SURREALISM UNIT PRESENTATION

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SURREALISM UNIT PRESENTATION

• Featuring the life and work of surrealist artists.

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Salvador Dali

• One of the most famous artists of the surrealist
  movement.
• View a video clip of Dalis life and work
• Listen to audio clips from Dali interviews

http//www.daligallery.com/
http//www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profi
lepages/dalis1.shtml
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The Artist

• Artist of the 20th century
• An eccentric and exhibitionist
• Spanish painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and
  designer
• Phases of Cubism, Futurism, and Metaphysical
  painting
• Joined the Surrealists in 1929

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Critical Paranoia

• Dalis positive theory
• One should create their own illusions
• Control of reason and will suspended
• Should be used in everyday affairs

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Paintings

• Reoccurring images
• Unreal dream space present
• Hallucinatory characters of the imagination
• Hand-painted dream photographs

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Rene Magritte

• www. Surrealism.org/margitte.html

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The Artist and his work

• Artist during the second half on 20th century
• Philosophical and poetic content
• Intellectual and social trends of the time
• Simplicity in his paintings is misleading
• The world is a sufficient source of mystery
• Images reflect mystery of the visible world

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Precociousness

• Magrittes theory
• State before and during waking up
• Played an important role in his work
• Hallucinations occurred while Magritte was awake.

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His works meaning..

• Visual thinking
• Provides clues to mental process involved
• Cannot be solved like a puzzle

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QA on Dali and Magritte

• True or False Dali was an eccentric?
• What was Dalis theory called?
• What year did Dali join the surrealists?

• What was Magrittes theory called?
• What types of content did his work contain?
• Where did Magritte draw his images from?

True
Precociousness
Critical Paranoia
Philosophical and poetic
1929
The real-world and dreams
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Student Surrealistic Environment Project Examples
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