Surrealism began in the 1920s as an artistic movement that aimed to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams through techniques like automatic drawing. Key figures like Andre Breton and Salvador Dali created dreamlike works using elements of surprise and free association. While initially focused on automatism, later Surrealist art depicted meticulously rendered hallucinatory scenes. Feminist critics argue that Surrealism marginalized women's roles, and Freudian critics believe the unconscious cannot be directly expressed through art.

1. Surrealism “ I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.” –Andre breton- First Surrealist Manifesto.

3. Giorgio di Chirico The Child’s Brain 1914

11. Andre Messon Meditation on an Oak Leaf

12. Andre Masson Battle of the Fishes 1927

13. Joan Miro, Carnival of Harlequin , 1924

14. Joan Miro The Hunter (Catalan Landscape) 1923-1924

16. Max Ernst Gray Forest 1927

18. Salvador Dali The Persistence of Memory

19. Salvador Dali Temptation of Anthony

20. Salvador Dali Sleep 1937

21. Salvador Dali Autumnal Cannibalism 1936

22. Rene Magritte The Lovers 1928

23. Rene Magritte Le Faux Mirior 1928

24. Rene Magritte The Son of Man 1964

25. Rene Magritte The Treachery of Images 1929

26. Yves Tanguy Mama, Papa is Wounded! 1927

27. Yves Tanguy Indefinite Divisibility 1942

28. Yves Tanguy Extinction of Useless Lights 1927

29. Feminist Criticisms of Surrealism Feminists claim that the Surrealist movement was fundamentally a male movement despite the occasional few celebrated female Surrealist painters and poets. They believe that it adopts typical male attitudes towards women. For example, many artists portrayed women in a stereotypical way, following sexist norms. A pioneer of the feminist critique of surrealism was Xaviere Gauthier. Her book, Surrealisme et Sexualite inspired the importance of scholarship related to marginalization of women in relation to the avant-garde. The criticisms were of women having much more subordinate roles in comparison with the men.

30. Freudian Criticism Freud initiated the psychoanalytic critique of Surrealism that stated that he was more interested in the Surrealist conscious rather than the unconscious. In this view the Surrealists may have created great works but they were products of the conscious, not the unconscious mind. The unconscious cannot express itself automatically, but can only be uncovered through the analysis of resistance and transference in the psychoanalytic process.

31. Surrealist Film http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVbTEVfLksU

32. THIS IS NOT MR. READ!! Applications of Surrealist Techniques…