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Grade 12 Visual Arts - Surrealism Summary

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This summary on Surrealism explores its connection to the subconscious, the use of irrational imagery, and symbolic themes. Covering prominent artists like Salvador Dalí and René Magritte, this guide delves into how Surrealists pushed boundaries to express hidden emotions and dreamlike scenes

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Characteristics - -
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Interested
· in chance art and the absence BACKGROUND :
of logic in art (from dada) but more intense
,
· founded in Paris 1924 ,
,
by artists who
sought to channel

·
objects and scenes are painted in a realistic the unconcious as a means to unlock the
power of imagination
but positioning is Irrational . surrealist
·
disdain for rationalism and literary realism
way :
Written by Andre Brenton and focused on art and
Visual puns view Manifesto digust the same and disconnection daddist felt motivated
· 2
meaning or points literature based on S Freud's psycho analytic technique
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Hidden imagery of imagery with and free association as a means of exploring the Imagination surrealists thus many daddists became surrealists
strong symbolism
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· art has a very strong connection to the Interest
·
in art of children and the insane -

art produced
lacks concious
subconcious
IREINE IMAGRIITIE thought
· expiramented with drugs and alcohol to achieve this state

SIALWIAID DIR IDIALII
Was a Belgian painter who's work characteristically involved themes include sexuality violence and
that do not
~
death-things
blending objects
,


logically belong together . Work
Spanish painter and one of the best known suppressed by concious mind
often erotic ,
humourous and disturbing . Paintings exploring the
surrealists. his technique was
highly realistic
relationship between an object and the painted version of the
His work had a strong sense of depth and precise
object His style
.
was unemotional and anonymous making
KEY CONCEPTS
detall often Surrealism has come to be seen the most influencial movement
,
as
containing luminous color . ·
his Violent and sexual disturbing . His works
,




Transforms images more
20th century
common objects into nightmarish objects In the and had influence on avant-garde art
realistic to a point of almost creating an Illusion however his
,
, surrealism is defined as 'psychic automatism in its pure state ,
The persistence of context size and juxtaposition is unrealistic .
,

by which one proposes to express -




verbally ,
by Written word ,

Memory (1931) or in any other manner
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the actual functioning of
thought.
The Treachary of Images :

o
depicts a series of mel /



watches surrounded
This is not a pipe' (1929)
ting CII DIRGIID IDE DIHIRIIKO
by swarming ants . · Visual pun that challenges definitions
Originally Dadaist but developed into
,

a a
idea of decay and sub within representional art
· The work hints at the
,
surrealist style and practiced metaphysical
Magritte claimed that this is an
,


softening
·
verts inherent textual properties , the
painting
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"pittura metafiscical
of hard objects and Vice-versa . The clocks "Image' of a pipe rather than an actual pipe
known for his Isolationsf objects to call into question Place d Italie (circa. 1950)
is
symbolizing mortality . Strange use of colour .
·
Magritte
the symbolic resonance for the viewer combination of
· perspective
Swans Reflecting Elephants construction and architectural
(1937) The Rape (1945) Renaissance
setting
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· repretation of his mother who ,
he saw ·
unlikey marble reclining
fished out the river Sambre age 14, figure -

classical Greek

(suicide) body found naked but face covered ·
Train in background-industrial/passage of time
Geopolitius (1943) ·
the image is
phallic and penetrates · shadows of unseen people ,
create a sense of

the view of the public (provocative ceriness isolation and
,
foreboding mystery

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