Surrealism

SURREALISMSteve Lin

Vinci Chen

Gabe Martino

Dadaism

•Surrealism split from Dadaism during WWI

•Anti-War •Split

• Communist - Surrealist• Anarchist – Dadaist

Nude Descending a StaircaseDuchamp - 1913

ComparisonDada

Höch Cut With the Kitchen Knife

Hannah Höch - 1919

SurrealismTriumph Over Surrealism

Max Ernst - 1937

Guillaume Apollinaire

• Coined the term “surrealism”• Las Mamelles de Tirésias

• “New Spirit”• Theatre• Key Aspects

• Surprise• Imagination• Invention

André Breton

•1896-1966•Founded Surrealism

•October 11, 1924•Manifestó de Surréalisme

Manifestó de Surréalisme

•1924-1966•Sur-Realism = Beyond-Realism•Provided Definition and Examples•Delineated Goals of Surrealism

• Automatism• Imagination• Distinct Poles/Aspects

Les Champs Magnétiques

• First Surrealist Piece• 1919

• Authors:• André Breton• Philippe Soupault

• Non-Sensical• Accounts of Dreams• No Plot

Joan Miró

• Catalan Painter and Sculptor

• 1893 – 1983• Symbolic Art

• Internal Images

• Relational Pictorial Space

• Bold + Expressive• Numerous Types of Art

The Catalan LandscapeJoan Miró - 1924

Woman and BirdsJoan Miró

MAN RAYAugust 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976

Forms of Art • Cubism

• Dadaism

• Ready Made’s

• Surrealism

• Photography

Gift-1921• “Surrealist objects”

• Cultural restraints

• Ready made

• Dadaism

• Re-evaluate

Object to be Destroyed 1923

• Surrealist object

• Symbolic meaning

• Time

• Destruction

Major Influences

• Alfred Stieglitz- photography

Marcel Duchamp- Dadaism

Photography

• “Dada can not live in New York. All New York is dada, and will not tolerate a rival”.

• Photographer for famous artists in Paris

• Interest in minimalism and abstractionism

• rayographs

Rayographs

• Combination interest in abstractionism and minimalism

• Photographs

• Light

• objects

Surrealism Concepts

• Distorted objects• Cooler colors• Real objects• Abstruse contexts• Dreams vs. Reality• Unconscious• Sigmund Freud

SALVADOR DALIBorn: May 11, 1904

Died: Janurary 23, 1989

Was involved in many forms of art: Painting, Sculpting, Drawing, Writing, and Film.

He studied at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts out in Madrid

Salvador Dali and the movement

“ The most important things that can happen to any painter in our time are these: 1 to be Spanish. 2 to be called Salvador Dali.”

A Few Things about Dali• Dali was from a young age very enamurated with art• Many of his works contain secual references• He compared to many of surrealists of the time was not

involved with communist ideas.• Later in his life, he became a Catholic and decreed he

had finished his work with surrealism

Three Sphinxes of Bikinis

Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time

Venus de Milo with drawers

• Many Ideas in some of Dali’s physical works such as sculptures used contrasting ideas to draw emphasis.

• He added many times a sexual twist to an otherwise plain object or work

Hallucination Partielle