Surrealism

Cards (14)

  • Sigmund Freud's book?
    The Interpretation of dreams.
  • What is Freud's book about?
    He legitimized the importance of dreams and unconscious as valid revelations of human emotion and desires.
  • Surrealism qualities?
    1. Dreamlike
    2. Imagined reality
  • Surrealism Artists?
    1. Salvador Dali
    2. Rene Magritte
    3. Paul Delvaux
  • Who wrote surrealist manifesto?
    Andre Breton
  • What is Salvador's paranoiac-critical method?
    A process to systematize confusion and thereby contribute to a total discrediting of the world of reality
  • list some of Salvador Dali's art pieces?
    1. The Persistence of Memory
    2. Galatea of the Spheres
    3. Swans Reflecting Elephants
  • The Persistence of Memory theory?
    The soft melting pocket watches resemble Dali's theory of softness and hardness. They are an unconscious symbol of the relativity of time and space.
  • Galatea of Spheres description?
    Its an optical illusion, where at first glance you would see an outward blast of spheres, where if you zoom out you would see a woman with her head tilted slightly
  • Rene Magritte art pieces?
    1. The treachery of images
    2. The son of man
    3. The Lovers
  • Surrealist photography artists?
    1. Man Ray
    2. Wanda Wutz
    3. Philippe Halsman
  • Man Ray art?
    Woman with long hair
  • Wanda Wutz art?
    Cat and I
  • Philippe Halsman art?
    Dali Atomicus