Surrealism Salvador Dali Rene Magritte Mark Ryden What

Surrealism Salvador Dali Rene Magritte Mark Ryden

What is Surrealism? Reuniting conscious and unconscious realms of experience so completely that the world of dream and fantasy would be joined to the everyday rational world in "an absolute reality, a surreality. ”

More Surreal Techniques: 6) Metamorphosis: object transforming into another object. 7) Optical Illusions 8) Illogical Motif: Repetition of a unique or contradictory image/symbol. (Dali’s ants, clocks, crutches)

Salvador Dali • The most famous Surrealist Painter • In the late 1920 s, two events brought about the development of his mature artistic style: --His discovery of Sigmund Freud's writings on the significance of subconscious imagery and --His affiliation with the Paris Surrealists, a group of artists and writers who sought to establish the "greater reality" of man's subconscious over his reason.

Persistence of Memory, 1931 • Dreamlike qualities • Fantasy • Distortion

Soft Watch at the Moment of First Explosion 1954 The Disintegration of The Persistence of Memory, 1954

Metamorphosis Of Narcissus, 1937 Dali depicted a dream world in which commonplace objects are juxtaposed, deformed, or otherwise metamorphosed in a bizarre and irrational fashion.

Invisible Sleeping Woman, 1930 The Burning Giraffe, 1937

Cignes Reflectant des Elephants, 1937

• “Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. ” ~ René Magritte • Extraordinary juxtaposition of ordinary objects or an unusual context that gives new meaning to familiar things

Gonconde

The Son of Man

The Red Model

La Therapeute

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