3. DEFINITION
Is the most important avant-garde movement of
the interwar period, and quite possibly the most
influential of them all. It was created in
1924, and around the surrealist manifest by
Andrè Breton, his spiritual guide. Artistic
movements, intelectual and general cultural
oriented around the pursuit of the liberation of
the mind, emphasizing the critical and imaginative
faculties of the unconscious and the attainment
of a different state, that the truest tangible
reality and everyday reality above.
4. FEATURES
- Pure psychic automatism, trying to express, verbally or in
writing or otherwise, the actual process of thought. The
thought, free from any control of reason, independent of moral or
aesthetic concerns.
- Used the irrational and unconscious as essential elements of
art. Proposes to transfer images from the unconscious to the
sphere of art through a mental exercise freely, without the
participation of consciousness.
- Surrealist techniques: Surrealist Art investigates new
techniques such as frottage, the
decalcomania, the grattage, the exquisite corpse or the automatic
painting.
- Topics: went looking for the sources
of psychological repression, dreams, sexuality, ...and social.
The primitive art of the poor, children's art, the art of the
mentally ill, were revalued.
6. Salvador Dalí
• He was a painter, decorator
and writer empordanese, one
of the main representatives
of surrealism. Their pictural
skills he usually attributed to
the influence and admiration
for Renaissance art. He had
the ability to forge a
personal and recognizable
style.
7. Joan Miró
• He was a Spanish Catalan
painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in
Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his
work, the Fundation Joan Miró, was
established in his birth city in 1975.
Earning international acclaim, his work
has been interpreted as surrealism, a
sandbox for the subconscious mind, a
re-creation of the childlike, and a
manifestation of Catalan pride.
8. Marc Chagall
• Chagall was inspired by the customs
of Belarus and played in many biblical
themes, reflecting his Jewish
heritage. became involved in large
projects for public spaces or
important civic buildings. Chagall's
work is connected with various
streams of modern art. He was part
of the Parisian avant-garde that
preceded World War. However, his
work always stays with in the limits of
these movements and emerging
trends, including Cubism and Fauvism.
9. Max Ernst
• He was a nationalized French German artist who was a
pivotal figure in Surrealism. Was characterized by the
use of an extraordinary variety of techniques, styles
and materials.
