SURREALISM

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SURREALISM Most 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 Biomorp
hic (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 dreams
• Is 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
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.
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Rene Magritte
Rene Magritte The Human Condition 1933.
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Rene Magritte
Rene Magritte The Human Condition 1935.
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Jacques Louis-David, Madame Recamier, 1800.
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Magritte, David's Madame Recamier, 1950.
 
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Rene Magritte
Rene Magritte The Therapist 1941.
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Magritte, Treachery of Images, 1928-29.
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Rene Magritte, The False Mirror, 1935.
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Magritte, The Lovers (2), 1928.
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Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali At 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
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Salvador Dali
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.
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Salvador Dali
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.
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Salvador Dali, The Persistence Of Memory, 1931.
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Photo of Dali, 1948 (Philip Halsman).
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Salvador Dali, Disintergration of The Persistence
Of Memory, 1954.
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Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali, Cannibalism in Autumn, 1926-27.
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Salvador Dali, The Slave Market (Bust of
Voltaire), 1940.
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Salvador Dali, The Metamorphosis of Narcissus,
1937.
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Jean-Francois Millet, The Angelus 1857-59.
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Dali, Archeological Reminiscence of Millet's
Angelus, 1933-35.
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Salvador Dali, The Temptation of St. Anthony,
1946.
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Joan Miro
Joan Miro Organic 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
Miro, Le Petit Rose, 1933
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Joan Miro
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.
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Joan Miro Dutch Interior I 1928.
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Joan Miro, Harlequins Carnival, 1924-25.
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Joan Miro
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Installation of Joan Miros work at Cincinnati
Art Museum
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