SURREALSIM (1924 – 1945)
Sigmund Freud: Psychoanalysis treat mental disorders, caused by CONSCIOUS minds, while the
UNCONSCIOUS mind still holds. Fix free association, dream analysis, hypnosis etc.
Links to Freud: dreams imager, self-exploration, unconscious, Freud unheimlich, castration
anxiety and fetishes
Themes: mans finite nature, desire
Surrealism wanted to free the unconscious and reconcile it with the conscious, free mankind
from “shackles of logic and reason”
War, conceptual
Automatism Dream-image illusionism
Free visual association Academic illusionism (much more
theory involved)
Improvisation
Dream-images rendered in a
Lyrical, abstract, loosely drawn figures
naturalistic style, Image–makers
Disquieting images of everyday
Joan Miró. The objects
Treachery of
René
Images
Magritte.
Son of man
Oil on canvas
Overcoat,
bowler hat,
oil on canvas
Salvador Dali,
Retrospective
Bust of a
woman
Porcelain,
inkstand,
bread