Surrealism- 20th century art – Flashcards
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Max Ernst, two children are threaten by a nightingale, 1924
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started from his illness two girls frighten by a tiny bird never imposes the title title existed before he painted
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Max Ernst, Europe after the rain 1940-42
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Decalcomania- placing paper or glass on wet painted surface escaped WWII- New York rise of fascism
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Max Ernst, Surrealism and painting, 1942
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oil abstract display a bird as a beast atomically-swung paint over the canvas from a hole in a tin can
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Yves Tanguy, Mama, Papa is wounded, 1927
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color gradient sharp horizontal line-continuity reflection on WWI anxiety or reflects family- no exact meaning
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Joan Miro, Carnival of Harlequin, 1924-25
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about the character Harlequin mysterious actual whole in the body- starving sphere- hope and glow black triangle- Eiffel tower
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Joan Miró, The Poetess from the series Constellations, 1940
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influenced by fauvism and cubism bird migrating ideas of flight and transformation stars bird, women, light music
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André Masson, Battle of Fishes, 1926
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story about Greek goddess create the island don't know where it starts and finish escape from reality sand painting more naturalistic mythological themes
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Andre Masson, Pasiphaë, 1943
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painted while he recover from ww1 sand, charcoal on canvas different materials-shark tooth fish, underwater Savetism of all living creatures
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Meret Oppenheim. Object (Luncheon in Fur) 1936
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female surrealist cover with fur conversation with Picasso revels erotic ambivalence and sexual anxiety repellent and eroticized
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Salvador Dalí. The Persistence of Memory. 1931
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childhood one thing into other meaning at one time irrational and rational world can control time, but we cant animal-himself soft watches- condition of softness
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Salvador Dalí, Soft Construction with Boiled Beans: Premonition of Civil War, 1936
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oil painted 6 months before Spanish war psychological torment and physical suffering reaction to the civil war object face pull apart
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René Magritte, The Treachery of Images, 1928-29
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a representational of a pipe
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René Magritte, The Human Condition, 1933
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frame by a window inception of painting puzzle piece of what you see outside picture within a picture tree exist in and outside the picture
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Leonora Carrington, Self-Portrait,1936-37
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white horse- freedom celtic mythology and childhood; sexual desire
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Dorothea Tanning, Some Roses and Their Phantoms,1952
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married to Max Ernst objects don't fit, origami paper mixing themes contradiction
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Pablo Picasso, girl before a mirror, 1932
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painter of his lover still life interest in self conscious geometric shapes, bright color attitude in reflection-darker color-unconscious-disorder
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Pablo Picasso, Painter and Model, 1928
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makes them ordinary painting model profile-reality- strange in reality flip idea of reality and imagination-reverse
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Pablo Picasso. Guernica. 1937
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Hitler and airforce bomb the town Protest the war huge convey emotion newspaper print Spanish civil war a scene of terror and devastation Cubism
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Joan Miro Painting, 1933
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mysterious forms and animal organic abstract object collages from newspaper
