 1946

  17. “The difference between me and the surrealists is that I am a surrealist.” -Salvador Dali Salvador Dali, The Hallucinogenic Toreador, 1968-70

  18. Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, 1931

  19. Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, 1931

  20. Rene Magritte, Personal Values, 1952

  21. Rene Magritte, Personal Values, 1952

  22. Salvador Dali, Face of Mae West Which May Be Used as an Apartment, 1934-35

  23. Salvador Dali, Face of Mae West Which May Be Used as an Apartment, 1934-35

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