SURREALISM

Question 1

Surrealists

Answer 1

Salvador Dalí
Rene Magritte
Max Ernst

Question 2

surrealism defies logic. dreams and the workings of the subconscious mind inspire surrealistic art ( french for “super-realism”) filled with strange images and bizarre juxtapositions.

Answer 2

SURREALISM

Question 3

sigmund freud legitimized the importance of dreams and the unconscious as valid revelations of human emotion and desires.

Answer 3

Surrealism, 1924

Question 4

WHO FIRST USED THE WORD SURREALISM?

Answer 4

the word surrealist (suggesting beyond reality) was coined by the french avantgarde poet Guillaume Apollinaire in a play written in 1903 and performed in 1917.

Question 5

pure psychic automatism, by which one proposes to express, either verbally, in writing, or by any other manner the real functioning of thought.

Answer 5

Andre Breton

Question 6

Characters of Surrealism

Answer 6

• reaction to chaos of WWI
• interest in the subconscious
• distortions of reality
• reversal of natural laws
• double images
• juxtaposition

Question 7

Salvador Dali. Place

Answer 7

FIGUERES, SPAIN

Question 8

1925

Answer 8

to this he added what he called his paranoiac-critical method.

dali was really interested in, in the late 1920s and early 1930s and beyond.

looking at one thing and seeing another as this figure makeup a face.

salvador dali’s paranoiac-critical method was his most original contribution to modern art:

it is using one image and exploring two different meanings within it and seeing something beyond that first image that you might see.

Question 10

is a visualization of the theory of relativity. this work is 10x14 dali dynamite work, exploding with ideas about time, dreams, and almost intimate fantasies and fears.

Answer 10

The Persistence of Memory: An interpretation

Question 11

psychic snapshot of where the 25 year old dali. bizarre kind of self portrait of the artist, becoming one of the most obsessive

Answer 11

The Great Masturbator