Surrealism

The Surrealists are reading Freud, and arguably misreading him. The read Freud as almost privileging mental illness, considering it a truer state of being. Dreams were also really important to Freud, and therefore dreams are important to the Surrealists. Andre Breton, a poet, is the leader of the surrealist movement, and is credited with splitting it into two separate ‘types’.

Dali is a Spaniard working in France, and is an example of a Dislocated Realist. Dislocated Realism is the idea of creating a visually believable scene where irrationally juxtaposed images are seamlessly fused.

Automatism is the idea of trying to create images automatically, meaning trying to draw or paint without preconceived thought. They are painting directly from the subconscious mind without the intervention of logical conscious thoughts.

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during my first ever survey of western art class, my professor explained the difference between historians and art historians. historians, she said, were interested in old things. art historians, on the other hand, were interested in old things of quality. you don't hang garbage up on the walls of a museum; it has to be substantial and it has to mean something. so here you go; old things, made mostly by dudes long dead, of debatable degrees of quality but always with a constant level of importance. think of this as a deck of flash cards... sans the whole cards part.

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