1. Surrealism Salvador Dali Rene Magritte Mark Ryden

2. What is Surrealism?
Reuniting conscious and unconscious realms of experience so completely that the world of dream and fantasy would be joined to the everyday rational world in "an absolute reality, a surreality.”

3. More Surreal Techniques: 6) Metamorphosis: object transforming into another object. 7) Optical Illusions 8) Illogical Motif: Repetition of a unique or contradictory image/symbol. (Dali’s ants, clocks, crutches)

4. Salvador Dali
The most famous Surrealist Painter
In the late 1920s, two events brought about the development of his mature artistic style:
--His discovery of Sigmund Freud's writings on the significance of  subconscious imagery
and
--His affiliation with the Paris Surrealists, a group of artists and writers who sought to establish the "greater reality" of man's subconscious over his reason.

5. Persistence of Memory, 1931
Dream-like qualities
Fantasy
Distortion

6. Soft Watch at the Moment of First Explosion 1954
The Disintegration of
The Persistence of
Memory, 1954

7. Metamorphosis Of Narcissus, 1937
Dali depicted a dream world in which commonplace objects are juxtaposed, deformed,or otherwise metamorphosed in a bizarre and irrational fashion.

8. Invisible Sleeping Woman, 1930
The Burning Giraffe, 1937

9. Cignes Reflectant des Elephants, 1937

10. “Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.”
~ René Magritte
Extraordinary juxtaposition of ordinary objects or an unusual context that gives new meaning to familiar things

11. Gonconde

12. The Son of Man

14. The Red Model

15. La Therapeute

16. Mark Ryden