SURREALISM

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SURREALISM

• And the artist
• RENE MAGRITTE

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• Surrealism is a 20th-century literary and
  artistic movement

that attempted to express the workings of the
subconscious by using fantastic imagery and the
incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter.
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• Surrealism is a term that refers to a heightened
  sense of reality translated from French, the
  term means over-realism-- a vision of reality
  that supercedes the mundane!

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RENE MAGRITTE

• (pronounced rna mägrt, 1898-1967)

"My painting is visible images which conceal
nothing they evoke mystery and, indeed, when one
sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this
simple question 'What does that mean'? It does
not mean anything, because mystery means nothing
either, it is unknowable. -
René Magritte
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Rene Magritte was a Belgian surrealist
painter.

• He painted in a realistic style. While the
  objects appear to the viewer to be recognizable,
  the composition of those recognizable objects
  appears fantastic.

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• His paintings are expressive for their
  juxtaposition of common objects, often altered in
  scale, and placed in absurd settings. Magritte is
  deeply interested in the process of thought, and
  his paintings

tend to raise the awareness of the viewer to
their own thought processes.
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• More often than not, Magritte chose ordinary
  things from which to construct his works - trees,
  chairs, tables, doors, windows, shoes, shelves,
  landscapes, people. He wanted to be understood
  via these ordinary things, but he also wanted to
  shock and surprise his viewers.

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Surrealistic Techniques - How to make the
ordinary look extraordinary

• Scale
• Levitation
• Juxtaposition
• Dislocation
• Transparency
• Transformation

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SCALE

• Changing an objects scale, or relative size.

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SCALE
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Personal Values
SCALE
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LEVITATION

• Floating objects that dont normally float

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LEVITATION
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Golconde
LEVITATION
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JUXTAPOSITION

• Joining two images together in impossible
  combinations

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JUXTAPOSITION
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JUXTAPOSITION
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DISLOCATION

• Taking an object form its usual environment and
  placing it in an unfamiliar one

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DISLOCATION
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DISLOCATION
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TRANSPARENCY

• Making objects transparent that are not usually
  transparent

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TRANSPARENCY
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TRANSPARENCY
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TRANSFORMATION

• Changing objects in unusual way

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TRANSFORMATION
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TRANSFORMATION