Transformation

Changing
objects in an
unusual
wayto give them a
new meaning.

Girogio de
Chirco


One of the pre-

surrealists
who strongly

influenced the Surrealist
movement









Joining two images together

in impossible combinations













Best known for his

rayographssimilar to

xrays.

Juxtaposition

Man Ray

Salvador
Dal

Rene
Magritte

known for his flamboyant

personality and unusual
behavior. Believed that to creat
fantastic images that one needed
to suspend rational thought. Most
famous work: The Persistence of
Memory

A wallpaper designer and

commercial artist known for
depicting normal everyday things
in bizarre manners. Often the
bizarre quality of these paintings
was caused by strange
dislocations and ambiguity

Transparency

Being able to see through
something. In surrealism
applying transparency to
something that would not
normally possess it. (This can
also be considered Changing
Natural Law)

Scale Change

Taking proportion and
blowing it up or shirking
it down in relation to
other objects.

Dislocation

Levitation

Placing an object in an
unusual location,
somewhere where you
wouldnt expect to see it.

Taking an object that
does not normally float
or flying and giving it the
gift of floating or flying.

Jacek
Yerka

Joan Mir

A surrealist sculptor and
ceramicist.

Contemporary Surrealist
artist