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Surrealism is an artistic
cultural movement that portrays a
wide array of themes of
imagination, choices of colors, and
various art techniques. Surrealist
artists focus on displaying the
unconscious mind. This cultural
movement defies logic and is
inspired by dreams and the mind's
deepest thoughts.
BRIEF HISTORY OF SURREALISM
• SURREALISM ORIGINATED IN THE LATE
1910S AND EARLY ’20S AS A LITERARY
MOVEMENT THAT EXPERIMENTED WITH A
NEW MODE OF EXPRESSION CALLED
AUTOMATIC WRITING, OR AUTOMATISM,
WHICH SOUGHT TO RELEASE THE
UNBRIDLED IMAGINATION OF THE
SUBCONSCIOUS.
• THE VISUAL ARTISTS WHO FIRST WORKED WITH
SURREALIST TECHNIQUES AND IMAGERY WERE
THE GERMAN MAX ERNST (1891–1976), THE
FRENCHMAN ANDRÉ MASSON (1896–1987), THE
SPANIARD JOAN MIRÓ (1893–1983), AND THE
AMERICAN MAN RAY (1890–1976).
• MASSON’S FREE-ASSOCIATION DRAWINGS OF
1924 ARE CURVING, CONTINUOUS LINES OUT OF
WHICH EMERGE STRANGE AND SYMBOLIC
FIGURES THAT ARE PRODUCTS OF AN
UNINHIBITED MIND. 
• SURREALISM HAS OVER THE YEARS
BEEN PERCEIVED BY MANY
SURREALIST ARTISTS AND WRITERS
AS MORE THAN JUST AN ARTISTIC
STYLE BUT RATHER AN ARTISTIC
CULTURAL MOVEMENT. EVEN TODAY
SURREALISM CONTINUES TO BE ONE
OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL
CULTURAL MOVEMENTS.
THE ONE WHO DOMINATES IN SURREALISM ART
• ARTISTS INCLUDING ANGELO
ACCARDI CONTINUE TO
DOMINATE THE ART MARKET
AND STILL EMPLOY KEY
SURREALISTIC CONCEPTS
LIKE THE UNCANNY AND THE
UNCONSCIOUS, CREATING
WORKS THAT SHOW
AUTOMATISM AND PLAYING
AROUND WITH ONE’S
IMAGINATION. AN EXAMPLE
OF THIS IS THE FAMOUS AND
INTRIGUING ANGELO
ACCARDI’S MISPLACED ART
TWO TYPES OF
SURREALISM
•VERISTIC ART
•AUTOMATISM ART
VERISTIC ART
• HAVE YOU HEARD OF DALI? HIS
WORK FITS IN THE FIRST
CATEGORY, DREAM INSPIRED
ART OR VERISTIC SURREALISM.
SALVADOR DALI, WAS KNOWN
FOR HIS ECCENTRIC BEHAVIOR
AND UNCANNY ART WHICH
WOULD COMBINE ELEMENTS
THAT YOU NORMALLY WOULD
NOT SEE TOGETHER.
• VERISTIC SURREALISTS WERE DEEPLY
INTERESTED IN INTERPRETING DREAMS AS
CHANNELS FOR UNKNOWN FEELINGS AND DESIRES.
THEIR ARTWORKS DID NOT BEGIN WITH A
PRECONCEIVED RESULT. INSTEAD, DREAMS AND
SUBCONSCIOUS ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN IMAGES,
TEXT AND THEIR MEANINGS BECAME A DIRECT
SOURCE FOR THEIR ARTWORK. ARTISTS LIKE
SALVADOR DALI, MAX ERNST, RENE MAGRITTE,
DOROTHEA TANNING ALLOWED THE IMAGES OF THEIR
SUBCONSCIOUS TO BE UNDISTURBED SO THAT
MEANING COULD BE UNDERSTOOD THROUGH
ANALYSIS. THEY LINKED IMAGES BETWEEN THE
ABSTRACT SPIRITUAL REALITIES AND THE REAL
FORMS OF THE WORLD. FOR THEM, THEIR PAINTINGS
AUTOMATISM ART
• HAVE YOU FOUND YOURSELF DOODLING NONSENSE
WHILE SPEAKING ON THE PHONE? THAT ACT OF
MAKING ART WITHOUT THINKING IS CALLED
AUTOMATISM. IN PSYCHOLOGY, ‘AUTOMATISM’
REFERS TO INVOLUNTARY ACTIONS AND PROCESSES
THAT ARE NOT UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE
CONSCIOUS MIND–DREAMING, BREATHING, BLINKING.
AUTOMATISM PLAYED A VERY IMPORTANT ROLE FOR
SURREALIST TECHNIQUES. SPONTANEOUS (AUTOMATIC)
WRITING, PAINTING, AND DRAWING; FREE ASSOCIATION OF
IMAGES AND WORDS; AND COLLABORATIVE CREATION THOUGH
GAMES LIKE THE EXQUISITE CORPSE MEANT TO SUPPRESS THE
CONSCIOUS MIND TO LIBERATE THE SUBCONSCIOUS WITHOUT
MAIN FEATURE OF
SURREALISM ART
• SURREALISM AIMS TO REVOLUTIONISE
HUMAN EXPERIENCE. IT BALANCES A
RATIONAL VISION OF LIFE WITH ONE THAT
ASSERTS THE POWER OF THE
UNCONSCIOUS AND DREAMS. THE
MOVEMENT'S ARTISTS FIND MAGIC AND
STRANGE BEAUTY IN THE UNEXPECTED
AND THE UNCANNY, THE DISREGARDED
ENDLESS IMAGINATION

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BEAUTY OF CREATION

PERFECTION OF ART =
POINT OF SURREALISM IN
PHOTOGRAPHY & FILM
• AFFINITIES BETWEEN SURREALISM AND FILM HAVE BEEN NOTED SINCE THE
BEGINNING OF THE SURREALIST MOVEMENT IN THE 1920S. THE NASCENT
MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY AT THE DAWN OF THE 20TH CENTURY WAS BY
DEFINITION EXPERIMENTAL, A NEW MEDIA FORM THAT COMBINED AND
EXTENDED FEATURES OF SERIAL PUBLICATIONS, THEATER, PHOTOGRAPHY,
AND COLLAGE. THE OBJECTIVE AND TECHNICAL PROCESSES OF
FILMMAKING SHARED AFFINITIES WITH THE SURREALIST PROJECT OF
DISASSEMBLING REALITY INTO A MULTIPLICITY OF IMAGES, AND THEN
REASSEMBLING THOSE IMAGES TO ACHIEVE A MARVELOUS AND UNCANNY
“DREAM WORLD” THAT REDOUBLED REALITY AND CAPTURED THE
CONSCIOUSNESS OF MASS AUDIENCES.
Entr'acte - is a silent French Dada
short film directed by René Clair. It
premiered on 4 December 1924 at
the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in
Paris as a prologue and entr'acte for
the Ballets Suédois production of
Relâche, based on a book by Francis
Picabia, which had settings by
Picabia, was produced by Rolf de
Maré, and was choreographed by
Jean Börlin. The music for both the
ballet and the film was composed by
Erik Satie.
• THE SEASHELL AND THE CLERGYMAN (FRENCH: LA
COQUILLE ET LE CLERGYMAN) IS A 1928 FRENCH
EXPERIMENTAL FILM DIRECTED BY GERMAINE DULAC,
FROM AN ORIGINAL SCENARIO BY ANTONIN ARTAUD.
IT PREMIERED IN PARIS ON 9 FEBRUARY 1928.
FAMOUS ARTIST IN
SURREALISM
• RENÉ MAGRITTE, IN FULL RENÉ-FRANÇOIS-GHISLAIN MAGRITTE, (BORN NOVEMBER
21, 1898, LESSINES, BELGIUM—DIED AUGUST 15, 1967, BRUSSELS), BELGIAN ARTIST,
ONE OF THE MOST PROMINENT SURREALIST PAINTERS, WHOSE BIZARRE FLIGHTS OF
FANCY BLENDED HORROR, PERIL, COMEDY, AND MYSTERY.
•FRIDA KAHLO, IN FULL FRIDA KAHLO DE RIVERA, ORIGINAL NAME MAGDALENA
CARMEN FRIEDA KAHLO Y CALDERÓN, (BORN JULY 6, 1907, COYOACÁN, MEXICO—DIED
JULY 13, 1954, COYOACÁN), MEXICAN PAINTER BEST KNOWN FOR HER
UNCOMPROMISING AND BRILLIANTLY COLOURED SELF-PORTRAITS THAT DEAL WITH
SUCH THEMES AS IDENTITY, THE HUMAN BODY, AND DEATH.
•SALVADOR DALÍ, IN FULL SALVADOR FELIPE JACINTO DALÍ Y DOMENECH, (BORN MAY
11, 1904, FIGUERAS, SPAIN—DIED JANUARY 23, 1989, FIGUERAS), SPANISH SURREALIST
PAINTER AND PRINTMAKER, INFLUENTIAL FOR HIS EXPLORATIONS OF SUBCONSCIOUS
IMAGERY.
•LEONORA CARRINGTON, (BORN APRIL 6, 1917, CLAYTON GREEN, LANCASHIRE,
ENGLAND—DIED MAY 25, 2011, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO), ENGLISH-BORN MEXICAN
SURREALIST ARTIST AND WRITER KNOWN FOR HER HAUNTING, AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL,
SOMEWHAT INSCRUTABLE PAINTINGS THAT INCORPORATE IMAGES OF SORCERY,
METAMORPHOSIS, ALCHEMY, AND THE OCCULT.
•JOAN MIRÓ, (BORN APRIL 20, 1893, BARCELONA, SPAIN—DIED DECEMBER 25, 1983,
PALMA, MAJORCA), CATALAN PAINTER WHO COMBINED ABSTRACT ART WITH
SURREALIST FANTASY. HIS MATURE STYLE EVOLVED FROM THE TENSION BETWEEN HIS
FANCIFUL, POETIC IMPULSE AND HIS VISION OF THE HARSHNESS OF MODERN LIFE. HE
WORKED EXTENSIVELY IN LITHOGRAPHY AND PRODUCED NUMEROUS MURALS,
TAPESTRIES, AND SCULPTURES FOR PUBLIC SPACES.
“PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY” (1931) BY “SOFT CONSTRUCTION WITH BOILED
SALVADOR DALI BEANS” (1936) BY SALVADOR DALI
“THE FARM” (1922) BY JOAN MIRO “THE HARLEQUINS CARNIVAL”
(1925) BY JOAN MIRO