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Surrealism FINAL

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Surrealism

Gabby LeBlancLuke Hazen

Arjun Chadha

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What is Surrealism?

• A 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind.

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Intro to Surrealism

• 1920’s-1930’s after WWI.• Surrealism developed out of the avant-garde

Dada movement.• Dada was more violent and less artistically

based compared to Surrealism.• It began in Paris in 1924 with Andre Breton’s

Surrealist Manifesto.

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Andre Breton• 1896-1966• He was a Dadaist and a

Communist. • Founding father and

leader of the Surrealist movement.

• “Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one expresses… the actual functioning of thought.”

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Sigmund Freud

• Freud has many theories on free association, dream analysis, and the unconscious.

• Psychoanalytic interpretation; used to illuminate unconscious mind.

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Intro to Surrealism

• Let go of traditional ways of painting.• Used drugs, alcohol, hypnotism, and

hallucinations to provoke the subconscious. • A combination of dreams and reality. • Investigated the mind and new areas of art.

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Automatists• The way in which the

images of the subconscious reached the conscious.

• Focused on feeling.• Did not believe in

meaning.

Andre MassonAutomatic Drawing

1924

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Veristic

• Shows the dream world.

• Deep meanings.• Subconscious

surfaces to the conscious mind where it can be deciphered. Sleep

Salvador Dali1937

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Elephant Celebus1921

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Loplop introduces Loplop1930

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Pieta or Revolution by Night1923

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Europe After the Rain1940

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Salvador Dali

• 1904-1989• Born in Catalonia, Spain.• “Hand-Painted Dream

Photographs.”• Paranoid-Critical

method.• Tried to decipher his

subconscoius world.

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The Persistence of Memory 1931

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Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate One Second Before Awakening1944

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Daddy Long-Legs of the Evening… Hope!1929

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Soft Construction with Boiled Beans1936

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Rene Magritte

• 1898-1967• Core of the Belgian

Surrealist group • Experienced his

mother’s suicide

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The Red

Model 1937

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The False Mirror 1928

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The Lovers 1928

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The Treachery of Images 1929

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The Rape 1934

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The Dream 1940

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Joan Miro

• 1893-1983• Born in Barcelona• Automatist• Catalan Nationalist

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TheFarm

1921-1922

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Maternity 1924

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Carnival of the Harlequin1924-1925

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The Hunter (Catalan Landscape)1924

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Influences

• Surrealism taught the world to see art not merely visually and literally; but to appreciate it in a subconscious level as well.

• Made America the art capital.• Resulted in Abstract Expressionism as well as

other movements.

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Summary

• Surrealism started from the Dada movement with Andre Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto.

• It focused on painting images from the subconscious.

• It was influenced by Freudian Theories.• There were two types: Veristic and Automatic.• Lead into Abstract Expressionism and other

movements.