1. Surrealist Movement Sigmund Freud – Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline Psychoanalysis Freud’s essay On Dreams (1901) he examines “dream-thoughts” Freud’s ideas for the visual arts of the 20 th century were profound especially for the Surrealist Movement Dream-like images captured poetic quality in artists works

2. The word “surrealism” was coined by Guillame Apollinaire, French poet in 1917 French critic Andre Breton’s “Surrealist Manifesto” Forms of Surrealism: Abstract Surrealism and Visionary Surrealism

3. Maria Izquierdo (1902-1955) Autorretrato, 1947

4. Maria Izquierdo Mexican surrealistic painter of the late 1920s through 1940s Izquierdo’s Background Diego Rivera worshipped Izquierdo’s work First Mexican woman to have a solo exhibit outside of Mexico Izquierdo’s relationship with Rufino Tamayo inspired her artwork Izquierdo’s Legacy

5. El Circo (1939)El Payaso (1945) Escena de Circo (1940) For Izquierdo the allure of the circus dates back to her childhood. San Juan de Los Lagos, Jalisco where she was born, had a famous annual festival which included a traveling circus

6. El Mantel Rojo (1940) Calvario (1933) Here a red mantle is held by a woman with her back to us, facing the open door of a thatched house that might be a stable Calvario, features campesinos carrying out the religious rituals of death. In the image, the mourning woman has on a rebozo and is kneeling not paying attention to the horse

7. Maternidad (1944) Hombre Con Caballo (1932) Izquierdo often used horses to comment on the Mexican nation, history and national identity

8. Naturaleza Muerta (1932)

9. Estacion Tropical (1940) In the background is a ruined building, banana plants, a boy in a sailor suit blows a trumpet. A railway line disappears in the distance

10. Gato Sabio (1943)

11. Sueños y Pensamientos (1947) This painting demonstrates a clear vision of herself, in a window of metaphysical dimension, holding her own decapitated head as her body, still walking, becomes lost in the distance of steps leading to a void

12. El Idilio (1946) This is one of her least “Mexican” paintings of her collection. Bare trees frame a fountain with a statue of Venus. A coy girl and her suitor are depicted sitting on the fountain.

13. Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)

14. Frida Kahlo, the Artist Considered one of Mexico’s most celebrated artists of the 20 th century “two great accidents” of her life: a bus crash that at the age of 18 left her disabled & her stormy marriage to the notorious Mexican mural painter Diego Rivera Fervent Marxist and a nationalist Her paintings bring to life the experience of chronic pain and psychic Her work identifies with Mexican folk culture & art

15. Self Portrait, 1926 by Frida Kahlo “I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best” – Frida Kahlo

16. Wedding Portrait, 1931 by Frida Kahlo “I have suffered two serious accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar ran over me…the other accident is Diego” – Frida Kahlo

17. Henry Ford Hospital, 1932 by Frida Kahlo A naked Kahlo appears on a hospital bed with several items – a fetus, a snail, a flower, a pelvis – floating around her connected to her by a vein like string Her work emphasized terror, suffering, wounds and pain

18. Self-Portrait on the Border between Mexico and the United States, 1932 by Frida Kahlo

20. My Grandparents, My Parents, and I (Family Tree), 1936 by Frida Kahlo

21. The Two Fridas (1939) This painting represent “unloved” and “loved” versions of Kahlo

22. The Broken Column, 1944 by Frida Kahlo In this painting, Kahlo pictures herself as a sufferer and savior, an emblematic figure that recalls the devotional icons of Mexico’s religious shrines

23. The Love Embrace of the Universe, the Earth (Mexico), Diego, Me and Señor Xólotl (1949)

24. Still Life with Parrot and Fruit (1951)

25. Viva La Vida (1954)

26. Many Mexican artist and writers of this period leaned towards Marxist thought and were Communists