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Surreal
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"Beyond reality"
Describes imagery that is dream-like, eerie, bizarre, disoriented, fantasy, mysterious. |
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Surrealists
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Love: randomness
Irrationality Absurdity Experimenting |
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Main Influences
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New Science of Psychology
The research into the inner-workings of the human brian Sigmund Freud's theories and his practice of psychoanalysis Dream Interpretation Horrors of WW I and II and the upheaval and disorientation that accompanied these wars |
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Time Period
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Late 1920's to Early 1950's
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Frottage
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To Rub
The technique in which you rub over various surfaces to make impressions of rich textures and use these to create imaginary scenes, creatures or figures. |
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"Automatic" drawing/writing
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performed without conscious intention
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Rorschach Ink Blot
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how it is made, what it was used for (psychoanalysis)
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"Exquisite Corpse"
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a "parlor game" mystery collaboration
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Decalomania
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technique- painting freely on paper and printing this image onto glassy surface. Used to create surprising, imaginative pictures.
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Change of Scale
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Strange and irregular sizes of objects
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Defying laws of physics
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impossible physical feats (trains levitating; flying telephones; floating apples; etc...)
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Juxtapositions
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things placed together in a picture that seem like odd combinations; or that create an impossible scenerio.
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Transformation
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objects and people that mysteriously change (people become rocks; birds made of wood)
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Burning Giraffe
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Salvador Dali
1930 |
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Time Transfixed
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Rene Magrieet
1939 |
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The Heart String
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Rene Magrieet
1960 |
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The Human Condition
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1933
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Two Ambiguous Figures
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Max Ernst
1920 |
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The Palace at Four A.M.
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Alberto Giacometti
1932 |
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The Persistence of Memory
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Salvador Dali
1933 |
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The Inigma of Hitler
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Salvador Dali
1941 |
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Sleep
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Dali
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de Chirico
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buildings in the way
towers flags/boxes |
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R.E.M. Sleep
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Rapid Eye Movement
When most vivid episodes of dreaming occur by waking sleepers during REM periods. Enables us to work more accurately with the images, symbols and other physic events |
