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- Melancholy and Mystery of a Street
- Artist: De Chirico
- Era: Surrealism
- Techniques:
- squares and palaces of Renaissance Italy because they evoke disquieting sense of uncertainty
- suggest images that transend physical existence
- most things should be reckognizable
- ominous shadow of a man
- strangeness of familiar scenes
- underneath this reality there is another one
- deep shadows and angles create antcipation
- every angle merges towards her
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- The Soothsayer's Recompense
- Artist: De Chirico
- Era: Surrealism
- Techniques:
- Carravagesque lighting in spooky way
- scupltureal muse in awkward pose
- harsh angled light and shadow
- disquieting space and time shattered by train in background
- frozen time emphasized by the clock
- sculpture or real woman?
- stark, quiet piazza
- tilted perspective
- broken arcade emphasize emptiness of piazza
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- Two Children are Threatened by a Nightingale
- Artist: Ernst
- Era: Surrealism
- Techniques:
- 3-dimensional work
- renaissance idea of painting should be a window looking into a scene
- collage mixed media piece with three sketched figures of dream world
- 3d mini gate
- odd button like knob, violate frames space
- more dislocation in traditional museum label
- nightingales are supposed to be beautiful singing birds but challenges that image
- dislocation of subject matter
- words contradict the scene
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- Un Chien Andalou
- Artists: Dali and Bunuel
- Era: Surrealism
- Techniques:
- film- 2 dead mules in baby grand pianos
- 2 men at opposite ends of piano
- viewer is displaced from one dream-like moment to the next
- evokes attraction and repulsion at same time
- women in background with shovel
- trying to interpret Freud
- slicing eyeball - eye of cow
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- The Persistence of Memory
- Artist: Dali
- Era: Surrealism
- Techniques:
- haunting allegory of empty space where time has ended
- never setting sun in an amorphous landscape
- ants and fly alludes to decaying organic life
- clocks are melted or soft and sticky
- things decay over time
- alter shape, perspective
- time is about memories, as time passes memories change
- similar to Bosch
- sharp, crisply outlined objects
- bright colors and out of place objects
- dead carcass in desert but is actual a face - Dali's self portrait
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- Invention of the Monsters
- Artist: Dali
- Era: Surrealism
- Techniques:
- erotically charged painting
- terror, viloence and sexuality
- flaming giraffes - falloc symbols
- bathing women look like giant elephants
- allusion to Galattea and Pigmaleon
- bisexual dynamic because they have 2 faces, one male and one female
- table with objects that allusions to creation
- metamorphasis of narcissus on table flower
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- The Treachery of Images
- Artist: Magritte
- Era: Surrealism
- Techniques:
- danger of relying on rationality
- meticulously renders a trompe l'oiel
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- The Human Condition
- Artist: Magritte
- Era: Surrealism
- Techniques:
- landscape painting in front of ladscape
- realize that assumption is wrong
- assuming that view outside reality is wrong
- repeatring cycle of human condition
- one is real and one is representation
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- Time Transfixed
- Artist: Magritte
- Era: Surrealism
- Techniques:
- surprising juxtaposition and scale shift
- train emergine from fireplace vent that looks like a tunnel
- mirror shows that room is empty
- smoke of train suggests smoke from fireplace
- frozen clock
- no candles in candlestick holders
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- Man with a Newspaper
- Artist: Magritte
- Era: Surrealism
- Techniques:
- a subverted comic strip based on illustration
- slight changes of perspective
- subtle undermining of the everyday
- alludes to a film still
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- Object
- Artist: Oppenheim
- Era: Surrealism
- Techniques:
- fur covered cup, saucer and spoon
- concrete tangibility that made surrealist art more disquieting
- incongruity, humor, visual appeal, and eroticism
- animated by juxtaposition of fur
- allusion to alchemy with transformation
- seductive, soft tactile concave form that needs to be inserted by a spoon to stir the liquid
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- The Two Fridas
- Artist: Kahlo
- Era: Surrealism
- Techniques:
- same image of herself side by side with two hearts linked by a single artery
- holding portrait of Diego Rivera, her husband
- she was communist
- defining Mexican national identity
- strong unibrow to give her power
- blood dripping alludes to miscarriage
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- Painting
- Artist: Miro
- Era: Surrealism
- Techniques:
- scattered collage composition
- assembled fragments cut from a catalog on machines
- fragments became free, open shapes
- shapes are motifs that are freely reshaped into black silhouettes
- dramatic accents of white and red
- suggests a host of amebic organisms or constelations in outer space
- space is filled with soft reds, blues, and greens
- spontaneous and intuitive expressions of the subconcious
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- Twittering Machine
- Artist: Klee
- Era: Surrealism
- Techniques:
- there would be a day when we wouldn't need birds anymore
- birds and nature are combined
- birds consisting of wires attached to a crank - nature will soon be mechanized
- child-like in the line drawings
- power of the message enhanced by small size
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- The Falling Angel
- Artist: Chagall
- Era: Surrealism
- Techniques:
- crucifixion in right hand corner - duality of Judaism and Christianity - promoting tolerance
- being Jewish in a Russian town
- flaming angel that plummets across a moonlit sky
- within one of its wings is a mother and child that is a vision floating over the sleeping village
- peasant holds Toros scroll and is protecting it
- mysteriously floating violin next to a cow
- lighted candle represents sacred light
- alludes to terrors of war
- resignation and hope
- moving into WWII
- suffering of all ordinary peopl
- faith is important for salvation in a world of suffering
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- Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying
- Artist: Malevich
- Era: Suprematism and Constructionism
- Techniques:
- basic form of non-objective art - the square
- used in conjunction with straight lines and rectangles
- floating against and within the white space
- creating very dynamic relationship
- purity
- everyone can respond to the art subconsciously
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- Column
- Artist: Naum Gabo
- Era: Suprematism and Constructionism
- Techniques:
- depth of the sculpture is visible because he opens the columns circular mass so that the viewer can experience the space it occupies
- two transparent planes that extend through its diameter perpendicular to each other
- opaque colored planes
- establishes a sense of dynamic, kinetic movement
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- Monument to the Third International
- Artist: Tatlin
- Era: Suprematism and Constructionism
- Techniques:
- only a model
- to honor the revolution
- intended to be twice the height of the empire state building
- propaganda for Soviets
- three geometrically shaped chambers
- each rotate at a different speed
- at the bottom would've been a huge glass cylinder - house lectures and meetings and revolve once a year
- cone shaped structure - house administrative functions and it would rotate once a month
- cubic shaped info center that would revolve daily - issue news bulletins and proclamations - open air new screen
- project words onto clouds on overcast days
- no hidden skeletal structure
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