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- Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale
- Ernst
- 1924
- Surrealism
- collage/assemblage art
- gate is open - unexpected scene
- all chaos is being cause by the small bird
- upsetting visual expectations
- Could symbolism (autobiographical explanations
- 1. Death of his sister
- 2. ill fevered hallucination
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- The Virgin Mary Chastising the Baby Jesus before Three Witnesses: André Breton, Paul Éluard and the Artist
- Max Ernst
- 1926
- Surrealism
- play on expectations
- stage set/ architecture in background are angular
- plot is neither sacred nor true to life
- idea of merriment - enjoy life and don't get bogged down by church/state but also don't be totally hedonistic
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- The Horde
- Ernst
- 1927
- Biomorphic surrealism
- grattage
- communicates a feeling - the less clear the better
- process of creation - adds layers and then scrapes them away to achieve the look he wants
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- The Treachery of Images
- Magritte
- 1933
- "This is not a pipe"
- Naturalistic Surrealism
- juxtaposes text and image
- GOAL: make viewer ask "What is representation?"
- confounds pictorial reality
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- Laughing Mannequins
- Bravo
- 1930
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- The Persistence of Memory
- Dali
- 1931
- "hand painted dream photographs"
- real Spanish landscape filled with melting clocks - watches serve no purpose other than making viewer think/question their purpose
- things looking recognizable but not really making sense
- unsettling - if it were abstract, it would be less disturbing
- trying to discredit reality and point out everyone has irrational thoughts/strange ideas
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- The Birth of Liquid Desires
- Dali
- 1931-32
- illusionistic landscape
- organic forms
- love of cabinets because they represent the mind - all the drawers to store things/thoughts
- saturation of color
- lots of detail by misleading because objects are vague/unclear
- deliberately enigmatic
- threatening rational order
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- The Human Condition
- Magritte
- 1933
- looks believable but something is a little off
- use of object to hide what lies behind it
- painting within a painting motif
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- Object
- Oppenheim
- 1936
- mass produced tea cup covered in Chinese gazelle fur
- manmade vs natural materials
- deliberately absurd - not useable
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- The Shooting Star
- Joan Miro
- 1938
- automatism
- allowed brush to move freely but consciously chose color
- "free association doodling"
- limitless space because it is not defined
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Andre Breton
- French founder of Surrealism
- wrote manifesto - wanted to free mankind from rationality, logic, and burdens of reality
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Surrealism
- gathered in France but an international group
- over realism, higher realism, beyond reality of everyday, discover next level of reality
- GOAL: shake us out of this plane of existence
- similar to Dada
- spontaneity and chance
- anything conventional was seen as repressive
- not directly linked to time/era but more of an ongoing effort (UNLIKE dada)
- revolution in the awareness of living
- shock viewer - upset normal patterns of living/seeing
- unconventional techniques and materials
- GOAL/CHALLENGE: access and represent subconscious
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Grattage
Grattage is a surrealist technique in painting in which (usually dry) paint is scraped off the canvas. It was employed by Max Ernst and Joan Miró
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Sigmund Freud (and the subconscious)
- human psyche = battleground
- ID: animal urges, hedonistic
- EGO: meeting ground
- SUPEREGO: rules from society/church/family/etc
- interested in the conscious and unconscious
- role of dreams - a way of connecting to subconscious
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Biomorphic (abstract) Surrealism
- access unconscious and see what happens
- It attempts to morph artistic design elements into naturally occurring shapes, or patterns reminisent of nature
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Automatism
- dictation of thought without control of the mind
- largely abstract though often contains recognizable images
- automatic drawing - allow your hand to move without any kind of rational logic; chance associations, changing context
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Paranoid-critical method
- "spontaneous method of irrational knowledge based on the critical and systematic objectivity of the associations and interpretations of delirious phenomena."
- a sane person could access/cultivate paranoid tendencies, illusional ideas and that things don't go together could go together
- mix of fantasy and reality
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Naturalistic Surrealism
- often uses meticulous detail
- recognizable forms/objects/scenes but take them out of regular context - combine, distort
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