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1 Surrealism 1924

2 Originally a literary movement, it explored dreams, the unconscious, the element of chance and multiple levels of reality. “more than real” “better than real”

3 WHY Surrealism in 1924? What was happening in the world around this time?

4 WHY Surrealism in 1924? What was happening in the world around this time? World War I (1914-1918) Sigmund Freud

5 Physically and psychologically, WWI destroyed Western civilization Countries Involved: Australia Austria Belgium Bulgaria Canada France Germany Great Britain Greece India Iraq Italy Japan Montenegro New Zealand Poland Portugal Rhodesia Romania Russia Serbia South Africa Turkey United States

6 Staggering destruction and loss of life TOTAL WWI CASUALTIES: 11,016,000

7 Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) The father of psychoanalysis In 1900, Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams, and introduced the wider public to the notion of the unconscious mindThe Interpretation of Dreams theorized that forgetfulness or slips of the tongue (now called "Freudian slips") were not accidental at all, but it was the "dynamic unconscious" revealing something meaningful. He said “Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.”

8 Andre Breton Poet “Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of the dream”

9 Surreal Odd Illogical Irrational Exciting

10 Reaction to chaos of WWI Influence of Freud: Dreams and subconscious Impossible scale Reversal of natural laws Double images Juxtaposition Characteristics of Surrealism

11 Where? France, Germany, Catalunya, Belgium Artists Max Ernst Salvador Dali Joan Miro Man Ray Rene Magritte

12 Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904–1989)

13 The Metamorphosis of Narcissus, 1937, Salvador Dali

14 Salvador Dali Persistence of Memory 1931

15 Salvador Dali Apparition

16 Rene Magritte (Belgian)

17 Rene Magritte

18 René Magritte Les valeurs personnelles (Personal Values) 1952

19 René Magritte La Chambre d'écoute (The Listening Room) 1952 (impossible scale)

20 “Carte Blanche,” Rene Magritte Rene Magritte Carte Blanche

21 Concepts of unconscious realities and dream interpretation in Surrealism is further emphasized by Sigmund Freud's contributions to the new order of thought. Rene Magritte Ceci n’est pas une pipe

22 Rene Magritte (Reversal of Natural Laws)

23 Ideas for your Surrealist Portrait a) change the normal scale of objects (ex: a car the size of a living room or bugs the size of people) b) turn the accepted order of things upside down (ex: dogs walking people instead of people walking dogs) c) mix internal and external space (ex: trees growing in a kitchen, seeing the inside and outside of an object at the same time) d) transform one object into another (ex: a car turning into a fish, an animal turning into a person)

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