Surrealism Flashcards
Dates
1920-1940
How did it differ from Dada’s aims?
It aimed to be a positive change from the traditionally art of the past.
What was surrealism concerned with?
Inspired by freud and the releasing of the unconscious mind. Used automatism and illusionism.
The great masturbator, date and symbolism?
1929, eggs refer to fertility and the ants to sexual anxiety.
Date and techniques used in Ernst’s ‘forest’ and ‘Forest and Dove’
1927, used Frottage and Grattage. rubbing and scraping the surface of paint to create forms.
The virgin smacking christ date and symbolism?
1926, reddress not blue connotes devil, familiar charters doing strange things very like a dream.
‘Tilled field’ and ‘Harelquin Carnival’
1924 and 1925
Magritte on the threshold of freedom?
1937
The object
Oppenheim 1936
