I had the strangest dream last night

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• I had the strangest dream last night

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• I had the strangest dream last night

Salvador Dali, Giraffe on Fire
Rene Magritte, Boot Feet
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Surrealism

• Artists combine normally unrelated objects and
  situations
• Scenes are often dreamlike or in unnatural
  settings
• Surrealists base most of their work on DREAMS

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Salvador Dali

• Painted memories of
• dreams and fantasies

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The Persistence of Memory, 1931
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• He said the idea came to him while eating cheese

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• Ants, a common theme in Dali's work, represent
  decay

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Lobster Phone
'The surrealist object - one that is absolutely
useless from the practical and rational point of
view
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Swans
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Giorgio de Chirico

• Produced series of disturbing cityscapes
• Mysterious imagery
• Hidden reality thru strange juxtapositions

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The Mystery and Melancholy of a Street, 1914
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• Dark shadows
• Mysterious figures
• Haunting dream world

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• Produces feeling of loneliness and despair
• Unexplainable shadow impending doom

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Ariadne, 1913

• Unreal dreamlike scenario
• Allusions to ancient and modern world
• Overall effect anxiety, loneliness and
  abandonment

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THE EXQUISITE CORPSE
Head/Neck
Upper Body
Stomach/Waist
Legs/Feet
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