ARTH 112 1st Edition Lecture 33 Surrealism Giorgio di Chirico Mystery and Melancholy of a Street 1914 There was a war that nobody had a particularly good reason for that brought about violence and carnage Millions died Underneath this reality this reality in which we live and have our being another and altogether different reality lies concealed o Nietzsche Creates a culture of suspicion even of one s self o Perspective is odd and the figure s rush to the horizon line is vicious and somewhat disturbing o Renaissance tradition of perspective is actually used against the painting o The open carriage compartment leaves a mystery that is furthered by the shadow in the horizon did it escape Speaks to the primitive psychoanalytic ID It s weird and inexplicable as well as melancholy Giorgio di Chirico Love Song 1920 o Steam in the background references trains which is a phallic symbol o Bust is of Alexander the Great o The picture is composed by symbols which all juxtapose each other that represent things that are dark and covered up Salvador Dal The Persistence of Memory 1931 Free association remembering and recreating dreams helps understand the ID Refutes rationality and romanticism Hand Painted Dream Photographs Paranoiac critical method you are paranoid and afraid for no rational reason you interpret in a paranoid fashion o Ants on the watch symbolize the terror of atomic weapons Salvador Dal Birth of Liquid Desires 1931 32 Biomorphism Biological shapes but purely invented Ren Magritte Le Viol The Rape 1934 Ren Magritte Cecin est pas une pipe This is not a pipe Merit Oppenheim Object Luncheon in Fur 1936 Thought to be genital hair Freudian Inappropriate upsetting
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