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SURREALISM

SURREALISM. And artist RENE MAGRITTE. Surrealism is a 20th-century literary and artistic movement that attempts to express the workings of the subconscious by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter.

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SURREALISM

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  1. SURREALISM And artist RENE MAGRITTE

  2. Surrealism is a 20th-century literary and artistic movement that attempts to express the workings of the subconscious by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter. • Surrealism is a term that refers to a heightened sense of reality; translated from French, the term means over-realism--a vision of reality that supercedes the mundane

  3. RENE MAGRITTE "My painting is visible images which conceal nothing; they evoke mystery and, indeed, when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable."René Magritte Rene Magritte (pronounced: rna mägrt, 1898-1967)

  4. Rene Magritte • Rene Magritte was a Belgian surrealist painter. He painted in a realistic style. While the objects appear to the viewer to be recognizable, the composition of those recognizable objects appear fantastic. His paintings are expressive for their juxtaposition of common objects, often altered in scale, and placed in absurd settings. Magritte is deeply interested in the process of thought, and his paintings tend to raise the awareness of the viewer to their own thought processes.

  5. Rene Magritte • More often than not, Magritte chose ordinary things from which to construct his works - trees, chairs, tables, doors, windows, shoes, shelves, landscapes, people. He wanted to be understood via these ordinary things, but he also wanted to shock and surprise his viewers.

  6. Surrealistic Techniques“How to make the ordinary look extraordinary” • Scale • Levitation • Juxtaposition • Dislocation • Transparency • Transformation

  7. SCALE Changing an object’s scale, or relative size.

  8. SCALE

  9. Personal Values SCALE

  10. LEVITATION Floating objects that don’t normally float

  11. LEVITATION

  12. Golconde LEVITATION

  13. JUXTAPOSITION Joining two images together in impossible combinations

  14. JUXTAPOSITION

  15. JUXTAPOSITION

  16. DISLOCATION Taking an object form its usual environment and placing it in an unfamiliar one

  17. DISLOCATION

  18. DISLOCATION

  19. TRANSPARENCY Making objects transparent that are not usually transparent

  20. TRANSPARENCY

  21. TRANSPARENCY

  22. TRANSPARENCY

  23. TRANSPARENCY

  24. TRANSFORMATION Changing objects in unusual way

  25. TRANSFORMATION

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  28. TRANSFORMATION

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