Surrealism and Photomontage PREWORK

Salvador Dali

The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory, 1954

Elephants, 1948

Rene Magritte

Homesickness, 1940

Memory of a Journey, 1955

Surrealism is an abstraction but also has a basis in realism. It is cultivated from the subconscious. Aspects of surrealism include critical paranoia (double take) and incongruous juxtaposition (aligning unlike parts) and levitation ( when it is something that is unlikely to be flying).

Thomas Barbey

Crash Course in Italian, 

This photo is an example of surrealism because it has critical paranoia and aligning juxtaposition. The Grand Canal and waterfall make sense when they are apart, but not when they are together. Therefor this causes the viewer to take a double take.

Leap of Faith

Again, this shows aligning juxtaposition. The photo includes a building and the sky right next to it. The orientation makes this scenario impossible. The diver leaping off the building into the sky is also unlikely, but makes sense on its own. This also shows critical paranoia; it makes the viewer question whats reality and imagination.







Logan Zillmer

This is an example of surrealism because the size of the bowler hat is unrealistic, as well as its placement on top of the building.



This is a surrealistic photo because the cars are flying. The girls in the field and the car as two separate things makes sense, but both together and the placement of the car in the sky makes it more of a dream-like photo with basis of reality.