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 Introduction
 Origin
 Conscious
and subconscious
mind
 Surrealism
 Biographies of Surrealist Artists
 Image and text
 Architecture & surrealism
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Surrealism began as an art
movement in France in 1924,
its founder was writer and
poet andre breton, he was
not simply a writer , he was
also trained in medicine and
psychiatry, he used Sigmund
frauds psychoanalytic
methods this played a big
part in how breton founded
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While Andre Breton founded
the movement ...he did not
come up with the "surrealism“,
that was by Guillaume
Apollinaire who used the word
in 1917 in the prologue to his
play, "the breasts of Tiresias"
At the first time he actually thought
about the term of Surnaturalism,
however since the concern of
misunderstand to the psychological
word he changed the term to
surrealism
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Thus... before we can really understand "surrealism" first we need to
know a little about psychology, so to help us learn a little about that,
here is something with some information
- is what we used every day to think and to experience the
world
 -it is what we are aware of already given normal
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-It is dormant, we
don't directly feel it, it
also lot of information
but communicant only
in Seattle ways
 -ride a Bick= we do it
automatically without
really thinking about it
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Since the subconscious mind is a wellspring of knowledge ,
surrealists use images from their subconscious in their work as
Breton wrote
 In other words .... letting the subconscious speak for itself without
limiting it with rational thought
 It merges conscious reality with subconscious reality creating
“Surreality"
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Is an artistic movement that was
popularly from about 1920 to the
beginning of world war II, apply
psychoanalysis, free association in
automatic
technique of art to
review subconscious emotions and
facts
Aragon’s attempt to define
surrealist art in terms of collage
We can combined the origin of
surrealism from Dadaism, it was
develop at the period of world war
first and characteristics of which
destroy
-Early tradition
-Displine
BIOGRAPHIES
Some famous surrealists were
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1 max Ernst
2 Andre breton
3 Toan Miro
4 Salvader Dali
5 Marcel Duchamp
6 Meret oppenheim
7 Rene Magritte
André Breton (1896-1966)
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Breton, an avant-garde writer,
is considered the founder and
theorist of the Surrealist
movement. At first he worked
in
the
Dada
circles,
collaborating with Philippe
Soupault in automatic writing.
He
then
developed
the
theoretical basis of Surrealism
and wrote three manifestos in
1924, 1930, 1934. Breton
helped to found several
reviews: Littérature
(1919),
Minotaure (1933), and VVV
(1944). His Surrealist writings
include Nadja (1928), and What
Salvador
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Dali (1904-1989)
A Spanish painter and writer,
Dali is probably one of the
most well-known members of
the Surrealist movement. His
reputation as an eccentric
preceded him and his ego was
probably as big as the
fantastic images he created.
Dali was heavily influenced by
the writings of Sigmund
Freud. His paintings depict
dream imagery and everyday
objects in unexpected forms,
such as the famous limp
watches in The Persistence of
Memory
(1931).
Dali's
paintings are characterized by
meticulous draftsmanship with
realistic detail. Dali designed
and produced Surrealist films,
illustrated books, hand-crafted
jewelry, and created theatrical
sets and costumes.
Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory,
1931.
Oil on canvas, 9 1/2 x 13” Museum of Modern
Art, New York
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 Meret
Oppenheim (1913?-1985)
One of the few women in
the Surrealist movement,
the
Swiss
artist
Oppenheim used images
in a way that made no
logical sense. In her most
famous work Oppenheim
created Object (Breakfast
in Fur) (1936), which was
a fur-lined cup, saucer
and teaspoon. It created
a sensation because it
was a presentation of
two objects: the fur and
the cup with its saucer,
which are completely
unconnected.
7 naturalistic imagery
1 combined two or more different materials
with logically low connection in between to
transmit specific emotion
 2 mostly using oil colure as the painting
equipment
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3 use symbols as a method of telling story
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4 combined different things or different
elements within the same frame
5 dream like imagery
6 dark subject matter
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In surrealism there are some photograph and symbolic
natural objects or daily object, which are not seem to
relate with the art, but those be used as different from its
original usage that is what we call it object, object is
everywhere
Surrealists capture imagery from the subconscious mind
to create art without the intention of any sort of logical
competence
Texts and images are thus acknowledged as equally valid
manifestations of the activity of the unconscious mind.
but rather in terms of its ability to perform an equivalent
function to surrealist texts in bringing about an
imaginative transformation of reality
Surrealism and the Visual Arts a useful point of reference
Architecture &
surrealism
Architecture never became an integral part of surrealist thought in the same
way as painting, sculpture, and the creation of surrealist objects
Surrealists were not particularly interested in architecture and then only in a
very personal and rather indirect way , this comment echoed by Kenneth
framption
Gallery
Gallery
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Collage - From French meaning “to stick” and created by the
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Dada - A term chosen to describe the “non-art” movement.
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Psychoanalysis - A system of psychotherapy originated
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Surrealism - a movement founded by André Breton in
Cubists Picasso and Braque. Collage is the art of pasting
fragments of non-traditional materials like newspaper,
postcards, and chair canning into a composition. The Dada and
Surrealist artists placed irrational and incongruous objects
together.
The movement was developed in Zurich in 1916 amidst World
War I. It was an attack on the pretentious Western world that
had come to the worst example of humankind seen in the
atrocities of the War. Nonsense texts, performances and absurd
works of art produced the effect of anti-art.
and developed by Sigmund Freud which seeks to alleviate
mental and nervous disorders by the analysis of factors
repressed in the unconscious.
1924. The term is French for transcending the real. The
movement absorbed the nonsensical Dada movement and was
heavily based on the writings of Sigmund Freud. Surrealist
practices are meant to liberate the unconscious through various
Picon, G. Surrealists and Surrealis: 1919-1939.
New York, 1978
 Rubin, William S. Dada, Surrealism and Their
Heritage. New York, MOMA, 1968. E.C.
 Breton, André. Manifestoes of Surrealism. Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1969.
 Rubin, William S. Dada, Surrealism and Their
Heritage. New York, MOMA, 1968. E.C.
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=New Orleans Museum of Art’s
=Surrealist Art in NOMA’s Collection
Written by Diana Brahman, intern Tracy Kennan
=manifests of surrealism , written by andre breton