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Bharati Asmita Booklet on SURREALISM

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SURREALISM

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4-5 WHAT? 6-7 What is surrealism? WHO? Who are surrealist? WHEN? WHERE? Timeline: History 8-9 HOW? Illustrations

What is Surrealism? unconscious mind contains the thoughts we are not aware of. The deep hidden part of ourselves that drives our fears, desires and strange ideas. conscious mind contains the thoughts we are aware of. But it only makes up a small part of our brain. André Breton defined Surrealism as “psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express - verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner - the actual functioning of thought.” One of the main goals was to shock and surprise. Surrealist: A group of people who focused on the world of dreams in order to create a new reality, a reality that was beyond real, or surreal. They used art and philosophy to over- throw an established way of thinking and revolutionize how we express ourselves. The unconsious mind communicates through symbols in our dreams so the Surrealist focused on the dream 4 world.

Surrealism was a movement A group of people who focused on the world of dreams in order to create a new reality, a reality that was beyond real, or surreal. The surrealist rejected soci- eties demands for everything to make sense instead em- bracing the things that does not make sense. They said its okay to be scared, its okay to be shocked. Surrealism used a lot of the same artistic elements. Look for the dreamlike effect thats often seen is surrealist art and writing elements like dislocation, juxtaposition and transformation. Surrealism embraces UNCONSIOUS + IRRATIONAL. One of the main goals was to shock and surprise It doesn’t need to be 5 pretty, it doesn’t have to make sense and it can shock and disgust people and still be art so long as it comes from the unconscious mind, unbelievable visions that audiences couldnt look away .

1941-1945 1941 SURRE 1938 time World War II ended 1938 The Treachery of Some art experts consider that it disbanded after the Images is a 1929 war; others cite the death of André Breton in 1966 1931 painting by surre- (or that of Salvador Dali in 1989) as marking the alist painter René end of Surrealism as an organized movement Andre Breton writes Magritte. the second manifesto 1938 of surrealism. The International Exhibition of Surrealism is held in Paris. The group exhibition showed works of Giorgio de Chirico, Hans Arp, Max Ernst, Paul Klee, Man Ray, André Masson, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso and Pierre Roy. 1938-1939 The new International Surrealist. As the World War II started, Breton insisted art to be created for revolution, not profit. so a new group of surrealist was formed. 1931 The Persistence of Memory. Hard objects become inexplicably limp in this bleak and infinite dreamscape.To systematize confusion and thus to help discredit complete- ly the world of reality. Surrealism soon spread to all types of media, not just paintings, there were drawings, sculptures, film, collage and dali was one of the only surrealist who creat- ed nearly every single one of them. Dali used surrealism to express his deepest thoughts and struggles instead of hiding his 6 fears and bearing his issues.

ALISM 1914 eline Paris in early 1900s, it was stuffy, prop- 1914 er, full of rational well mannered people buying mild decorative art and living life on their best behaviour, and then World War I changed everything. 1917 Guillaume Apollinarie used ‘surrealism’ in 1917 to describe Jean Cocteau’s ballet parade and his own play ‘The Brest of Tireseas’. for Apollinaire , surrealism. 1917 1918 1918 World War I ended War made people question their own society and start to look for a different way to live. They wanted something irrational, out of the society. 1920 1920 Breton and his friends figured that if traditional approach to life has ended in war maybe it was time to try something new. They formed an aggressive group called DADA. They were looking for revolution but didn’t find in dada. 1924 ANDRE BRETON a writer publishes the First manifesto of surrealism where he de- fined the word and officially established the group and their goal. They were really into You believe that when people ignore or suppress their irrational AUTOMATISM, a pro- thoughts, they become imbalanced and that leads to an imbalance so- cess where they wrote ciety which leads to horrible things like war. To create more balance or drew everything that Breton wanted to access the unconscious mind and set the irrational came into minds, no thoughts free. He and a bunch of other radical writers got together to do matter what it was. just that, they called themselves SURREALISTS. 7

Illustrations “The Philosopher’s Lamp (La Lampe Recreation of the art philosophique)” is one of the popular paintings The Philosopher’s Lamp. by the surrealist Rene Magritte in 1935 which is .The representation of knowledge(the mobile phone) and the philosophical thought focused an ironic representation of the knowledge (the on itself(eating a banana by a reversed spoon) candle coil) and the philosophical thought focused on itself (a nose/head that smokes itself ). The Broken Column, is a 1944 painting by Frida Kahlo. This art work was painted just after kahlo had undergone a spinal operation. There a completely fractured Ionic column on the point of collapse has replaced her spinal column. . Although her face is bathed in tears, it doesn’t reflect a sign of pain. The nails piercing her body are a symbol of the constant pain she faced. The attitude she presents is the one she always showed to life itself: strong and defiant to the viewer. I read it as... we see that kahlo is confronting her pain to us. there is a valley of missing flesh on her body that exposes an architectural marble column in place of her spine. the nails tells us about all the traumatizing incidents from her life and how it affected her physically and emotionally. The landscape communicates how her body felt 8 all sliced up during the surgeries and barren due to her inability to carry children.

Object (Luncheon in Fur) I find the this art very dis- by Meret Oppenheim comforting. The contrast of objects and their previous Paris, 1936 associations which create disturbance. Looking at A work as small and material separately the economical as Object has tableware symbolizes such outsized spirit be- domesticity and wilderness cause fur combined with and unconscious fetish for a teacup evokes such a the exotic of the fur. surprising mix of mes- sages and associations. Film Un Chien Andalou Un Chien Andalou has a directed by Luis Bunuel deep insight to the human and co- written by nature, mind and activ- Salvador Dali in 1929. ities as well as the social Dalí and Buñuel wanted system. it to be as mysterious and What we really think illogical as a dream, in- about these inner thought deed the script emerged and social system. during a conversation each had about the oth- er’s dreams. The Son of Man, is a 1964 painting by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. Magritte said: Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present. I read it as... The man’s face is largely obscured by a hover- ing green apple.In many ways our minds has to decide what this person’s face looks like out of necessity. We can’t accept the reality of the unknown especially in such tantalizing circum- stances where we can almost see the face. But this Apple is so unconveniently placed right where we want to see. and of course our mind 9 has to fill in that bakground for us.

SURREALISM THE DREAM WORLD