Surrealism

Question 1

Answer 1

Alexander Calder • Lobster Trap and Fish Tail (1939)

Question 2

Answer 2

Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937

Question 3

Answer 3

Joan Miró • Composition (1933)

Question 4

Answer 4

Meret Oppenheim • Object (Luncheon in Fur) (1936)

Question 5

André Breton

Question 6

Unconscious

Answer 6

all the processes of the mind which are not available to consciousness.

Question 7

Automatism

Answer 7

technique first used by Surrealist painters and poets to express the creative force of the unconscious in art.

Question 8

Biomorphic Abstraction

Answer 8

an art movement that began in the 20th century. It patterns artistic design elements on naturally occurring patterns or shapes reminiscent of nature. Taken to its extreme it attempts to force naturally occurring shapes onto functional devices, often with mixed results.

Question 9

Free Association

Answer 9

spontaneous, logically unconstrained and undirected association of ideas, emotions, and feelings.