Surrealism (followed as Dadaism died out)
Features:
- Less Political (?!)
- New Psychological Theories of Sigmund Freud
- 1899 “The Interpretation of Dreams”
- Access to the subconscious mind
Some early Surreal artists (started as a small group, just as Dadaism):
- Max Earnst
- Rene Magritte
- Salvadore Dali
- Giorgio De Chirico
- Man Ray
- Jean Arp
- Freud kicks off Surrealism with “Interpretation of Dreams”
- Idea that people have subconscious thoughts is novel at the time
- Attempt to access the subconscious mind at the core of Surrealism
- Many similarities with Dadaism
- Rene Magrette the "poster boy" of Surrealism
- Taking the expectations of reality and snapping them - shocking people out of everyday experience
- Rebelling against the sort of middle class that they were a part of
- Idea of person of a cog in a machine as the middle class of the time
- Industrial society was new at the time
- Cubism seen as a way to "junk it up" among surrealists
- Much of what is taken for granted today influenced by surrealism (such as cartoon physics)
- Articulation of fantasy long precedes Surrealism (Roman temples, etc.)
- Surrealism more about personal fantasy rather than shared mythology
- Avatar traced back to Max Earnst (?)
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