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Surrealism

Surrealism. The Surrealist Movement. Began in the 1920’s Leader, Andre Breton A revolutionary movement in politics, literature, art, music, etc. Surrealism developed out of the Dada activities of World War I Influenced by theories of Sigmund Freud. Dada Art.

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Surrealism

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  1. Surrealism

  2. The Surrealist Movement • Began in the 1920’s • Leader, Andre Breton • A revolutionary movement in politics, literature, art, music, etc. • Surrealism developed out of the Dada activities of World War I • Influenced by theories of Sigmund Freud

  3. Dada Art • Believing that excessive rational thought and bourgeois values had brought the terrifying conflict upon the world. • The Dadaists protested with anti-rational anti-art gatherings, performances, writing and art works. • Political & Social Art • Art that purposefully defied reason • Rejected labels and categories

  4. Surrealist Manifesto • Andre Breton, 1924 • Surrealism was a means of reuniting conscious and unconscious realms of experience so completely that the world of dream and fantasy would be joined to the everyday rational world in "an absolute reality, a surreality." • Features • element of surprise • unexpected juxtapositions • non sequitur • Automatism • Imagery and words are important but their arrangement must be open to full range of the imagination.

  5. non sequitur • “it Does not Follow” • Describes illogical statements. • Irrelevant, often humorous.

  6. Automatism • spontaneously writing, drawing, or painting without censoring their thought. • Developed by Freud’s theories on free association, dream analysis and the hidden unconscious.

  7. juxtapositions • placing close together or side by side, esp. for comparison or contrast.

  8. Surrealist Artists • Jean Arp • Max Ernst • André Masson • René Magritte • Yves Tanguy • Salvador Dalí • Pierre Roy • Paul Delvaux, • Joan Miró • Giorgio de Chirico • Méret Oppenheim

  9. Giorgio de Chirico

  10. A pre-surrealist turned surrealist • Italian Painter born in Volos, Greece • Influenced my the “metaphysical aspect” of Turin, Italy • Archways and Piazzas • Classical Architecture

  11. Love Song , 1914

  12. Salvador Dali

  13. A Spanish Surrealist Artist • Film, Sculpture, Photography, and Painting • Uses symbolism inspired by dream analysis and psychoanalysis. • His extreme behavior and performances were thought to be more eye catching then his art.

  14. Yves Tanguy

  15. Born in Paris, France • Inspired by De Chirico • Uses vast, non-representational surrealism. • Limited color palette • Landscapes use angular and sharp and organic shapes abstractly, to create an alien like, & underwater scenes. • With the outbreak of WW2 him and his wife moved to America

  16. Méret Oppenheim

  17. German born – Swiss Surrealist • A Female Artist • Everyday objects that allude to feminine sexuality and the exploitation of the opposite sex. • Uses juxtaposition of materials in “Object” to confuse the meaning and purpose of the object.

  18. Paul Delvaux

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