Surrealism

1.) What is Surrealism? 20th-century movement in art and literature that tried to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, by using the irrational juxtaposition of strange images in dreamlike compositions.

Let’s break that down. 20th-century movement in art and literature that tried to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, by using the irrational juxtaposition of strange images in dreamlike compositions. What does the unconscious mind mean?

1a.) Unconscious mind…. Using the imagination as the primary resource Dropping the need to recreate reality Letting your creativity do the creating, not the brain Allowing your ideas to be random and dreamlike

Let’s break this down further. 20th-century movement in art and literature that tried to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, by using the irrational juxtaposition of strange images in dreamlike compositions. What does it mean by irrational juxtaposition?

Irrational Juxtaposition….. Juxtaposition means incorporating strange objects in contexts that don’t really make sense. For example…. http://www.charnine.com/paintings/page4/Blue_Surrealism.htm

2.) When did Surrealism take off? This began between 1910- 1920’s.

3.) What made this kick off? Surrealism in the art world actually was a result of a literary movement. This movement focused on automatic writing known as Automatism.

4.) What was automatism? Automatism tried to release the uninterrupted subconscious mind to produce something exciting and surprising. Surrealists took this idea and used it to create their surreal paintings.

5.) Who were some Surrealists? A. )Salvador Dalí

5.) Who were some Surrealists? B.) Rene Magritte http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/rene_magritte/index.html

5.) Who were some Surrealists? C.) Max Ernst

5.) Who were some Surrealists? D.) Yves Tanguy http://www.wikiart.org/en/yves-tanguy

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Rene Magritte The Son of Man

Salvador Dalí, Persistence of Memory

Max Ernst Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale

Yves Tanguy Indefinite Divisibility