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SURREALISM

SURREALISM. And the artist: RENE MAGRITTE. Surrealism: a 20 th century artistic movement that attempted to express the workings of the subconscious by using fantastic imagery and the incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter. Joining two images together in impossible combinations.

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SURREALISM

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  1. SURREALISM And the artist: RENE MAGRITTE

  2. Surrealism: a 20th century artistic movement that attempted to express the workings of the subconscious by using fantastic imagery and the incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter. Joining two images together in impossible combinations • What is Surrealism?

  3. 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!

  4. 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 (pronounced: rna mägrt, 1898-1967)

  5. 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 appears fantastic.

  6. What is unusual about this room?

  7. Remember, Magritte changed ordinary things to make them look strange and funny. He changed the size of things (the painting of the bedroom) He changed the place of things (the castle on the rock in the sky) He changed the texture of things (the painting in the window) He changed parts of things (the apple on the man’s nose)

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

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

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

  12. SCALE

  13. Personal Values SCALE

  14. LEVITATION Floating objects that don’t normally float

  15. LEVITATION

  16. Golconde LEVITATION

  17. JUXTAPOSITION Joining two images together in impossible combinations

  18. JUXTAPOSITION

  19. JUXTAPOSITION

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

  21. DISLOCATION

  22. DISLOCATION

  23. TRANSPARENCY Making objects transparent that are not usually transparent

  24. TRANSPARENCY

  25. TRANSPARENCY

  26. TRANSFORMATION Changing objects in unusual ways

  27. TRANSFORMATION

  28. TRANSFORMATION

  29. Now think of some objects or animals of your own, take 2 and combine them to make an ‘unlikely combination’. Remember to give your picture an exciting name! Your drawing needs to be 1 full page that is completely colored in neatly!

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