Surrealism

Surrealism is...

• artwork that depicts dream-like scenes and, or situations that would be bizarre or impossible in real life.

• artwork that shows realistic paitnings and sculptures of people and places.

• artwork that depicts nature in a way that is realistic.

Identify the artist of this piece, "The Future of Statues"

• Rene Margritte

• Salvador Dali

• Claude Monet

• Vincent Van Gogh

Salvador Dali made paintings, sculptures and films about...

• dreams he had

• his family

• Italy

• France

Surrealist artists were also influenced by a famous psychoanalyst called...

• Sigmund Freud

• Rene Margritte

• Vincent Van Gogh

• Leonardo Da Davinci

A psychoanalyst is a doctor who studies...

• the human mind and tries to understand it.

• the occurances in nature and why they happen.

• relationships between people and nature.

Salvador Dali was born in 1904 in Figueres, Spain which is near the Pyrenees Mountains. Surrounded by this landscape as he was growing up, Dali often included...

• the scenery he saw as a boy.

• his family from Spain

• people in a lake

• clocks that tell the time.

Who is this artist?

• Savador Dali

• Rene Margritte

• Vincent Van Gogh

• Leonardo Da Vinci

Which of the following is NOT a surreal piece by Salvador Dali?

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Which of the following surreal artists studied at art school in Brussels, Belgium?

• Rene Margritte

• Vicent Vangogh

• Salvador Dali

• Henri Matisse

The sort of things Rene Margritte painted include:

Choose THREE

• Familiar objects-such as piples, apples, eggs, birds, clocks, or candles.

• Men in suits and bowler hats

• Blue skies with clouds and views of the sea.

• Forests and animals