Literature/Discussion 14
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THESURREALISTICREVOLUTION.pptxWHAT IS SURREALISM?
“An artist or writer who is an exponent of the avant-garde movement in art and literature which sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind”
Where?
Movement started in Paris
When?
Movement born in October 1924
Who?
André Breton
The Interpretation of Dreams (1899) by Sigmund Freud was a major revelation for the movement.
Freud approved the importance of dreams and unconscious to reveal human desires, emotions, sexuality, and creativity.
= philosophical basis of surrealism
Surrealists use dreams, unconscious, and automatism to contest social conventions.
Surrealist artists honor the irrational, the fantastical, the symbols, and the eccentricity.
La clairvoyance (1936) - René Magritte
The Persistence of Memory (1932) – Salvador Dali
In paintings and writings, artists have extensively used Surrealist Automatism, which is a technique of art making in which the hand moves randomly across the paper.
Automatism allows the unconscious mind to create
Automatic drawing (1924) - André Masson
Automatic painting - Joan Miró
Surrealist artists use numerous techniques to express their minds and to find inspiration.
Exquisite Corpse (1927) – Miro, Tanguy, Ray, and Morise
Calligrammes – Guillaume Appolinaire
Bulletism - The Lugubrious Game (1969) – Salvador Dali
Collages – Memory of Oceana (1952) – Henri Matisse
Sculpture – Emil Alzamora (2004)
Cinema – L’Age d’Or (1930) - Buñuel and Dali
Photography – Guy Bourdin (1928)
After World War II, the group was challenged by a new movement called Existentialism.
Surrealist techniques and ideas are still in use, as they enable creative liberties.
Today, Surrealism does not exist as ideology.
Icons Breton, Eluard, Picasso, Dali, Miró, Braque, Aragon, Khalo, Giacometti, Oppenheim, Masson, Zürn, Magritte, Bourgeois, Cocteau, Ray, Buñuel, Ernst, Bourdin, …
Works cited
Fer, Briony, David Batchelor, and Paul Wood. Realism, rationalism, suurealism: art between the wars. Vol. 3. Yale University Press, 1993
Man, Joan. “How the Surrealistic Movement Shaped the Course of Art History?” Arsty, 23 Sept. 2016, web. artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-what-is-surrealism. Accessed 24 Feb. 2017.
Oxford Dictionary
