Surrealism 0.0 / 5 ? History of Art20th centuryA2/A-levelAQA Created by: epearce1998Created on: 19-06-17 10:43 Magritte 'The Threatened Assassin' (1926-7) Description Sexual murder, stage set up with two men framing door, space for viewer to look in Nude with towel on divan, decapitated, blood trickles, man stands to leave by phonograph Three men look in, gaze meets viewers, we feel threatened voyeuristic Hyper-realism- recognisable objects/characters = unease Context Sadist crime interested Surrealists, Breton: 'beauty must be convulsive or not at all' Breton: 'women are the most disturbing and mysterious' - primal desire of men in suits Megaphone replays scream, dead woman common motif due to drowing of Magritte's mother Influences Fantomas, pulp fiction of Allain and Souvestre, mise en scene from 1912 film Violent, ****** poetry of Nouge- describes the man in the painting 'Murderous Corpse' film 1913 had same dectective placing Murder case of Henry Landrew who killed women for money 1 of 3 Dali 'The Great Masturbator' (1929) Description Distorted human face (based on Catalonian rocks), nude rises from it (Gala), fantasy Mouth near male crotch, waist down, cuts on knees, limpness juxtaposed with lion's tongue Ants swarm on grasshoppers abdonmen, adult and child in landscape and egg (fertility) Context Confliction towards sex, father has left explicit photos of diseases, saw sex as decay Freudian dream logic, concept of Eros and Thantos, only safety in masturbation Loctus links to fear of castrastion, female bites off male's head in sex Style Realistic style to de-rail reality, irrational juxtaposition of odd objects together Hallucinatory and irrational 'concrete irrationality', and aesthetic of 'convulsive beauty' Hiernoymus Bosch's 'Garden of Earthly Delights' 2 of 3 Miro 'Catalan Landscape: The Hunter' (1923) Description Stick figure of hunter, triangle head, smokes pipe, heart and genitals, holds rabbit and gun Catalan and French flags cross, balanced by Spanish, squiggly poo juxtaposed by triangle Stretched out fish, tries to eat insect, pees as it flies away, everything eating, eaten or excretes Central eye- source of creative imagery, everything symbol e.g. tress just circle and leaf Style Unconcious imaginings, stream of conscience, automatic, child-like and made up Flat, lack of depth, repeated forms, abstract vision rather than realism of other Surrealists Emphasis on process- dream painting not a painted dream Context Jung's work on origin of symbols, linked to Freud, symbols imbedded in culture - meaningful Microscopic biology, links with scientists, Motherwell: 'breathes erocitism with freedom, grace' Sard- Spanish dance, nostalgia for childhood, champions naive e.g. Cheval's 'Palais Ideal' 3 of 3
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