Reaction to chaos of WWI Influence of Freud: Dreams and subconscious Impossible scale/size/proportion Reversal of natural laws Double images Juxtapositionġ5 Where? France, Germany, Catalunya, Belgium Artists Max Ernst Salvador Dali Joan Miro Man Ray Rene Magritte Surrealist artists create paintings inspired by real images but they change different elements to create a new painting with the same or completely new meaning. In 1900, Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams, and introduced the wider public to the notion of the unconscious mind He said “Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.”ġ2 Andre Breton Poet “Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of the dream” ‘My wife with shoulders of champagne And of a fountain with dolphin-heads beneath the ice My wife with wrists of matches My wife with fingers of luck and ace of hearts’ġ3 Surreal Odd Illogical Irrational Exciting Instead of a better world, the advancements of the 19th century had produced such high tech weapons as machine guns, long-range artillery, tanks, submarines, fighter planes and mustard gas.” (source: Janson)ġ0 Staggering destruction and loss of lifeġ1 Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) The father of psychoanalysis They believed art could achieve the same effect as a dream.Ħ WHY Surrealism in 1924? What was happening in the world around this time? World War I ( ) Sigmund Freudħ Physically and psychologically, WWI destroyed Western civilizationĬountries Involved: Australia Austria Belgium Bulgaria Canada France Germany Great Britain Greece India Iraq Italy Japan Montenegro New Zealand Poland Portugal Rhodesia Romania Russia Serbia South Africa Turkey United StatesĨ “The logic, science and technology that many thought would bring a better world had gone horribly wrong. These images seem both real AND unreal (=sur-real).ĥ Surrealist artists believed that rather than depicting the world literally, they were interested in how the mind works. Surrealists juxtapose, or place side by side, unrelated objects. Poe was one of Magritte's favorite authors and he made other references to the author and his work.Ĥ Surrealism A movement in art and writing that is based on the strange things that happen in dreams. The book on the mantel is a well-worn copy of Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Presentation on theme: "The work depicts a man standing in front of a mirror, but whereas the book on the mantelpiece is reflected correctly, the man can see only the back of."- Presentation transcript:Ģ The work depicts a man standing in front of a mirror, but whereas the book on the mantelpiece is reflected correctly, the man can see only the back of his head.
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