Surrealism Powerpoint

Surrealism

Marc Chagall Poet With Birds 1911

Goal of surrealism:

To represent *all* of reality - not just

rational thought. What is in our

imagination is real, has value, and influences our actions.

Ridgefield

Man Ray, 1914

• Time is the theme here, from the melting watches to the decay implied by the swarming ants. The monstrous fleshy creature draped across the paintings center is an approximation of Dalís own face in profile. Mastering what he called "the usual paralyzing tricks of eye-fooling," Dalí painted this work with "the most imperialist fury of precision," but only, he said, "to systematize confusion and thus to help discredit completely the world of reality." There is, however, a nod to the real: The distant golden cliffs are those on the coast of Catalonia, Dalís home. -MoMA guidebook

Surrealism in theory• non-sequitor (literally “does not follow”

– Q:How many surrealist painters does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

– A: fish

• imaginary rules/laws/properties

• elements of reality(shadow, light, life-like objects)

• References to dream symbolism (animals, color & light patterns, life-like but impossible situations)

• Man Ray Marc Chagall

• Man Ray Salvador Dali

• Max Ernst Joan Miro

• Tanguy Tanguy

• Tanguy Tanguy

• Dali !

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• Dali again!

• Dali more….