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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
Meissonier
Dali, The bread Basket
Accommodations of Desire, 1929
Dali. Lugubrious Game 1929
Dali, Persistence of Memory, 1931
Compare to Magritte’s painting
Dali, The great Masturbator, 1929
Dali, Spain
Dali, Crucifixion
Magritte
Magritte, treachery of images
Magritte, human condition
Key of dreams , magritte
Magritte, The son of Man 1946
MASSON, STREET MANNEQUIN, 1938
Magritte, Dangerous Liaisons, 1926
Leonora Carrington, self portrait, 1936
Remedios Varos, Mimesis. 1960
Leonor Fini, At ends of earth 1949
Remedios Varos, Harmony 1955
Frida and Diego, 1931