Sep 161 min read

Le surréalisme ☂️

How far can we dig into the imagination? -

Salut à tou.te.s,

Le surréalisme, mouvement artistique et intellectuel né il y a un siècle, après la Première Guerre mondiale, a révolutionné l’art en explorant l’inconscient et les rêves. Des artistes comme André Breton, Salvador Dalí et René Magritte ont cherché à libérer l’imaginaire des contraintes rationnelles. Comment ce courant a-t-il transformé notre vision de la réalité ?

Surrealism, an artistic and intellectual movement born a century ago, after the First World War, revolutionized art by exploring the unconscious and dreams. Artists such as André Breton, Salvador Dalí and René Magritte sought to free the imagination from rational constraints. How did this movement transform our vision of reality?

Related episodes: Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso

Preparation:

watch this week's episode on surrealism: https://youtu.be/Lr6p4H7ANE4 (Subtitles are available in French and English by clicking on the CC button on the YouTube control bar)
revise your Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives, we might try a "cadavre exquis" together
(optional) watch this 2-part documentary on Arte: Révolutions surréalistes
prepare one or two questions