What is the MANIFESTO SURREALISM

Question

i have to speak about Manifesto Surrealism in easy words. Thanks

Answer 1

André Breton (1896-1966)  



The Manifests of Surrealism were two in number, 1924 and 1929. The first was written by André Breton, the second supervised by him. Breton drafted a third Surrealist Manifesto, which was never issued. The first manifest was the most important theoretical statement of the movement. Breton (1896-1966), a French poet and essayist founded the Surrealistic movement together with Paul Eluard, Luis Buñuel, and Salvador Dali.

The contents of Breton's Manifest (i.e. his statement) are very clearly  described in the first paragraph at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealist_... and include Brfeton's definition of  Surrealism which  you should definitely quote in your talk:

:Surrealism is "Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner -- the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern."  

http://www.seaboarcreations.com/sindex/m...

Answer 2

The Manifesto of Surrealism 1999

http://www.screensite.org/courses/Jbutle...

Salvador Dali

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXT2E9Ccc...

http://www.surrealism.org/

Answer 3

The term 'surrealism' was first used by the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire to refer to the way that some paintings 'make sense' even though they show us things that could never happen in the real world.

(Apollinaire might have used some of the late paintings by Goya - or Hieronymus Bosch - as examples. Salvador Dali did many excellent surrealist paintings, but only after Apollinaire was already dead).

To explain the idea of Surrealism, Apollinaire pointed out that a wheel does the same thing as a pair of legs (moves from one place to another): but a wheel looks nothing like a pair of legs.

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Apollinaire died fairly young in the Spanish 'Flu epidemic of 1918, but his friend André Breton became fascinated by the idea of Surrealism and wrote two Surrealist Manifestos - explaining how Art could use nonsensical images to convey truths.

A famous example of a surrealist picture in René Magritte's La Chateau des Pyrenées - where a large rock appears to float in mid-air. Magritte later commented that when the viewer realises that rocks do not normally float in mid-air he becomes aware of just how heavy rock is, in a way he might not in a more ordinary painting.

There is much more to Surrealism than this, but it is a good place to start.

(When you go to the link: think what this picture tells us that we might never learn from an ordinary painting).

Answer 4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealist_...

Be careful not too get up there and define what surrealism is. The manifesto was written to define the purpose of the group and explain how the Surrealism movement influenced society. The Surrealists stressed that automatism would reveal the nature of anyone who practiced it.  The movement was born out of a desire for positive action.  They wanted to access the unconscious and inspire interior transformations in the artists and tap into unconscious world which was beyond reality as we know it.

good luck~ tricky subject.