SURREALISM (1920-1930)

HERONYMUS BOSCH

• Hieronymus Bosch, (Latinised) Jheronimus Bosch; birth name Jeroen van Aken)

• (c. 1450 – August 9, 1516)• was an Early Netherlandish

painter of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Many of his works depict sin and human moral failings.

• Bosch used images of demons, half-human animals and

machines to evoke fear and confusion to portray the evil of man. The works contain complex, highly original, imaginative, and dense use of symbolic figures and iconography, some of which was obscure even in his own time.

• H.Kanters • H.Bosch

In the 1920's and 30's, the proponents of Surrealism, a European visual arts and literary movement, explored the direct expression of the unconscious unobscured by rational thought. Surrealism was influenced by Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytical theories, but the movement was also very much a reaction against the "reason" that had led Europe into the World War I.

• SALVADOR DALI• (1904 – 1989 )• SPANISH

SURREALIST• PAINTER• EXCENTRIC

PERSONALITY

• sense • not real • Colour• mood• Background• Unconscious • Figure• Line • Texture• Fantastic• Composition • plan• Magic• Hallucinatory • broken

René François Ghislain Magritte

1898-1967

Belgian surrealist

‘His art displays ordinary objects in an unusual context, giving new meanings to familiar things’

• golconde

• The human condition

• This is not a pipe (Ceci n'est pas une pipe), which seems a contradiction, but is

actually true: the painting is not a pipe, it is an image of a pipe.

• Mysteries of horizon

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Joan Miró i Ferrà (1893-1983)

• Catalan Spanish surrealist painter

• His work represents subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride

• imaginative fantasy

• Red sun

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