Surrealism
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Surrealism
1924-Is it really ever over?
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Surrealism – KEY IDEAS
• Started by Andre Breton, French writer, who was also a member of the Dada movement.
• 1924 – Published “Manifesto of Surrealism”• Liberation of the individual’s unconscious• Rooted in the work of Freud and Jung• Automatism utilized to design without
conscious control: frottage/grattage• Representations of dreams/subconscious
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Max ErnstThe Horde, 1927, oil on canvas. •Grattage
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Joan Miro’Dutch Interior I, 1928. Oil on Canvas•biomorphic
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Salvador DaliWhat do you think? No need to know this title.
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Dali
• The Persistence of Memory, 1931. Oil on Canvas
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Meret OppenheimObject. 1936. Fur-covered cup.
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Frida KahloThe Two Fridas. 1939, Oil on canvas.
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Mexican Muralists•NOT SURREALISM!!!!! But Diego Rivera was married to Frida Kahlo, who, by the way, said she wasn’t a surrealist, but is usually considered one academically. •Themes often promoted a socialist agenda – heroic struggle of the worker•Revival of the fresco•Unmistakable meaning, very clear to viewer and easily understood. •Horror vacui•Dadactic painting•Colorful
Man, Controller of the UniverseFresco. 1930s?