An art movement in the early 1900’s that was obsessed with dreams, psychology, sex, and death. The surrealists also wanted to reveal the hidden desires and fears of society…possibly to destroy it…or to fall in love with it. Or both. The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí 1931
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SurrealismAn art movement in the early 1900’s that was
obsessed with dreams, psychology, sex, and death. The surrealists also wanted to reveal the hidden
desires and fears of society…possibly to destroy it…or to fall in love with it.
Or both.
The Persistence of Memory
by Salvador Dalí 1931
Mastering what he called "the usual paralyzing tricks of eye-fooling," Dalí painted this work with
"the most imperialist fury of precision…to systematize confusion and thus to help discredit
completely the world of reality." The Persistence of
Memory Oil on canvas
by Salvador Dalí 1931
JuxtapositionTo place objects
near or overlapping each other for a
contrasting or ironic effect
Le violin de IngresGelatin silver print
by Man Ray 1924
Positive & Negative Space
When an artist uses the empty space that surrounds an object to create a secondary shape or object.
Dali Skull Photograph by Phillipe Halsman, 1951
Repetition
Golconda
Oil on canvas
by Rene Magritte 1953
Raices Oil on
by Frida Kahlo1943
The reoccurrence of an event, thing, or action. Surrealists will use repetition to create drama or ridiculousness.
Metamorphosis of the Narcissus by Salvador Dalí 1937
Metamorphosis is when you show one object transforming into another.
Narcissus,in his immobility,absorbed by his reflection with the digestive slowness of carnivorous plants,becomes invisible.There remains of him only the hallucinatingly white oval of his head,his head again more tender,his head, chrysalis of hidden biological designs,his head held up by the tips of the water's fingers,at the tips of the fingersof the insensate hand,of the terrible hand,of the mortal handof his own reflection.When that head slitswhen that head splitswhen that head bursts,it will be the flower,the new Narcissus,Gala - my Narcissus
The SurrealistsApproved of by André Breton
“I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.”
Yves Tanguy
Indefinite Divisibility
oil on canvas
1942
Yves Tanguy
Slowly Towards the North
oil on canvas
1942
Yves Tanguy
Shadow Country 1927
•Spent time in Africa while serving in the French Army.•Obsessed with amorphic shapes.•Sometimes called “Lunar Landscapes,” but his work predates space travel.
Victor Brauner
Self Portrait
Oil on canvas
1931
Victor Brauner
The Head of Benjamin Fondane,
Oil on canvas
1931
Victor Brauner
Composition with Portrait
Oil on canvas
1930
Victor Brauner
Untitled
Oil on canvas
date unknown
Victor Brauner
• Born in Romania• Obsessed with
eyes.• Paints self
portraits in the 1930’s, all with the same damaged eye.
Victor Brauner
And then in 1938….
Victor Brauner"Each painting that I make is projected from the deepest sources of my anxiety..."
Photo from 1966
Alan CummingYves Tanguy
Alan Cumming Salvador Dalí
Coincidence vs. FateNotebook Essay
Was it a coincidence that Victor Brauner “predicted” his own injury? Or was it his fate?
Was Victor Brauner destined to lose an eye? Or is this an accidental occurrence?
Write a short essay where you back up one of these claims with evidence from your own
experience.
René Magritte
“It is a union that suggests the essential mystery of the world. Art for me is not an end in itself, but a means of evoking that mystery.” René Magritte on putting seemingly unrelated objects together in juxtaposition
Le fils de l'homme1964Oil on canvas
Rene Magritte
“An object never serves the same function as its image or its name”
The Treachery of Images
1928-29
Oil on canvas
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