1. This is not a PowerPoint.
Why would someone say this? Why would someone want to confuse you?
To MAKE YOU THINK IN A DIFFERENT MANNER

2. “Elephants are contagious.”
-Paul Eluard
I’m not catching an elephant cold!
People thought Eluard was nuts.  Inspired by Andre Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto to create works without actually THINKING about what they were writing/creating.

3. Birth of Surrealism World War I a better way?
Dada movement> ANGER about WWI and wealthy population’s treatment of lower classes
Surrealism> despair and frustration>> is there a better way to think/behave? Tap into subconscious state to find those answers.
World War I
a better way?

4. Andre Breton The Surrealist Manifesto Surreality Subconscious/
Andre Breton 1924> “Manifeste du Surréalisme”
“Under the pretense of civilization and progress, we have managed to banish from the mind everything that may rightly or wrongly be termed superstition, or fancy; forbidden is any kind of search for truth which is not in conformance with accepted practices.”
Breton calls surrealism “…to express…the actual functioning of thought.”
Subconscious/
Dreams
Conscious/
Reality

5. “Marvellous is always beautiful, everything marvellous is beautiful.”
Andre Breton 1924> “Manifeste du Surréalisme”
“Under the pretense of civilization and progress, we have managed to banish from the mind everything that may rightly or wrongly be termed superstition, or fancy; forbidden is any kind of search for truth which is not in conformance with accepted practices.”
Breton calls surrealism “…to express…the actual functioning of thought.”

6. Rethink Reality trompe l’oeil= “trick of the eye” Magritte
The Human Condition

7. Escher
Drawing Hands

8. Rob Gonsalves Marcianos

9. Distortion
Salvador Dali
Persistence of Memory

10. Vladmir Kush

11. Vladmir Kush

12. Incongruous Juxtaposition
Salvador Dali
Lobster with Telephone

13. Jeff Koons
Mountains

14. Vladmir Kush