SURREALISM (jul 15, 1925 – mar 15, 1940)

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1925 - 1940

- movement originated in Paris
- embraced the dream and unconscious
- 2 types of drawings: automatic and dream
- unusual imagery
- instead of rejecting society ,surrealism aimed to improve it
- optimistic, about hope and creation


MASSON 1925
- mentally scarred by the experiences of WWI
- automatic drawing
- no preconceived aims (no planning/sketches)
- let his mind wander while drawing

BRETON 1929
- worked with soldiers with shell shock
- automatic writing: writing poems without going back or editing

DALI 1930
- dream paintings (unusual and imaginative imagery)
- objectifying dream words by using commonly known objects in disturbing ways
- surrealist films with absurd content and environments

MARGRITTE 1930
- "seeing comes before words"
- irony (painting that completes the landscape but also blocks it)
- fascinated by the relationship between language and art
- undermines our tendency to speak of images as the actual object

OPPENHEIM 1936
- juxtaposition sculptures

ERNST

Frottage 1925
- rubbing to apply texture
- reorganized these textures into new contexts

Paintings 1940
- decalcomania: to transfer
- placing paper on wet paper and moving it away to achieve different textural effects


Collage 1934
- dreamlike images
- collected photos from science magazines, novels, and other publications
- the meeting of 2 images from different sources

THE INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION OF SURREALISM
- featured sculptures by Duchamp, Dali, Masson

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