INTERACTMaterials:● something to write with ● sheet of blank paper

To Play:● Fold a sheet of paper into four

sections hotdog style● Draw whatever your heart desires

in one of the sections (please keep this school appropriate)

● When the time is up, draw lines into the next section and fold over the paper so you can't see your drawing

****Note: the next person must use those lines in their picture****● Pass your paper to someone

else.

What is Surrealism?

● Dreams● Subconscious● Imagination● Break from reality● Pushes boundaries● Sexuality● Freedom of thought/expression● Experimented with automatism● Automatic drawing

How/Why it started/End

● Began in 1920s in Paris with poems and journals

● André Breton - Manifesto of Surrealism (1924)

● Dadaism● WWI● End?

InfluencesPolitical● WWI

Artistic● Dadaism● Later influenced Abstract

Expressionism

Social● Bourgeois

culture

Scientific● Freud's Psychoanalytic

Theory

Dalí

Ernst

Miró

Magritte

Max Ernst (1891-1976)

● Frottage● Grattage● Collage● Decalcomania

The Barbarians, 1937

Two Children are Threatened by a Nightingale, 1924

The Forest, 1927

Celebus, 1921

At the First Clear Word, 1923

Salvador Dalí (1905-1989)

● Uses: paranoiac critical(imagery), corporeality, hallucinatory visions

● Influenced by Masson and Miró

The Angélus of Gala (1935)

Venus de Milo with Drawers(1936)

Bird...Fish (1927-28)

The Lugubrious Game (1929)

Invisible Lion, Horse, Sleeping Woman(1930)

René Magritte (1898-1967)

● Simple/pictorial paintings● Often used objects and rearranged them● Used words to represent objects● Childhood trauma influence● Sometimes conventional and inexpressive

Reproduction Forbidden, 1937

The Human Condition, 1933

The Central Story, 1928

The Apparition, 1928

The Treachery of Images, 1928

Joan Miró (1893-1983)

● Experimented with: engraving, lithography, water colors, pastels, and painting over copper

● Body language and freshness● Use of automatic drawing and

collages ● Often makes one form larger

than others (in his works)

Painting [Composition] (1933)

Wounded Personage (1940)

Woman in Front of the Sun (1950)

Étoiles en des sexes d'escargot (1925)

(Stars in the Sexes of a Snail)

Reactions

Then● Broke boundaries for other artists● Some did not understand

Now● Still prevalent ● Helps people understand facts● Used to create movies, advertisements, etc

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