Group 2 Project

Surrealism 
Presentation by Dip Patel and Alyssa Duke

Definition of Surrealism: a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.

Artists to refer back to:

Eugenia Loli
Collage artist Eugenia Loli uses photography scanned from vintage magazines and science publications to create bizarre visual narratives that borrow from aspects of pop art, dada, and traditional surrealism She previously worked as a nurse, a computer programmer, and as a technology journalist, but has only recently found a calling in collage work with publication in numerous magazines since 2013.

Ignacio Nazabal
Famous painter from Havana, Cuba who left his job as a biologist to devote himself to painting. His classical surrealism draws on Magritte and Dali. He also draws on the late 16th century painter Arcimboldo's device for the figuring of heads and bodies using piled up objects. Nazábal particularly likes to use butterflies and fruits.

Salvador Dali
A Spanish artist and Surrealist icon, Salvador Dali began his surrealist phase when he started interacting with artists such as Picasso, Magritte and Miro.  From an early age, Dalí was encouraged to practice his art and would eventually go on to study at an academy in Madrid.

Vladimir Kush

Known as the Russian Dali, Vladmir Kush is a Russian born artist that seeks to have his audience see the world differently. His work is in fact inspired by the works of Salvador Dali.

-Leonora Carrington

-Paul Klee

-Marc Chagall






References:

1. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/surrealism
2. http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/10/surreal-collages-by-eugenia-loli/
3. http://www.tuttartpitturasculturapoesiamusica.com/2012/03/jorge-ignacio-nazabal-1962-surrealist.html
4. https://www.biography.com/people/salvador-dal-40389
5. http://artinrussia.org/russian-salvador-dali/