2. What is Surrealism?
⢠A 20th-century avant-garde movement in art
and literature that sought to release the
creative potential of the unconscious mind.
3. Intro to Surrealism
⢠1920âs-1930âs after WWI.
⢠Surrealism developed out of the avant-garde
Dada movement.
⢠Dada was more violent and less artistically
based compared to Surrealism.
⢠It began in Paris in 1924 with Andre Bretonâs
Surrealist Manifesto.
4. Andre Breton
⢠1896-1966
⢠He was a Dadaist and a
Communist.
⢠Founding father and
leader of the Surrealist
movement.
⢠âPsychic automatism in
its pure state, by which
one expresses⌠the
actual functioning of
thought.â
5. Sigmund Freud
⢠Freud has many theories
on free association,
dream analysis, and the
unconscious.
⢠Psychoanalytic
interpretation; used to
illuminate unconscious
mind.
6. Intro to Surrealism
⢠Let go of traditional ways of painting.
⢠Used drugs, alcohol, hypnotism, and
hallucinations to provoke the subconscious.
⢠A combination of dreams and reality.
⢠Investigated the mind and new areas of art.
7. Automatists
⢠The way in which the
images of the
subconscious reached
the conscious.
⢠Focused on feeling.
⢠Did not believe in
meaning.
Andre Masson
Automatic Drawing
1924
8. Veristic
⢠Shows the dream
world.
⢠Deep meanings.
⢠Subconscious
surfaces to the
conscious mind
where it can be
deciphered. Sleep
Salvador Dali
1937
9. Max Ernst
⢠1891-1976
⢠German-born artist who
often worked with sculpture,
painting, and collages.
⢠Founder of two surrealist
techniques decalcomania
and frottage.
15. Salvador Dali
⢠1904-1989
⢠Born in Catalonia, Spain.
⢠âHand-Painted Dream
Photographs.â
⢠Paranoid-Critical
method.
⢠Tried to decipher his
subconscoius world.
36. Influences
⢠Surrealism taught the world to see art not
merely visually and literally; but to appreciate
it in a subconscious level as well.
⢠Made America the art capital.
⢠Resulted in Abstract Expressionism as well as
other movements.
37. Summary
⢠Surrealism started from the Dada movement
with Andre Bretonâs Surrealist Manifesto.
⢠It focused on painting images from the
subconscious.
⢠It was influenced by Freudian Theories.
⢠There were two types: Veristic and Automatic.
⢠Lead into Abstract Expressionism and other
movements.