SURREALISM

Kelly Toapanta, Eileen Gonzales

Camila Barragán
 WHAT IS IT?
Surrealism was an artistic and literary movement created by André Breton that used
fantasy, myths and dreamlike images in works of art. Surrealism emerged in Europe in
the 1920s as a reaction to the atrocities of World War I and the political-cultural values of
the time.
 CHARACTERISTICS OF
SURREALISM ART

• The element of fantasy • Eccentric, shocking and mysterious

• Metaphysical atmosphere
• Dreamlike and bizarre images depicting
The visual • Creepy creatures and fantastical forms from

mysterious environments and landscapes. characteristics of everyday objects

• The use of visual form to express and translate the
• Representation with almost photographic
precision. Hyperrealistic representation
surrealism are as unconscious
of form and volume. follows: • Experimental techniques and forms such as collage,
frottage, doodling,
• A distortion of reality with contradictory elements
and random associations. decalcomania, and grattage
 TECHNIQUES OF SURREALISM
One of the most popular techniques used by many surrealist artists to access the
unconscious was automatism.
ART WORKS BATTLE OF THE
FISHES
Salvador Dalí, THE
André Masson, 1927
PERSISTENCE OF
MEMORY, 1931

AUTOMATIC THE LIFE

DRAWING
Pablo Picasso, 1903
(1934) by André Masson
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