1. Surrealism & Pop Art

2. Surrealism By 1924 the Surrealist movement began to gain momentum.
This movement was determined to express art in the world of dreams and the unconscious.
This was inspired by the work of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.

3. Surrealism Surrealism took two different paths. Biomorphic Surrealist
Basically abstract art with some suggestion of natural forms.
Naturalistic Surrealist
They presented paintings in recognizable scenes that seem to have morphed into a dream state.

4. Salvador Dali Is one of the most well known Surrealist painters.
Dali explored his psyche and dreams in his painting, sculptures, and jewelry.
Dali delved deep into the dream world and created imaginative and creative works of art.
Dali also studied Sigmund Freud.

5. The Persistence of Memory
Here he creates an empty space where time has ended.
An eerie never-setting sun illuminates the barren landscape.
This is Naturalistic Surrealism.

6. Rene Magritte Magritte liked to confuse his viewers in a way.
He liked to paint simple images and then confuse his viewers by making comments about the simple image.
This is apparent in Magritte’s The Treachery of Images.

7. The Treachery of Images
Magritte presents a painting of a pipe, simple enough.
But the caption underneath is what makes this confusing.
The caption simply means “This is not a pipe”

8. Surrealism
The Surrealist also enjoyed sculpture because it was art that was created in tangible form.
The most well know Surrealist sculpture is Luncheon in Fur.
This sculpture was created by Meret Oppenheim.

9. Luncheon in Fur
This sculpture captures the humor and visual appeal that Surrealist enjoyed.
This sculpture was inspired by a conversation with Picasso.

10. Pop Art
Much of the abstraction that we have been seeing up until now also confused the public during that time.
They produced art that was grounded in culture, mass media, and popular culture.
By doing so this made art a lot easier for the public to understand.
Pop Art is short for Popular Art

11. Roy Lichtenstein
As the Pop movement matured, the images became more concrete and tightly controlled.
Lichtenstein turned his attention to the comic book as a mainstay of American popular culture.
In paintings such as Hopeless he took an image from a comic book and immortalized the image in monumental scale.

12. Hopeless
Aside from just making it huge, Lichtenstein was very faithful to the original comic strip image.
Lichtenstein actually used the printing technique benday dots .
So he created his painting with large dots.

13. Roy Lichtenstien Up close view of a Lichtenstien painting.
How Lichtenstien made his dots.

14. Andy Warhol
The ideal American Pop Artist of this time was Andy Warhol.
He was very successful at an early age in commercial art and illustration.
This helped him immensely in his Pop Art work.

15. Green Coca-Cola Bottles
Warhol selected an object of mass production. Coca-Cola
The Coca-Cola bottle was a well known image of the time.
The repetition of the Coke bottle represents the dominance of this product in American Culture.

16. Green Coca-Cola Bottles
The silk screen technique Warhol used made it easy to print the same image endlessly.
Warhol was so immersed in the culture of mass production he named his studio “The Factory”