Surrealism

Surrealism is a movement that began in the 1920s of writers and artists ( such as Salvador Dali and Magritte). They experimented with ways of unleashing subconscious imagination.

Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision, created strange creatures from everyday objects and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself.

Freud's Theory

1. Dreams

Accessing the subconscious that is playful but disturbing. 

2.Automatism

Drawing from the mind. Accessing materials from the subconscious or unconscious mind. Spontaneous or automatic writing, painting and drawing free association of images and words.

The Objects 

Arranging objects in combinations that challenged reason and summoned subconscious and poetic associations. 

Meret Oppenheim - 'Object'

Joseph Cornell - 'Taglioni's Jewel Casket'

Man Ray - 'Indestructible Object ( Or Object To Be Destroyed) 

The Body

Produced objects and images with an insistently erotic dimention. 

Salvador Dali - 'Retrospective Bust Of A Woman

René Magritte - 'The Lovers'

Hans Bellmer - 'Plate From La Poupée

Landscape 

images of natural scenery

Salvador Dali - 'The Persistence Of Memory

Max Ernst - 'Two Children Are Threatened By A Nightingale

Joan Miró - 'The Hunter (Catalan Landscape)'