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SURREALISM

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

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SURREALISM

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  1. SURREALISM And the artist: RENE MAGRITTE

  2. that attempted to express the workings of the subconscious by using fantastic imagery and the incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter. • Surrealism is a 20th-century literary and artistic movement

  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. 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.

  7. 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.

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

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

  10. SCALE

  11. Personal Values SCALE

  12. LEVITATION Floating objects that don’t normally float

  13. LEVITATION

  14. Golconde LEVITATION

  15. JUXTAPOSITION Joining two images together in impossible combinations

  16. JUXTAPOSITION

  17. JUXTAPOSITION

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

  19. DISLOCATION

  20. DISLOCATION

  21. TRANSPARENCY Making objects transparent that are not usually transparent

  22. TRANSPARENCY

  23. TRANSPARENCY

  24. TRANSFORMATION Changing objects in unusual way

  25. TRANSFORMATION

  26. TRANSFORMATION

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