Surrealism Quiz

Surrealism means

• Beyond Reality

• Beyond Hope

• Above the clouds

• In your back yard

Surrealism was started in 1924 by French Poet Andre Breton

• True
• False

Surrealist artists were

• Salvador Dali

• Rene Magritte

• Max Ernst

• All of these

Surrealist Artist wanted to tap into the

• conscious mind
• subconscious mind
• forgetful mind
• never mind

Surrealist paintings were realistic but they used juxtaposition, dislocation and transformation to make strange, shocking and dreamlike paintings.

• False
• True

Salvador Dali was a surrealist painter but he never had a mustache

• True
• False

Dislocation is when something is placed where it

• should be

• shouldn't be

• Where is could be

Juxtaposition is when two things are placed side by side that don't normally go together

• True
• False

Which Surrealist operational technique did this artist use?

• Distortion

• animation

• magnification

• multiplication

Rene Magritte repeatedly used a fruit in his work. Which one did he use?

• an watermelon

• a banana

• an apple

• a mango