Dadaism and Surrealism
Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Z端rich Switzerland, from 1916 to 1922 Switzerland was a neutral country during
World War I, (it was from 1914 to 1918)
Dadaists ridiculed contemporary culture and traditional art forms. Dadaists were irrational, absurd, playful, intuitive and cryptic.
Dada is a word chosen at random from a French-German dictionary.
Dada artists Tristan Tzara (1896-1963 poet, journalist, literary and art critic,) one of the founders Dadaism.
Louis Aragon (1897-1982poet, novelist and editor)
Andre Breton (1896-1966 poet, and surrealist theorist) he was the principal founder of Surrealism. Is the first time, an artistic movement start with writers ideas.
Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s. Dadaism and Surrealism worked together. They would want to represent dreams and unconscious experience. They used unusual combinations of images.
Dictionary: Surrealism, pure psychic automatism, by which one proposes to express ideas either verbally, in writing, or drawing. Dictation of thought in the absence of all control exercised by reason, outside of all aesthetic and moral preoccupation.
Giorgio de Chirico was a pre-surrealist painter •He idealized Italian cities, as well as, •apparently casual juxtapositions of objects •visionary world with the unconscious mind, •beyond physical reality •he founded, the art movement called “scuola metaphafisic” •Was born in Greece
Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) In the foreground……. Behind In the centre On the right It looks as if it was In the background, on the left there…… it looks an or a In general Could be…… or may be…….
Love Song (1914) 73 x 59.1 cm.
In pairs o in groups of four students We are going to use some sentences to describe painting, it is a formal description:
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Hector and Andromache. 1917. Oil on canvas.
The Disquieting Muses. 1918. Oil on canvas (97.16 cm Ă— 66 cm)
Joan Miró (1893-1983) •Miró invented a new artistic language with poetical imagination •He invented a lot of symbols to represent people or animals, stars, the moon, or the sun. •He used techniques such as Automatism
Self-Portrait. 1919. Oil on canvas. 75 x 60 cm.
Catalan Landscape (The Hunter). 1923/24. Oil on canvas. (64.8 x 100.3)
Carnival of Harlequin 1925 (66 x 93)
Painting 1927. Tempera and oil on canvas (97,2 x 1,30) TĂŞte de paysan Catalan 1925 oil on canvas (92 x 73,2 cm)
Constellation
The Nightingale's Song at Midnight and the Morning Rain. 1940. Gouache and turpentine paint on paper. 38 x 46 cm.
Constellation: The Morning Star. 1940 Gouache and turpentine paint on paper. 38 x 46
Ciphers and Constellations, in Love with a Woman. 1941. Gouache and terpentine on paper
What is the difference between this picture and the others that you have seen before?
The smile of a tear, 1973 Acrylic on canvas 200 x 200 cm
RenĂŠ Magritte Belgian(1898-1967)
showed reality, but in a surrealist way
Golconda (1953) (65 x 65cm)
The invisible world 1954 (91 x 66cm)
The Listening Room 1952 (65x65)
RenĂŠ Magritte
The Menaced Assassin. 1926. Oil on canvas. 152 x 195
The Lovers. 1928. Oil on canvas. 54.2 x 73
Attempting the Impossible. 1928. Oil on canvas. 105.6 x 81
La Condition humaine. 1933. Oil on canvas. 100 x 81
The Red Model. 1934. Oi on canvas. (183 x 136)
La ThĂŠrapeute. 1941. Gouache sur papier. ( 47.6 x 31.3)
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) •Dalí used the omnipotence of dream, in the disinterested play of thought. •Dalí used Psychic mechanisms to solve all the principal problems of life. Self-Portrait with Raphaelesque Neck. 1921-1922. Oil on canvas. 41.5 x 53 cm
The Persistence of Memory. 1931. Oil on canvas, (24.1 x 33 cm)
Girl With a Pearl Earring (1665),
Johannes Vermeer Girl with pearl earing(1665)
The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table (1934)
Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War)1936 100 cm Ă— 99 cm
Metamorphosis of Narcissus (1937) 51.1 cm Ă— 78.1
The Great Masturbator. 1929. Oil on canvas. 110 x 150 cm
Exquisite corpse (also known as "exquisite cadaver") It is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. This technique was invented by Surrealists writers and was followed by painters. Some them
Start to game Players write or drawing, in turn on a sheet of paper, then fold, and pass it, next player, the next mustn't see his drawing, only a little part, Then, the next player, added his or her contribution.