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
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objects and scenes are painted in a realistic the unconcious as a means to unlock the
power of imagination
but positioning is Irrational . surrealist
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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
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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
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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
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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 .
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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