Saturday, November 6, 2010

Surrealism Notes

(Max Ernst, Rene Magritte, Salvador Pali, Man Ray, Jean Arp)

-post WWI
-less political(??)
-acces to the cubconcious mind
-new psychological theories of Sigmund Freud, "the interpratation of dreams" 1899

Techniques->Automatism

surrealism: take expectations and SNAP THEM
trying to shock you out of the ordinary

-middle class artist - rebeling against it.
they didnt want to be cogs in the machine-against social order

-fantasy is not new. Surrealist, however would do their own as oppose to shared

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