The Annotated Mona Lisa: Pages 150 - 151 Flashcards

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Ernst: Mother of Madness

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  • Max Ernst (1891-1976)
  • Dadaist and Surrealist
  • experienced hallucinations when he saw fevered visions during a bout of childhood measles
  • invented “frottage”
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Dali: Painting Paranoia

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  • Salvador Dali (1904-89)
  • he represented his hallucinations with meticulous realism
  • he distorted objects grotesquely and placed them in unreal dream landscapes
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Magritte: Dream Visions

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  • Rene Magritte (1898-1967)

- he placed everyday objects incongruous settings and transformed them into electric shocks

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