Context What is it How Began What did they do Key Figures and Work Modern Examples Legacy/Why listen to me
Context
What is it
SURREALISM, noun, masc. Pure psychic automatism by which it is intended to express, either verbally or in writing, the true function of thought. Thought dictated in the absence of all control exerted by reason, and outside all aesthetic or moral preoccupations. Manifeste du surrĂŠalisme
Surrealist Manifesto
How Began
AndrĂŠ Breton
AndrĂŠ Breton
Littérature, advertisement, 23 January, 1920.
Littérature, cover, vol.2 no.1, 1 March 1922.
Littérature, cover, vol.2 no.5, 1 October 1922.
El Corno Emplumado, no.27, 1968, cover by Robert David Cohen.
Minotaure, vol.1 no.1, 1933, cover by Pablo Picasso. Edited by Albert Skira and E TĂŠriade.
Minotaure, no.7, 1935, cover by Joan Miro.
Minotaure, vol.1 no.2, 1933 Gaston-Louis Roux
Minotaure, vol.1 no.3-4, 1933 Man Ray
Minotaure, vol.3 no.11, 1938 Max Ernst
Minotaure, vol.3 no.12-13, 1936 Diego Rivera
Minotaure, vol.3 no.8, 1936 Salvador DalĂ
El Corno Emplumado, no.27, July 1968, cover by Robert David Cohen.
Isamu Noguchi, View, vol.7 no.1, cover, 1946
Phases, cover vol.2 no.1, 1969.
Edda, cover of no.5, 1964.
Gebrauchsgraphik, cover
What is it exactly
What did they do
Key Figures and Work
Ray, Arp, Tanguy, Breton, Tzara, DalĂ, Ernst, Elaurd, Crevel
Giorgio de Chirico, Piazza d’Italia (Autumn Melancholy), 1919
“Untitled (Forest)”, 1916-1917, Jean Arp
Cenicitas, 1927-1928 by Salvador DalĂ
The Persistence of Memory, 1931 by Salvador DalĂ
Joan Miro
Max Ernst, circa 1930
Rene Magritte translated
RenĂŠ Magritte and similar
RenĂŠ Magritte and similar
Man Ray, circa 1930
Frida Khalo
Yves Tanguy, Indefinite Divisibility, 1942
Modern Examples
Modern Examples * Not claiming surrealists
Paul Rand, 1955
Nate Williams
Salvador Dali style
Rene Magritte style
Man Ray style
Edward Fella
Brian Schorn
Alvin Lustig
Elliott Earls
Elliot Earls
Stefan Sagmeister
Benbo George
Able Parris
Rose Matthew
Jonathon Rosen
Alexis Mackenzie
Important Artists Include Classical: Tristan Tzara Hieronymus Bosch Alexander Calder Andre Breton Man Ray Giorgio De Chirico Giacomo Balla Jean Arp Francis Picabia Max Ernst Yves Tanguy Marcel Duchamp Paul Klee Roberto Matta Joan Mir贸 Salvador Dali Rene Magritte Georges Braque Andre Masson Isamu Noguchi Carlo Mollino Pablo Picasso Meret Oppenheim
Modern: Hedda Sterne Jan Svankmayer The Brothers Quay Brian Schorn Ed Fella Geoff Mcfetridge Stefan Stagmeister Grete Stern Ellen Auerbach Leon Kelly Luisa Lombardelli Alexis Anne Mackenzie Paul Rand Alvin Lustig Able Parris Elliott Earls Jan Svankmajer
Legacy/Why listen to me
“Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe that it acts on the mind very much as drugs do; like drugs, it creates a certain state of need and can push man to frightful revolts.” “Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”
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