1. Surrealism
The conscious and unconscious come together in our DREAMS…..

2. Pre- Surrealist De Chirico - Metafisica
NOT a Surrealist, but influenced later Dadaists & Surrealists
Melancholy and Mystery of a Street
long setting sun, empty van, hoop?, ominous shadow,
-strangeness of familiar objects
there is a sense of impending evil that “underneath this reality in which we live and have our being, another and altogether different reality lies concealed.”
-Nietzche -
Figure GIORGIO DE CHIRICO, Melancholy and Mystery of a Street, Oil on canvas, 2’ 10 1/4” x 2’ 4 1/2”. Private collection.

3. Salvador Dali

4. Vast, empty landscape, visual ironies
Dali
influenced by Freud.
PROCESS -paranoiac critical method - dream world seems real b/c its painted perfectly.
Sought to “materialize the irrational with precision so that imagined world is as concrete as the real world….”
Persistence of Memory
Symbols:
Ants- decay
Rocks – eternity
Clocks - time
Meaning ?
Figure SALVADOR DALÍ, The Persistence of Memory, Oil on canvas, 9 1/2” x 1’ 1”.
Vast, empty landscape, visual ironies
Time is artificial, cannot withstand true power of the universe
….will the sun ever set?

5. Sleep 1937

6. Metamorphosis of Narcissus 1937

7. Subverting logic and common sense How do we read visual art? –
Magritte
Created illogical painting to shock and confuse viewers: like a bad dream …
Painted meticulously
Subverting logic and common sense
How do we read visual art? –
we can’t rely on the rational…
Treachery of Images
Figure RENÉ MAGRITTE, The Treachery (or Perfidy) of Images, 1928–1929. Oil on canvas, 1’ 11 5/8” x 3’ 1

8. Automatic writing

9. Figure 33-50 JOAN MIRÓ, Painting, 1933. 5’ 8” x 6’ 5”.
Klee
Process: Stare at an image, and let the brush lead him until image emerged….
STYLE: Ambiguous, focus on simple lines, childlike, more based on real life than Miro.
, Painting
Miro - Master Automatist= CHANCE
Process: two stages: 1.free(unconscious); 2.controlled(conscious) planned accidents
Started with scattered cutouts and then painted the silhouettes – society “lets go”
STYLE: neg/pos space interplay, dark, obvious focal points, shapes, lines, 2D
Figure JOAN MIRÓ, Painting, ’ 8” x 6’ 5”.
Figure PAUL KLEE, Watercolor and pen and ink, on oil transfer drawing on paper, mounted on cardboard, 2’ 1” x 1’ 7”.
, Twittering Machine

10. Miro

11. Miro

12. Frida Kahlo Two Fridas Did NOT consider herself a Surrealist
What is being represented?
Spanish “lady” vs. Mexican peasant
(political undertones)
“Euro dress”=Imperial forces in Spain
Indigenous dress
Heart = Aztec symbol that Mexican Nationalists idealized (as the last great rulers)
Diego as baby, surgical tool…..?
Figure FRIDA KAHLO, The Two Fridas, Oil on canvas, 5’ 7” x 5’ 7”.

14. Frida and Diego

15. (Le Déjeuner en fourrure),
OPPENHEIM, Object
(Le Déjeuner en fourrure),
Combination of unlike objects
Alchemy…
Figure MERET OPPENHEIM, Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure), Fur-covered cup, 4 3/8” in diameter; saucer, 9 3/8” in diameter; spoon, 8”. Museum of Modern Art, New York (purchase).

16. GIACOMETTI, Man Pointing, 1947
Alienated, solitary, lost in the world’s immensity
Expressive and Formalistic
Figure ALBERTO GIACOMETTI, Man Pointing, Bronze no. 5 of 6, 5’ 10” x 3’ 1’ 5 5/8”. Nathan Emory Coffin Collection of the Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines. (Purchased with funds from the Coffin Fine Arts Trust.)

17. Which of the following is a practice of Jean Arp?
Relying on the element of chance
Performance art
Changing the meaning of readymade objects
Depicting dreams through art
2. Which of the following is a practice of Duchamp?

18. 3. Which of the following artists promoted automatism (the creation of art without conscious control)?
Dali
Magritte
Miro
Oppenheim