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And artist RENE MAGRITTE
SURREALISM And artist RENE MAGRITTE
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Surrealism is a 20th-century literary and artistic movement that attempts to express the workings of the subconscious by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter. Surrealism is a term that refers to a heightened sense of reality; translated from French, the term means over-realism--a vision of reality that supercedes the mundane
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Rene Magritte (pronounced: rna mägrt, 1898-1967)
"My painting is visible images which conceal nothing; they evoke mystery and, indeed, when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable."René Magritte
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Rene Magritte was a Belgian surrealist painter
Rene Magritte was a Belgian surrealist painter. He painted in a realistic style. While the objects appear to the viewer to be recognizable, the composition of those recognizable objects appear fantastic. His paintings are expressive for their juxtaposition of common objects, often altered in scale, and placed in absurd settings. Magritte is deeply interested in the process of thought, and his paintings tend to raise the awareness of the viewer to their own thought processes. Rene Magritte
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More often than not, Magritte chose ordinary things from which to construct his works - trees, chairs, tables, doors, windows, shoes, shelves, landscapes, people. He wanted to be understood via these ordinary things, but he also wanted to shock and surprise his viewers. Rene Magritte
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Surrealistic Techniques “How to make the ordinary look extraordinary”
Scale Levitation Juxtaposition Dislocation Transparency Transformation
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Changing an object’s scale, or relative size.
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SCALE
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Personal Values SCALE
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Floating objects that don’t normally float
LEVITATION Floating objects that don’t normally float
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LEVITATION
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Golconde LEVITATION
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Joining two images together in impossible combinations
JUXTAPOSITION Joining two images together in impossible combinations
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JUXTAPOSITION
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JUXTAPOSITION
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DISLOCATION Taking an object form its usual environment and placing it in an unfamiliar one
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DISLOCATION
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DISLOCATION
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Making objects transparent that are not usually transparent
TRANSPARENCY Making objects transparent that are not usually transparent
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TRANSPARENCY
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TRANSPARENCY
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TRANSPARENCY
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TRANSPARENCY
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Changing objects in unusual way
TRANSFORMATION Changing objects in unusual way
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TRANSFORMATION
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TRANSFORMATION
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