Surrealism · 2019. 2. 5. · Surrealism • Surrealism is a 20th-century literary and artistic movement that attempted to express the workings of the subconscious by using fantasy

Surrealism

Surrealism

• Surrealism is a 20th-century literary and artistic movement that attempted to express the workings of the subconscious by using fantasy images and the juxtaposition of subject matter

• So what does that mean?

Surrealism is a term that refers to a heightened sense of reality; translated from French, the term means: “over-realism”-- a vision of reality that supercedes the mundane!

Surrealism Reasons

• Freedom• Break with tradition• Dreams• Tapping the subconscious• Questioning “what is real”• Element of chance

Surrealist Techniques - Making the Ordinary

Extraordinary• Scale• Levitation• Juxtaposition• Dislocation• Transparency• Transformation

SCALE

Changing an object’s scale, or relative size.

SCALE

Personal Values

SCALE

LEVITATIONFloating objects that don’t normally float

LEVITATION

Golconde

LEVITATION

JUXTAPOSITIONJoining two images

together in impossible combinations - usually in strange

and unusual, surprising and funny ways

DISLOCATION

Taking an object from its usual environment and placing it in an unfamiliar one

DISLOCATION

TRANSPARENCYMaking objects transparent

that are not usually transparent

TRANSPARENCY

TRANSPARENCY

TRANSFORMATION

Changing objects in unusual way

TRANSFORMATION