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    Surrealism was an avant-garde artistic movement that began in literature in Paris in 1924 after World War 1 and dispersed with the threat of World War 2. It was influenced by Sigmund Freud's theories about the subconscious mind and sought to liberate the subconscious through techniques like automatism, unexpected juxtapositions, and drawing inspiration from dreams. Major surrealist artists included Salvador Dali, Frida Kahlo, and Rene Magritte.

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    Surrealism was an avant-garde artistic movement that began in literature in Paris in 1924 after World War 1 and dispersed with the threat of World War 2. It was influenced by Sigmund Freud's theories about the subconscious mind and sought to liberate the subconscious through techniques like automatism, unexpected juxtapositions, and drawing inspiration from dreams. Major surrealist artists included Salvador Dali, Frida Kahlo, and Rene Magritte.

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    Surrealism

    Melina Pérez
    What is Surrealism?
    Avant-garde movement that begun in Literature in Paris, 1924 (after WWI), and dispersed with the threat of a
    WW2.
    André Breton, writer, poet: “Surrealist Manifesto”

    However, this term first appeared in the writings of Guillaume Apollinaire in 1917 when describing Jean
    C Cocteau’s ballet parade

    -liberation of the individual


    -Reacting against a society responsible for sending millions of people to their deaths
    Characteristics
    Influenced by Sigmund Freud:
    Subconscious as the means of revolution: sought to liberate the subconscious mind in their art
    Reach the unconscious parts of the mind and reveal one’s true nature
    Theory of dreams

    Distrust of logic
    Love of the absurd, focused on dreams
    Techniques
    Techniques that celebrated the serendipitous or random, pushing away the rational

    Depiction of dream-like images


    Paranoiac Critical Method (Dalí)
    Color: saturated or monochromatic
    Grattage
    Unexpected juxtaposition: combining unlike objects for visual contrast.
    Can create sense of humor but also can make you deeply uneasy
    Automatism: expressive images without engaging the rational mind, improvisation
    Chance operations to get to automatism. Frottage, decalcomania

    Drawing from other cultures


    Collage
    Surrealist Artists
    Salvador Dalí
    Frida Kahlo
    Meret Oppenheim
    Man Ray
    Remedios Varo
    René Magritte
    Max Ernst
    C

    The Persistence of Memory - Salvador Dalí, 1931


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