The Surrealism movement.

SURREALISM FACTS:
• Began around the early 1920’s
• Soon it was affecting painting, literature and films
• It works on the element of surprise,
• Surrealism developed out of the Dada** activities of World War I and the most important center of the movement was Paris.
• From the 1920s on, the movement spread around the globe, eventually affecting the visual arts, literature, film, and music.

** WHAT IS DADA?
Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manifestoes, art theory—theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works. Its purpose was to ridicule what its participants considered to be the meaninglessness of the modern world. In addition to being anti-war, dada was also anti-bourgeois and anarchistic in nature.

LATER SURREAL FILMS: (director first then film in brackets)
• Kenneth Anger (Fireworks and Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome)
• Darren Aronofsky (π)
• Carlos Atanes (CODEX ATANICUS, FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions')
• Luis Buñuel (The Phantom of Liberty and The Exterminating Angel)
• Donald Cammell (Wild Side)
• Víctor Erice (The Spirit of the Beehive)
• Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep)
• Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Delicatessen and La Cité des enfants perdus)
• David Lynch (Eraserhead and Blue Velvet)
• Peter Greenaway (Drowning by Numbers)
• Nicolas Roeg (Performance and Walkabout)
• Lars von Trier (The Kingdom)


SURREAL ART:




SURREAL art is all about putting ordinary and ordinary together to make Extraordinary.

Dalí and Miró were the most famous surreal artists. Others were Max Ernst, Magritte, Man Ray, Dorothea Carrington, and Dorothea Tanning. For my DVD cover I am doing a piece of surreal art on photo shop, I am going to base it on the work of Rene Magritte.