2. What is Surrealism?
âą A 20th-century avant-garde movement in art
and literature that sought to release the
creative potential of the unconscious mind.
3. Intro to Surrealism
âą 1920âs-1930âs after WWI.
âą Surrealism developed out of the avant-garde
Dada movement.
âą Dada was more violent and less artistically
based compared to Surrealism.
âą It began in Paris in 1924 with Andre Bretonâs
Surrealist Manifesto.
4. Andre Breton
âą 1896-1966
âą He was a Dadaist and a
Communist.
âą Founding father and
leader of the Surrealist
movement.
âą âPsychic automatism in
its pure state, by which
one expresses⊠the
actual functioning of
thought.â
5. Sigmund Freud
âą Freud has many theories
on free association,
dream analysis, and the
unconscious.
âą Psychoanalytic
interpretation; used to
illuminate unconscious
mind.
6. Intro to Surrealism
âą Let go of traditional ways of painting.
âą Used drugs, alcohol, hypnotism, and
hallucinations to provoke the subconscious.
âą A combination of dreams and reality.
âą Investigated the mind and new areas of art.
7. Automatists
âą The way in which the
images of the
subconscious reached
the conscious.
âą Focused on feeling.
âą Did not believe in
meaning.
Andre Masson
Automatic Drawing
1924
8. Veristic
âą Shows the dream
world.
âą Deep meanings.
âą Subconscious
surfaces to the
conscious mind
where it can be
deciphered. Sleep
Salvador Dali
1937
9. Max Ernst
âą 1891-1976
âą German-born artist who
often worked with sculpture,
painting, and collages.
âą Founder of two surrealist
techniques decalcomania
and frottage.
15. Salvador Dali
âą 1904-1989
âą Born in Catalonia, Spain.
âą âHand-Painted Dream
Photographs.â
âą Paranoid-Critical
method.
âą Tried to decipher his
subconscoius world.
36. Influences
âą Surrealism taught the world to see art not
merely visually and literally; but to appreciate
it in a subconscious level as well.
âą Made America the art capital.
âą Resulted in Abstract Expressionism as well as
other movements.
37. Summary
âą Surrealism started from the Dada movement
with Andre Bretonâs Surrealist Manifesto.
âą It focused on painting images from the
subconscious.
âą It was influenced by Freudian Theories.
âą There were two types: Veristic and Automatic.
âą Lead into Abstract Expressionism and other
movements.