Surrealism
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- Surreal
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"Beyond reality"
Describes imagery that is dream-like, eerie, bizarre, disoriented, fantasy, mysterious. - Surrealists
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Love: randomness
Irrationality
Absurdity
Experimenting - Main Influences
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New Science of Psychology
The research into the inner-workings of the human brian
Sigmund Freud's theories and his practice of psychoanalysis
Dream Interpretation
Horrors of WW I and II and the upheaval and disorientation that accompanied these wars - Time Period
- Late 1920's to Early 1950's
- Frottage
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To Rub
The technique in which you rub over various surfaces to make impressions of rich textures and use these to create imaginary scenes, creatures or figures. - "Automatic" drawing/writing
- performed without conscious intention
- Rorschach Ink Blot
- how it is made, what it was used for (psychoanalysis)
- "Exquisite Corpse"
- a "parlor game" mystery collaboration
- Decalomania
- technique- painting freely on paper and printing this image onto glassy surface. Used to create surprising, imaginative pictures.
- Change of Scale
- Strange and irregular sizes of objects
- Defying laws of physics
- impossible physical feats (trains levitating; flying telephones; floating apples; etc...)
- Juxtapositions
- things placed together in a picture that seem like odd combinations; or that create an impossible scenerio.
- Transformation
- objects and people that mysteriously change (people become rocks; birds made of wood)
- Burning Giraffe
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Salvador Dali
1930 - Time Transfixed
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Rene Magrieet
1939 - The Heart String
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Rene Magrieet
1960 - The Human Condition
- 1933
- Two Ambiguous Figures
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Max Ernst
1920 - The Palace at Four A.M.
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Alberto Giacometti
1932 - The Persistence of Memory
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Salvador Dali
1933 - The Inigma of Hitler
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Salvador Dali
1941 - Sleep
- Dali
- de Chirico
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buildings in the way
towers
flags/boxes - R.E.M. Sleep
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Rapid Eye Movement
When most vivid episodes of dreaming occur by waking sleepers during REM periods.
Enables us to work more accurately with the images, symbols and other physic events