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Surrealism 1924-Is it really ever over?. Surrealism – KEY IDEAS Started by Andre Breton, French writer, who was also a member of the Dada movement. 1924.

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1 Surrealism 1924-Is it really ever over?

2 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

3 Max Ernst The Horde, 1927, oil on canvas. Grattage

4 Joan Miro’ Dutch Interior I, 1928. Oil on Canvas biomorphic

5 Salvador Dali What do you think? No need to know this title.

6 Dali The Persistence of Memory, 1931. Oil on Canvas

7 Meret Oppenheim Object. 1936. Fur-covered cup.

8 Frida Kahlo The Two Fridas. 1939, Oil on canvas.

9 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 Universe Fresco. 1930s?


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