Background History Of Surrealism
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Surrealism was founded by the poet André Breton in 1924
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He wrote the Surrealist Manifesto
Salvador Dali
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From Spain
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Painter, sculpter, filmmaker, printmaker, performance artist.
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Very famous surrealist artist
Dali's Inspiration
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Dali was inspired by Pablo Picasso
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He started off with cubism which then led to surrealism
Dali's Process
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Dali used the "paranoiac-critical method”
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That involved creating a self-induced paranoid state
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He would also fall asleep holding a spoon above a tin plate; once the spoon hit the plate he would start drawing
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He would stand on his head until almost passing out to become “semi - lucid”
My Surrealist Bust
NOTE: Project is still in progress.
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My project is a human whose skin was peeled in certain parts of the face to reveal the skull and muscle tissue.
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My project was inspired by surrealist work. My inspiration is that although what you perceive day to day is the outside of someone’s body, I wanted to incorporate the other aspects of the body which equally exist but are unseen to the human eye.