Surrealism

Surrealism Introduction 

• Art Movement
• Abstract
• "beyond realism" or "above realism"
• Doesn't have rigid meaning, its just peoples throughs
• Different people, places or objects that you wouldn't normally see together in real life 
• Man Ray 
• Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s
• Best known for its visual artworks or writings`
• Much surrealism work is a distortion 
• Founded by French poet - Andre Breton in his "The Surrealist Manifesto"
• Unnerving
• illogical scenes
• created strange creatures from everyday objects
• Difference from reality
• No pattern or structure
• Find truth in the world through the subconscious mind and dreams
• Stemmed from the Dadaism movement
• unconventional
• commentary about war and capitalism
• politically left wing
• challenged power structures
• Andre Kertesz
• Erik Johansson

Wanda Wulz

Wanda was an Italian experimental photographer.
Her photographs feature cats and humans. The cats are superimposed onto the humans head using Photoshop. This is a surreal effect as it combines two things with each other that you wouldn't expect to see like that. Surrealism is showing an illogical scene and you don't see a cat with a human body or a human with the face of a cat. She uses a black and white effect to create an eerie feeling to the picture, this shows a large difference from the reality that we see in colour. The cat is shown to have slight human features such as the eyes and mouth. Also the way that the image is repeated but this is not in a structured way due to how the images are merged together, being not mirrored but placed in slightly different positions.

Chema Madoz

Jose Maria Rodiguez Madoz is a Spanish photographer best known for his black and white surrealist photographs. His photography contains very geometrical, orderly everyday objects. These however are not logical as they contain different objects that are combined to create something that could be real however wouldn't be. The image that I like the most is that of a ruler combined with a knife. This still has the sharp lines that a ruler would have but is combined with that which creates sharp lines in other objects The image is also in black and white much like many of his other pieces of work. Due to it begin quite simplistic, just placed on a piece of wood, the image doesn't seem to have much meaning however, like with much other surrealism photography, there is a deeper meaning in the picture that can be interpreted in different ways.