surrealism

Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud Influences on Surrealism:
Surrealists were also interested in d psychology of Freud & Carl Jung. After studying Freud's experiments, Breton adopted Freud's automatic method of free association to interpret dreams. Freud's central thesis was that adult "dreams are distinguished fulfillments of... infantile sexual desires". Freud used psychoanalysis 2 explore dreams becos he believed they contributed to d truth of real thoughts and wishes of the mind. Carl Jung, a psychologist who also was interested in the study of the unconscious mind, explained that "the unsatisfied yearning of d artist reaches back to the primordial image in d unconscious, which is the best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present". The artist seizes on this image & raising it from deepest unconsciousness, he brings it into relation with conscious values, thereby transforming it until it can be accepted by the minds of his contemporaries according to their powerRead More

XTERISTICS-Surrealism, initially an abstract literary movement, was founded by d French poet André Breton.He adopted d word surrealism & used it in his movement to "position reality into a higher plane".In 1924, Breton published his first manifesto in which he defined Surrealism as "pure psychic automatism, by which on...e intends to express verbally, in writing or by another method, the real function of the mind " Surrealism was a movement that occurred after Dadaism.
Tristan Tzara, the leader of Dada, was outraged by World War I. He thought that society did not deserve beauty,so he demonstrated his discontent by givin it anti-art, not beauty, but ugliness in order to offend d new industrial commercial world [of the] the bourgeoisie". Like Dadaism, Surrealism emphasized d role of d unconscious to explore the human mind.
Unlike Dadaism, it tried to liberate the mind by employing d psychic unconsciousness in a more orderly & serious manner thru thoughts, fantasies, dream-images, & desireRead More

FRIDA KAHLO-the surrealist

Andre Breton, the founder of Surrealism, was fascinated by Frida Kahlo's art. He labeled her a Surrealist because she utilized the elements European Surrealists used to convey their ideas. However, Frida Kahlo never intended to be part of the movement. She painted her life like she did because... it was how she felt. This paper will help the reader comprehend Surrealism as an art movement, discuss Kahlo's life, and also examine the surrealistic elements in her paintings. Once readers are familiar with the characteristics of Surrealism, Kahlo's art, and her life, they can determine whether or not Frida Kahlo was truly a Surrealist.



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