1. 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
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2. 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.
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4. Surrealism
• Related to but different from DADA
• Manifesto created by Breton in 1924
• Freud
Automatism
Hallucination
Irrational thought associations
Dreams
21. 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
22. 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