Surrealism

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Surrealism


SURREALISM, n. Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express—verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner—the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.

ENCYCLOPEDIA. Philosophy. Surrealism is based in the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected association, in the omnipotence of dream, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principal problems of life.

André Breton, Manifestoes of Surrealism, 1924 trans. Richard Seaver and Helen R. Lane (Ann Arbor, 1969), p. 26.


Cover of the first issue of La Révolution surréaliste, December 1924.


La Révolution surréaliste 12, ed. André Breton (Paris, December 15, 1929), cover.

La Révolution surréaliste 12, ed. André Breton (Paris, December 15, 1929), p. 1.


KEY ARTISTS

Jean Arp Louis Aragon André Breton

Luis Buñuel Jean Cocteau

Salvador Dalí Max Ernst

René Magritte André Masson

Joan Miró Man Ray Yves Tanguy

Paul Delvaux

Dorothea Tanning Tristan Tzara


Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí An Andalusian Dog, 1929


André Masson. Automatic Drawing. 1924. Ink on paper, 23.5 x 20.6 cm. Museum of Modern Art, New York.


Joan MiróThe Tilled Field, 1923–24 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.


Joan Miró Woman and Bird, 1982Barcelona, Spain


René MagritteThe Menaced Assassinб 1927Oil on canvas, 150.4 cm × 195.2 cmMuseum of Modern Art, New York


René Magritte"This is not a pipe." The Treachery of Images 1928–29

Oil on canvas, 63.5 cm × 93.98 cmLos Angeles County Museum of Art


René Magritte The Human Condition, 1933Oil on canvas, 100 cm × 81 cmNational Gallery of Art, Washington DC


René Magritte The Human Condition, 1935Oil on canvas, 100 cm × 81 cmSimon Spierer Collection, Geneva, Switzerland


René Magritte Not to Be Reproduced, 1937Oil on canvas, 81.3 cm × 65 cmMuseum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam


René Magritte Time Transfixed, 1938Oil on canvas, 147 cm × 98.7 cmArt Institute of Chicago


Salvador Dalí Atomic Leda, 1949

Oil on canvas, 61.00 x 46.00 cm. Fundation Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres,


Salvador DalíGalatea of the Spheres, 1952

Oil on canvas, 65.00 x 54.00 cm. Fundation Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres,


Salvador DalíFace of Mae West Which Can Be Used as an Apartment (instalation)c.1974

Fundation Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres,


Salvador Dalí Venus de Milo aux tiroirs1964

Bronze, 98.50 x 32.50 cm. Fundation Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres,


Max ErnstThe Wood, 1927Grattage, 60.5 cm × 81.5 cmNational Museum Cardiff, Wales


Max ErnstL'Ange du Foyer ou le Triomphe du Surréalisme, 1937Private collection.


Max Ernst A Week of Kindness

All five of the original volumes of Une semaine de bonté

First published in 1934. It comprises 182 images created by cutting up and re-organizing illustrations from Victorian encyclopedias and novels


First bookSunday

Mud

Second bookMonday

Water

Third bookTuesday

Fire

Fourth bookWednesday

Blood

Fifth bookThursday

BlacknessFriday

SightSaturday

Unknown


Max Ernst A Week of KindnessPublished in 1934


Man Ray Rayograph, 1922

Gelatin silver print (photogram)22.6 x 17.2 cmMoma


Man Ray Rayograph, 1922

Gelatin silver print (photogram)23.9 x 29.9 cm Moma


Méret Elisabeth Oppenheim Object, 1936,

Museum of Modern Art


DorotheaTanningPoppy Hotel, Room 202 1970-73Mixed media, 340 x 310 x 470 cm, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

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