Surrealism was an art movement that explored the subconscious mind. Artists aimed to capture unconscious thoughts and dreams in their works through techniques like automatic drawing. Major surrealist artists included Max Ernst, Joan Miro, Salvador Dali, and Rene Magritte. They were influenced by Freudian psychoanalytic theory and sought to challenge rational thought by bringing unconscious imagery to the surface. Common surrealist techniques involved using everyday objects in unexpected contexts or in a dreamlike, illogical manner.

1. Surrealism
Lauren Callegari
Marah Maaita

2. What is Surrealism?
• An art movement where an artists goes into
their subconscious to inspire their work.
• The artists wanted to expose the inner world
of sexuality, desire, and violence

3. How do you know if it is surreal?
• Out of place objects (juxtaposition)
• Unreal scenes
• Normal subjects acting abnormal
• Fantasy creatures
Time Transfixed by: The Listening Room by: Not To Be Reproduced
Magritte Magritte by: Magritte The Elephant Celebes by: Ernst

4. Freud-Influencer (1856-1939)
• Developed
psychological theories
on free association,
dream analysis, and the
unconscious mind.
• He helped artists to be
able to go into their
unconscious mind.

5. Breton-Founder (1896-1966)
• Studied Freud's
theories and applied
it to his art.
• Started the
surrealism
movement in 1924.

6. Dadaism Influence
• Started after World War I
• “Anti- art” or “nonart”
• Went against traditional art
• Violent, had an attitude
against war, protest, and
disgust of life
• Later it got to
nonconformity, became
dead
L.H.O.O.Q. by Marcel Duchamp, he
added a mustache and goatee to
The root of surrealism, but
the Mona Lisa to shift from the surrealism is less violent
traditional art works

7. Types
• Automatists: focused more on feelings and
less on analyzing. Felt that the pictures should
not be burdened with “meaning”.
• Veristics: allow images of the subconscious to
emerge so they could be understood.

8. Technique
• Frottage: put paper on a surface and rub over
it to get the texture
• Grattage: scratching textures into painted
surfaces.
• Decalcomania: wet paint is pressed onto a
painting and then removed.

10. Max Ernst (1891-1976)
• Invented frottage
• His work focuses on
dream imagery,
eroticism, symbolism,
and politics.
• Used illusion and
abstract

11. The Elephant Celebes

12. The Teetering Woman

14. The Angel of Hearth And Home

15. Joan Miro (1893-1983)
• His work was borderline
abstract
• Childlike quality to his
work
• Credited as the founder
of automatism

16. Carnival of Harlequin

17. The Tilled Field

18. Catalan Landscape (The Hunter)

19. Still Life with Old Shoe

20. Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
• Used hallucinatory
characters
• Some of his work
included sexual figures
• Colorful personality

21. The Matador

22. The Persistence Of Memory

23. Apparition Of A Face And A Fruit Dish On
A Beach

24. Sleep

25. Rene Magritte (1898-1967)
• Uses everyday images
• It is suspected that he
hides the faces in his
work because his mom
was found dead with
her dress covering her
face.

26. The Treachery of Images

27. Not To Be Reproduced

28. The Lovers

29. The Son of Man

30. Citations
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Transfixed
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Listening_Room
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_to_be_Reproduced
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elephant_Celebes
• http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2011/10/13/closing-the-gap-max-ernst-through-the-lens-of-the-lower-east-side/
• http://karskaya.com/?page_id=12&language=fr
• http://classes.yale.edu/fractals/panorama/art/decalcomania/decalcomania.html
• http://joshuaabelow.blogspot.com/2011/09/equivocal-woman-teetering-woman-1923.html
• http://www.actingoutpolitics.com/ernst-monument-to-birds/
• http://thebrainpolice.blogspot.com/2010_07_01_archive.html
• http://www.students.sbc.edu/evans06/presentation.htm
• http://joanmiro.com/
• http://www.fun-learning-spanish.com/miro.html
• http://clockwisecat.blogspot.com/2011/12/still-life-with-old-shoe.html
• http://madamepickwickartblog.com/2010/06/the-bull-lies-down-on-broadway/
• http://realitybitesartblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/bite-45-salvador-dali-persistence-of_25.html
• http://arthistory.about.com/od/from_exhibitions/ig/dali_retrospective/dali_pma_05_09.htm
• http://www.fantom-xp.com/wp_12__Sleep_-_Le_Sommeil_Salvador_Dali.html
• http://www.mattesonart.com/magritte-and-poe-strange-brew.aspx
• http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/rene-magritte/the-lovers-1928
• http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/rene-magritte/son-of-man-1964