Surrealism powerpoint presentation
- 1. Surrealism Where the ordinary becomes extraordinary
- 2. Surrealism • Surrealism Movement was founded in Paris in 1924 • as a movement that relied on dreams, nightmares fantasy, images from the subconscious. • Surrealist means above and beyond reality as it is normally seen and understood. • Artists were interested in strange things that can happen. • Humor was a part of the surrealism. • Works can be a combination of objects and images which are absurd and very funny, they believed that art did not have to be serious all the time Subject Matter • Objects rejected by society • Objects in strange surroundings • Unusual perspective/ barren landscapes sky • Reflections and shadows do not have to be the same size as the objects casting the shadows • Effects of gravity • Melting of objects/transforming/blending Common Images • Eyes ants, playing cards, snakes/reptiles, human body parts, skulls, skeleton, fish, butterflies etc
- 4. Salvador Dali Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man Oil on Canvas 1943
- 5. Salvador Dali Atavistic Vestiges After the Rain Oil on canvas 1934
- 6. Salvador Dali The Architectural Angelus of Millet Oil on Canvas 1933
- 7. Salvador Dali The Last Supper (detail) Oil on canvas 1955
- 8. Salvador Dali Beach Scene with telephone (detail) Oil on canvas, 1938
- 9. Salvador Dali Lobster telephone 1936 Mixed Media
- 10. Rene Magritte 1898-1967 The Voice of the Winds 1928
- 11. Rene Magritte ‘Golconda, 1953
- 12. Rene Magritte ‘Memory’ 1948
- 14. James Gleeson •James Gleeson is regarded as the foremost Australian surrealist painter and poet. •His career spans from 1938 until the present day •He was initially influenced by Dali •As a war artist, he painted and drew scenes of battles, this may have influenced his ‘warped’ images
- 15. Structural Emblems of a Friend 1941 Oil on Canvas board, 46 x 35.6 cm
- 16. We inhabit the Corrosive Littoral of Habit, 1940 Oil on Canvas 40.7x51.1cm National Gallery of Victoria, Gift
- 17. Coagulations on the maintenance of Identity 1942 Oil on Canvas 97.6x77.4cm
- 18. Frida Kahlo Mexican Artist 1907-1954 ‘the art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb’ Andre Breton
- 19. Frida Kahlo Self portrait 1940 Oil on Masonite 40x31cms
- 20. Frida Kahlo Self portrait with braid 1941 Oil on Masonite 51x38.7cms
- 21. Frida Kahlo The Broken Column 1944 Oil on Masonite 40x31cms
- 22. Frida Kahlo
- 23. Frida Kahlo Tree of Hope 1946
- 24. Dorothea Tanning Eine kleine nachmusik 1946
- 27. Max Dupain Girls Head and Goats Skull 1930
Editor's Notes
- #9: Dali was concerned with the threat of war in Europe, the telephone represents the phone calls between chamberlain and Hitler which culminated in the short term Munich Agreement in Sept. 1938