1. SURREALISM

2. Surrealism is a 20th-century literary and artistic movement
that attempted to express the workings of the subconscious by using fantastic imagery and
the incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter.

3. Surrealism is a term that refers to a heightened sense of reality; translated from French, the term means: “over-realism”-- a vision of reality that supercedes the mundane!

4. (pronounced: rna mägrt, 1898-1967)
RENE MAGRITTE
(pronounced: rna mägrt, )
"My painting is visible images which conceal nothing; they evoke mystery and, indeed, when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.” René Magritte

5. Rene Magritte was a Belgian surrealist painter.
He painted in a realistic style. While the objects appear to the viewer to be recognizable, the composition of those recognizable objects appears fantastic.

6. His paintings are expressive for their juxtaposition of common objects, often altered in scale, and placed in absurd settings. Magritte is deeply interested in the process of thought, and his paintings
tend to raise the awareness of the viewer to their own thought processes.

7. More often than not, Magritte chose ordinary things from which to construct his works - trees, chairs, tables, doors, windows, shoes, shelves, landscapes, people. He wanted to be understood via these ordinary things, but he also wanted to shock and surprise his viewers.

8. Erik Alos
Erik Alos is a childhood friend of mine who began his career tagging and causing mayhem on the streets of downtown San Diego. He says one of his influences is Salvador Dali and that his drawings are a part of who he is. He couldn’t be authentic without them.

9. Erik Alos

11. Surrealistic Techniques - “How to make the ordinary look extraordinary”
Scale
Levitation
Juxtaposition
Dislocation
Transparency
Transformation

12. Changing an object’s scale, or relative size.

13. SCALE

14. Personal Values
SCALE

15. Floating objects that don’t normally float
LEVITATION
Floating objects that don’t normally float

16. LEVITATION

17. Golconde
LEVITATION

18. Joining two images together in impossible combinations
JUXTAPOSITION
Joining two images together in impossible combinations

19. JUXTAPOSITION

20. JUXTAPOSITION

21. DISLOCATION
Taking an object form its usual environment and placing it in an unfamiliar one

22. DISLOCATION

23. DISLOCATION

24. Making objects transparent that are not usually transparent
TRANSPARENCY
Making objects transparent that are not usually transparent

25. TRANSPARENCY

26. TRANSPARENCY

27. Changing objects in unusual way
TRANSFORMATION
Changing objects in unusual way

28. TRANSFORMATION

29. TRANSFORMATION