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Surrealism
• Andre Breton
• Freud
• Andre Masson • Battle of Fishes, 1927
• Joan Miro
• The Hunter 1923-4• Harlequin’sCarnival 1925
Dutch Interiors II 1928 • Self Portrait 1937• Poetess 1940• Blue 1961
• Rene Magritte • The treachery of Images 1928-9• .
Breton
• “I believe in the future resolution of these two states , dream and reality , which are so seemingly contradictory into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality.
• Dictionary Definition: • Psychic automatism in its pure state by which
one proposes to express, verbally, or by other, means the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by thought , IN THE ABSENCE OF ANY CONTROL OF EXERCISED REASON, EXEMPT FROM ANY AESTHETIC OR MORAL CONCERN.
Surrealism
• Related to but different from DADA
• Manifesto created by Breton in 1924
• Freud
Automatism
Hallucination
Irrational thought associations
Dreams
EXQUISITE CORPSE
Two strands of surrealism
• Biomorphic
• Masson and miro
AND
• Realistic and recognizable
• Magritte and dali
ANDRE MASSON
Max Ernst, The Horde, 1927
Max Ernst, Surrealism and Painting, 1942
JOAN MIRO
• Catalan
• Spent time in paris
• But returned to native Spain a lot
• Influenced by cezanne, matisse, picasso
JOAN MIRO
HUNTER , 1923
Jean arp
Miro, harlequin’s carnival
Bosch, garden of delights
Van Steen, Dancing Cat’s lesson
Miro, dutch interiors II
Salvador dali
• Catalan
• Symbolizes above all others surrealism
• Mastered all techniques taught to him at he academy
• Freud
• Idolizes meissonnier and vermeer
• Paranoic-critical method
Slidelist
• DALI • Bread Basket 1920s• Accommodation of Desires
1929• Lugubrious Game 1929• The Great Masturbator 1929• Persistence of memory 1931• Spain 1930s• Crucifixion 1960s
• Paranoic-critical method
• Magritte
• Treachery of Images • Key of Dreams 1930s• Human Condition • Hegel’s Holiday • Sound Room • Castle of the Pyrenees 1959