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- 3. Surrealism A movement in the visual arts and literature that flourished in Europe between World Wars I and II.
- 4. SURREALISM 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: Biomorphic (interested in life forms): Joan Miro Naturalistic (recognizable scenes of nightmare or dream images): Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali Dali, The Crucifixion, 1958.
- 5. Two Forms of Surrealism Biomorphic or Abstract Surrealism Naturalistic or Illusionistic (Miro, Masson, Matta) Surrealism (Dali, Tanguy, Magritte) • Automatism – “dictation of thoughts • Recognizable scenes and objects without control of the mind” that are taken out of natural context, • Abstraction distorted and combined in a fantastic • Originated from the experiments in dreamlike way. chance and automatism carried on by • Sources: Henri Rousseau, Chagall, Dadaists and Surrealist writers. Ensor, de Chirico, the Romantics
- 6. 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.
- 7. 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.
- 8. Rene Magritte The Human Condition 1933.
- 9. Rene Magritte The Human Condition 1935.
- 10. Jacques Louis-David, Madame Recamier, 1800.
- 11. Magritte, David's Madame Recamier, 1950.
- 13. Rene Magritte, The False Mirror, 1935.
- 14. Magritte, The Lovers (2), 1928.
- 15. 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
- 16. 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.
- 17. 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.
- 18. Salvador Dali, Disintergration of The Persistence Of Memory, 1954.
- 19. Dali Atomicus (Dali With Everything In Suspension), 1948 (Philip Halsman).
- 21. Salvador Dali, The Slave Market (Bust of Voltaire), 1940.
- 22. Salvador Dali, The Metamorphosis of Narcissus, 1937.
- 23. Jean-Francois Millet, The Angelus 1857-59.
- 24. Dali, Archeological Reminiscence of Millet's Angelus, 1933-35.
- 25. Salvador Dali, The Temptation of St. Anthony, 1946.
- 26. 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
- 27. 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.
- 28. Joan Miro Dutch Interior I 1928.
- 29. Joan Miro, Harlequin’s Carnival, 1924-25.
- 33. Exquisite Corpses Lessons from the Surrealist Movement
- 44. Apocalyptic Digital Collage Collect 15 images of interesting What to do with these pictures? textures or landscapes. • Eventually we are going to use • Create a folder in you’re my these textures to build a landscape, Documents called Surrealist Project. Ex. Tire treads, sand dunes, bricks, •When you find all 15 images, save leaves, rocks, lightning, lava, them to your surrealist folder. tornados, etc. • Open a new document named Apocalyptic Surrealist Collage. • A landscape is a picture of a place. • Select areas you like from the pictures using a selection tool. • You need to find pictures that will • Copy and paste, drag or open these eventually make a sky and a ground. images into the empty document. • Arrange, crop, erase, warp these images to make your landscape. • Fill all the space.
- 45. Requirements for Collage Requirements What to look for • Minimum 10 pictures needed to come together to make the collage. •Different Textures • all pieces must fit together to make one picture. • Different Objects • Not a collection of squares of pictures put together. • Different Landscapes • Must be a standard size 8 ½ x 10 inch document. • Apocalyptic Symbols • You need a horizon line.
- 46. Ideas to Search For • Dessert • Grass • Water • Volcanoes • Rocks • Wallpaper • Clouds • Cereal • Shooting Stars • Food • Natural Disasters • Animal Skin • Tree Bark • Tornadoes • Leaves • Lightning • Plants • Fractals • Hair • Diamonds • Hardwood Floors • Trash • Jungle • Rain