Dada and surrealism:
Max Ernst:
Title Two Children Are Threatened by a
Nightingale
Max Ernst
Women on lef waves around a knife to
defend herself
Other child lies unconscious on the
ground
Fat man on the roof has his hand
stretched out to touch a real doorbell
Red gate is made of real wood
Real frame adds to harsh/ cruel mood
Suppose to be creepy
He infuenced surrealism
Title Europe afer rain
Max Ernst
Technique decalcomania = textured wet
paint, pressed onto another surface, which
is then peeled off Results = semi accidental
Figure = not realistic, looks futuristic
Everything is just meant to be destroyed
Represents destruction and ruin
It is an allegory for the destruction of
European civilizationf
Once civilisation is taken away then chaotic
mess of half formed nightmares remain
Nightmare version of the surrealist hope
that nature would swallow civilization
This work shows the aferlife of war and
the remains
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, Sigmund Freud:
Discovered psychoanalysis
Austrian doctor
Theories of the subconscious
Behaviour efected by the unconscious
He believed that subconscious efected unconscious
Brain = consciousness is divided into 3 parts
1f ID basic animal instinct
2f EGO dominates ID
3f superego controls above ego making you feel guilty
unconscious = therefor illogical
Surrealism definition:
intended to express, either verbally or in writing the true function of though
surrealism = based on belief in the superiority reality of certain forms of association in the
play of though or in a dream
it leads to permanent destruction of psychic mechanisms and to the substitutions of the
problems of life
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Max Ernst:
Title Two Children Are Threatened by a
Nightingale
Max Ernst
Women on lef waves around a knife to
defend herself
Other child lies unconscious on the
ground
Fat man on the roof has his hand
stretched out to touch a real doorbell
Red gate is made of real wood
Real frame adds to harsh/ cruel mood
Suppose to be creepy
He infuenced surrealism
Title Europe afer rain
Max Ernst
Technique decalcomania = textured wet
paint, pressed onto another surface, which
is then peeled off Results = semi accidental
Figure = not realistic, looks futuristic
Everything is just meant to be destroyed
Represents destruction and ruin
It is an allegory for the destruction of
European civilizationf
Once civilisation is taken away then chaotic
mess of half formed nightmares remain
Nightmare version of the surrealist hope
that nature would swallow civilization
This work shows the aferlife of war and
the remains
1
, Sigmund Freud:
Discovered psychoanalysis
Austrian doctor
Theories of the subconscious
Behaviour efected by the unconscious
He believed that subconscious efected unconscious
Brain = consciousness is divided into 3 parts
1f ID basic animal instinct
2f EGO dominates ID
3f superego controls above ego making you feel guilty
unconscious = therefor illogical
Surrealism definition:
intended to express, either verbally or in writing the true function of though
surrealism = based on belief in the superiority reality of certain forms of association in the
play of though or in a dream
it leads to permanent destruction of psychic mechanisms and to the substitutions of the
problems of life
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