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SURREALISMMost Dada artists joined the Surrealist movement as well

Included many similar ideas -used Dada techniques to “release the unconscious”

Exploration of ways to express in art the world of dreams and the unconscious

Inspired by Freud and Jung - interested in the nature of dreams

In dreams, people moved beyond the constraints of society

Artists’ role: to bring inner and outer reality together

Two forms of Surrealism:

Biomorphic (interested in life forms): Joan Miro

Naturalistic (recognizable scenes of nightmare or dream images): Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali

Dali, The Crucifixion, 1958.

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SURREALISM A style of art and literature developed principally in the 20th century, in which fantastic visual imagery from the subconscious mind is used with no intention of making the artwork logically comprehensible.

Involves fantasy & dreamsIs illogical Stresses the subconscious Automatism – to allow your subconscious mind to take over in your art.Demented sense of humor

1924 – 1950s (between World Wars I & II)Europe (especially France and Spain)

Founded in 1924 by poet and critic Andre Breton who published The Surrealist Manifesto: join the world of fantasy to the everyday rational world in “an absolute reality, a surreality.” Breton adapted the theories of Sigmund Freud- dream analysis the unconscious is the wellspring of the imagination. Magritte, Time Transfixed, 1938.

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Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937.

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Rene Magritte(1898-1967)

Mother committed suicide when Magritte was 14

Known for placing realistic objects together in absurd combinations

Rene Magritte, The Son of Man, 1964.

Rene Magritte

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Rene MagritteThe Human

Condition1933.

Rene Magritte

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Rene MagritteThe Human Condition1935.

Rene Magritte

SURREALISM Jacques Louis-David, Madame Recamier, 1800.

SURREALISM Magritte, David's Madame Recamier, 1950.

 

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Rene MagritteThe Therapist1941.

Rene Magritte

SURREALISM Magritte, Treachery of Images, 1928-29.

SURREALISM Rene Magritte, The False Mirror, 1935.

SURREALISM Magritte, The Lovers (2), 1928.

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Salvador DaliAt the young age of 10, Dalí first began painting

Dalí embraced all the science of painting as a way to study the psyche through subconscious images.

He called this process the Paranoiac Critical Method. As any paranoiac, the artist should allow these images to reach the conscience, and then do what the paranoiac cannot do: Freeze them on canvas to give consciousness the opportunity to comprehend their meaning.

Dies of heart failure in 1989

Salvador Dali

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The images of Salvador Dali are very realistically rendered. He was a superb draftsman and used that ability to create a dreamlike or nightmarish reality of his own.

This image called Soft Boiled Beans was also said to be his premonition about the Spanish Civil War.

Dali, Soft Boiled Beans, 1936.

Salvador Dali

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Decay and death are symbolized by a dead tree and a strange sea monster decomposing

The limp watch indicates that someone has the power to twist time as he or she sees fit.

Bottom Line: in time, everything will die and decay except time itself

Dali, The Persistence Of Memory, 1931.

Salvador Dali

SURREALISM Salvador Dali, The Persistence Of Memory, 1931.

SURREALISM Photo of Dali, 1948 (Philip Halsman).

SURREALISM Salvador Dali, Disintergration of The Persistence Of Memory, 1954.

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Salvador Dali,

Cannibalism in Autumn,

1926-27.

Salvador Dali

SURREALISM Salvador Dali, The Slave Market (Bust of Voltaire), 1940.

SURREALISM Salvador Dali, The Metamorphosis of Narcissus, 1937.

SURREALISM Jean-Francois Millet, The Angelus 1857-59.

SURREALISM Dali, Archeological Reminiscence of Millet's Angelus, 1933-35.

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

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Miro, Le Petit Rose, 1933

Joan MiroOrganic forms that expand and contract visually

Used automatism - planned accidents

Element of hallucination

Very abstract, almost child-like images

Combination of unconscious and conscious image-making

Joan Miro

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Joan Miró, A Dew Drop Falling from a Bird's Wing Wakes Rosalie, who Has Been Asleep in the Shadow of a Spider's Web. 1939.

Joan Miro

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Dutch Interior I

1928.

SURREALISM Joan Miro, Harlequin’s Carnival, 1924-25.

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SURREALISM Installation of Joan Miro’s work at Cincinnati Art Museum

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