1. Surrealism

2. Surrealism
artistic and literary movement that explored and celebrated the realm of dreams and the unconscious mind through the creation of visual art, poetry, and motion pictures.

3. Surrealism
Officially launched in Paris, France, in 1924, when French writer André Breton wrote the first surrealist manifesto, outlining the ambitions of the new movement.

4. Surrealism
The movement soon spread to other parts of Europe and to North and South America.

5. Among surrealism’s most important contributions was the invention of new artistic techniques that tapped into the artist’s unconscious mind.

6. Influenced by the theories of the pioneer of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud (German, ), the images found in surrealist works are as confusing and startling as those of dreams.

7. Surrealist works can have a realistic, though irrational style, precisely describing dreamlike fantasies.

8. The Uncertainty of the Poet ( 1913) by the Greco-Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico is filled with dreamlike imagery.

9. One of the images, that of a train in the distance, is probably a memory from the artist’s youth, when his father was a railroad engineer.

10. Although de Chirico began as a metaphysical artist, he is most often mentioned in the context of surrealism.

11. Salvador Dali ( )
Spanish Surrealist painter and printmaker, influential for his explorations of subconscious imagery.

12. Salvador Dali ( )
He depicted a dream world in which commonplace objects are juxtaposed, deformed, or otherwise metamorphosed in a bizarre and irrational fashion.

13. Ranks as one of the most famous paintings of the 20th century.
Salvador Dali
Ranks as one of the most famous paintings of the 20th century.
The Fourth Dimension

14. The Persistence of Memory
Salvador Dali
Dalí referred to his work as “hand-painted dream photographs” his imagery often came directly from his own dreams.
The Persistence of Memory

15. Salvador Dali

16. Self-Portrait Splitting into Three 1927
Salvador Dali

17. Head of a Woman 1927
Salvador Dali

18. Salvador Dali
Barcelonese Mannequin

19. Still Life by the Light of the Moon 1927
Salvador Dali

20. Apparatus and Hand 1927
Salvador Dali

21. Little Cinders (Cenicitas) 1927-1928
Salvador Dali

22. Nude Woman Seated in an Armchair c. 1927
Salvador Dali

23. Venus and a Sailor (2) 1925
Salvador Dali
Venus and a Sailor 1925

24. Still Life - Watermelon 1924
Salvador Dali

25. Salvador Dali

26. The Picnic 1921
Salvador Dali

27. The Sardana of the Witches 1920
Salvador Dali
The Sardana of the Witches 1920

28. Salvador Dali
Voyeur 1921

29. Cabaret Scene 1922
Salvador Dali

30. Madrid, Architecture and Poplars 1922
Untitled - Landscape Near Madrid
Salvador Dali

31. Salvador Dali
Cadaques 1923

32. Portrait of a Seated Person Holding a Letter 1923
Purist Still Life 1923
Salvador Dali

33. Armenian-born American artist Arshile Gorky was strongly influenced by the surrealist movement, especially in his use of biomorphic, ambiguous forms.
Flowery Mill

34. His works influenced the development of later American art such as abstract expressionism.

35. Joan Miró ( )
His mature style evolved from the tension between his fanciful, poetic impulse and his vision of the harshness of modern life

36. Miró combined abstract shapes with partly Surrrealist fantasy.
The Garden

37. In 1928 he traveled to the Netherlands and produced several works inspired by paintings of the Dutch masters, including Dutch Interior I (1928, Museum of Modern Art).
Dutch Interior I

38. This brightly colored painting contains several elements typical of a 17th-century Dutch genre painting: a man playing a lute, a dog chewing on a bone, and a landscape painting on the wall.
Dutch Interior I

39. Vuelo de pajaros
Le soleil rouge
Joan Miro

40. The Age of Enlightenment
René Magritte
Surrealist painter whose bizarre flights of fancy blended horror, peril, comedy, and mystery.
The Age of Enlightenment
oil on canvas

41. René Magritte
The Annunciation, 1930
oil on canvas, x cm

42. The Rape, 1934, oil on canvas, 28 1/2 x 21 inches, collection George Melly, London
René Magritte

43. Pavel Tchelitchew
Sarane Alexandrian

44. Paul-Emile Borduas (1905-1960)
The Climb
Nature's Parachutes
Paul-Emile Borduas ( )

45. Sub-types of Surrealism
Dream art is any form of art directly based on material from dreams, or which employs dream-like imagery.

47. Sub-types of Surrealism
Visionary art is art that purports to transcend the physical world and portray a wider vision of awareness including spiritual or mystical themes, or is based in such experiences.

50. Sub-types of Surrealism
Neosurrealism or Neo-Surrealism is an artistic genre that illustrates the complex imagery of dream or subconscious visions and irrational space and form combinations.

52. Sub-types of Surrealism
Magic realism (or magical realism) is an artistic genre in which magical elements appear in an otherwise realistic setting. As used today the term is broadly descriptive rather than critically rigorous.

54. Sub-types of Surrealism
Psychedelic art is art inspired by the psychedelic experience induced by drugs such as LSD, Mescaline, and Psilocybin. The word "psychedelic" (coined by British psychologist Humphrey Osmond) means "mind manifesting"