Surrealism

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Surrealism

• The art of Dreams!

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Conceptualism
Art about the idea
Paul Gauguin
This post-impressionist started the idea of
creating his own symbolism. Creating meaning
through art had existed but was done with
predetermined formulas
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Basic Methods of Creating Meaning

• Juxtaposition
• Placing things next to each other to create
  meaning
• Appropriation
• Taking another persons symbol, composition, or
  idea and using in a unique way.
• Recontextualization
• Taking something out of its normal context, or
  environment.

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Juxtaposition!
Placing two things together for comparison and
contrast to create a new meaning
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Appropriation
Using other persons composition to create a new
meaning
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Recontextualization
Taking one symbol, object, creature or person and
putting it in a new context, creating a new
meaning.
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Lets Review
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Some Examples
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Juxtaposition
Juxtaposition is placing images side by side for
comparison and contrast.
Superimposed
To superimpose means to place one image onto of
another
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Transparency
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Dislocation
Recontextualization
This is a form of Recontextualization. Taking an
object and placing it in a context that it would
not normally be seen
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Here some examples from Humor!
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Transformation
Metamorphosis
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Change Natural Law
Surreal art often takes natural law and changes
it. Making things levitate or changing scale.
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Scale Change
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Levitation
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Dislocation, Juxtaposition, Transparency,
Superimpose, Transformation, Change Natural Law,
Levitation, Scale Change
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Dislocation, Metamorphosis, Transparency,
Superimpose, Transformation, Change Natural Law,
Levitation, Scale Change