Art History Surrealism Project.

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  1. History of surrealism
  2. Influence of Dada as a for runner of surrealism
  3. The influence of Freud and the interpretation of dreams and the unconscious
  4. The idea of “systematic random composition, automatism and the role of accident” in the development of surrealist work
  5. The idea of mocking established works. “the parody and mockery of established artists and pictures”
  6. The idea of installation of disassociated objects, illusions, the frozen moment and empty landscape or cityscape.
  7. 3 pieces of critically examined and evaluated works of surrealism art
  8. Bibliography

The History of Surrealism

What is surrealism?

Surrealism is the art of self-discovery. Surrealism helps us explore our unconscious mind. Surrealism helps us to find out who we really are and how are dormant mind sees and interprets its surroundings.

History of surrealism

The art movement surrealism all began after World War 1 about a quarter of the way through the 20th century. Surrealism was intentionally meant to be the anger of the artists portrayed in art forms. It was a revolt against the horrors of the war and revolt against rationalism. The surrealist artists did this because they believed that the world did not deserve any form of beautiful art and so they did not give it to them. Instead of these beautiful drawing they got mockeries of old established art, bloodshed and ugliness. However, the victims of surrealism were not at all offended, instead of being horrified they marvelled at the new weird and wonderful drawings these surrealist artists had created. With this new reaction to the surreal paintings a new art movement was born. It was helped especially by the Dada movement.

During the beginning of surrealism two groups were brought into being. One of these was automatism and the other was veristic surrealism. These two groups were made by Jung and Freud as a purpose for personal analysis.

Automatism was a way for the artists to interpret images from the subconscious and leave them unchanged so that they could be understood through analysis.

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The veristic surrealists believed in automatists but they thought that you should not be looking at them but within them to understand. This group then broke out into three more groups.

Surrealism went through many different stages as surrealists found new ways of expressing themselves in a surreal way. There were many different forms, methods and ways of doing a surrealistic art piece.

The influence of Dada

Dada was one of the surreal artists that influenced surrealism and even had a ...

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