Surrealist strategies
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Surrealism developed between 1910-1920 as an artistic movement that explored the subconscious mind and dream imagery influenced by Freudian psychology. René Magritte was a prominent surrealist artist whose paintings featured common objects altered in scale or placed in absurd settings to raise viewers' awareness of their own thought processes. Some surrealist techniques Magritte employed included scale changes, levitation, juxtaposition of unrelated objects, dislocating objects from their usual environments, making objects transparent, and transformation.
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Surrealist strategies
- 1. SURREALISM is a literary and artistic movement that developed between 1910 and 1920’s. Artists and poets plumbed the subconscious mind and dream imagery, heavily influenced by the psychological studies of Sigmund Freud. Rene Magritte, ‘Le Portrait’, 1935. MOMA, NYC
- 2. "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
- 3. 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.
- 4. Surrealistic Techniques - “How to make the ordinary look extraordinary” Scale Levitation Juxtaposition Dislocation Transparency Transformation
- 5. SCALE Changing an object’s scale, or relative size.
- 6. SCALE
- 7. SCALE Artist; Rene Magritte Personal Values, 1952 René Magritte (Belgian, 1898-1967) Surrealism
- 9. LEVITATION Floating objects that don’t normally float
- 10. LEVITATION Rene Magritte- Le château des Pyrénées
- 12. JUXTAPOSITION Joining two images together in impossible combinations
- 13. JUXTAPOSITION
- 14. JUXTAPOSITION
- 15. DISLOCATION Taking an object form its usual environment and placing it in an unfamiliar one
- 16. DISLOCATION
- 17. TRANSPARENCY Making objects transparent that are not usually transparent
- 18. TRANSPARENCY
- 19. TRANSPARENCY
- 21. La Durée poignardée (Time Transfixed) Rene Magritte, 1938, Oil on Canvas Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago TRANSFORMATION
- 22. TRANSFORMATION
- 23. TRANSFORMATION
- 24. Surreal Landscape Drawing Criteria: •create a drawing using direct observation of their cityscape (with a foreground, middle ground, background and horizon line). •Apply a surreal element, using at least one surreal technique; juxtaposition, transformation, scale change, dislocation, levitation, transparency •Use photographs as reference to produce a drawing that is accurate to the details of the object. • Utilize symbolism related to their identity. •Move the viewers eye around the work, use balance and contrast.
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