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Surrealism

What is Surrealism?

A 20th-century literary and artistic movement that attempts to express the workings of the subconscious and is characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter.

2. Show 3 examples of Surrealist art (listing the artist’s name)

Young Chimera / Jeune chimère. 1921. Collage, gouache and Chinese ink on paper. 29 x 9 cm

Artist René Magritte, Year 1964, Type Oil on canvas, Dimensions 116 cm × 89 cm (45.67 in × 35 in)

Artist Salvador Dalí, Year 1931, Type Oil on canvas, Dimensions 24 cm × 33 cm (9.5 in × 13 in) 

3. Pick one Surrealist artist and briefly discuss their view on surrealism.

One surrealist artist I like is Rene Magritte. The reason I like Rene Magritte is because he had a very abstract definition of life. He always made paintings that show the truth of life and man. For example his painting, The Son of Man. It was a self portrait. It was what he thought of himself. About the painting Rene Magritte said:


At least it hides the face partly. Well, so you have the apparent face, the apple, hiding the visible but hidden, the face of the person. It's something that happens constantly. Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present.

4. Find two examples of Surrealism in modern day photography using Photoshop (or…perhaps not using Photoshop) (list the photographer and explain if you can, how it was done)

Noname, Created by litzer:

http://www.photoshopfiles.com/photoshop/abstract/surreal_artwork_427.html

Ther_cocoon , created by djedamrazuk

http://www.photoshopfiles.com/photoshop/abstract/ther_cocoon_58.html