the pen being permitted to move freely accross the page without any concious intervention on the part of the author is what?
Automatic writing
Surrealist work between 1924 and 1929 was concerned with trying to find ways of releaseing what?
uncensored language of the unconcious
T/F Rene margitte's painting The Reckless Sleeper exemplified the surrealist attempt to engage with the process of dreamwork.
True
What did Freud regard as the underpining of human exsistance and actions?
Libido/sexual desire
Psycoanalysis was originally intended to have what effect?
Therapeutic
What religion was a target of surrealists throughout the 1920s?
Catholic Church
Who was Andre Breton?
Self styled leader of the surrealist artists and writers
Aundre Breton wrote what surrealist document?
First manifesto of surrealism
Who wrote the publication 'First Manifesto of Surrealism'
Aundre Breton
Who are the two men who's theories were combined in Surrealism?
Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud
What was not just an art movement but a self-concious revolutionary cultural project that ranged beyond the conventional boundries of art and literature?
Surrealism
T/F Battle of the Fishes does nhot demonstrait how Masson negotiated the impasse of automatism to produce a finished work
false
The Battle of the Fishes evokes a scene from what novel?
Maldoror
Who was the writer of Maldoror
le comte de lautreamont
Author of Maldoror and who was one of a pantheon of literary and other heros selected by the surrealists to establish cultural precedents for their own activities
le comte de lauteamont
where was Dali's first one person exhibition held?
Paris
Who's work has a recurrent engagement with the construction of feminity, staged in different seneros within photographs?
Cahun
the frontal positioning and lighting of Self-Portrait by Cahun evoke photographic portraits of what occultists?
Madame Blavatsky and Aleister Crowley
an inner vision, a redirecting of focus towards the envisioning of the unconcious is shows by what in Self-Portrait?
Blaked out eyes
what kovement was oppenheim part of
surrealism
what movement was dali part of?
surrealism
what movement was Magritte part of?
Surealism
What movement was Masson part of?
Surrealism
What movement was Cahun part of?
Surrealism
Breker was whose favorite sculptor?
hitler
what was the one group of artists not invited to the exposition international in paris
surrealists
This artist believed that an artist should paint to unload his instincts, desire and feelings
Picasso
Stephen Spender; implicity identified this painting as a form of new realism by noting that its flickering monochrome and its flatness evoked the newsreals, photographs, and newspapers to which Picasso owed his knowlage of the horror he depicted
Guernica
What movement was Picasso part of
modernism
this artist was often described as the quintessential 1930s artist
Shahn
This artist paintings, posters and magazine illustrations became emblamatic of the struggle against social injustice
Shahn
This artist's figurative painting seeminly makes few cocessions in the direction of Abstract art
Shahn
This artist work highlights the banality of the ordinary and the everyday
shahn
T/F/ One effect of the depression was to stimulate many american artist to develop an art that was responsive to its immediate social context.
true
who wrote the essay "Avant Gaurd and kitch"
Greenberg
what artist is arguably the caribbean artist who is most well known in the west?
Lam
this artist refered to his art as "the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in"
Pollock
In Rothko's early work of the 1940s he drew upon what sources?
mythological, archaie and hellenic in orgin
What artist said "I comunicate them more directly than your friend Ben Shahn, who is essentially a journalist/"
Rothko
What painter did pollock train with
Thomas Heart Benton
Gottlieb's Labyrinth No2 the imagry is reminiscent of that Tribes blankets?
Tlingit
Wjp omsosted tjat Abstract Expressionist paintings were the outcome of the artists confrontation with predetermined formal problems
