Surrealism: Salvador Dali

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Salvador Dali, "Geopoliticus, Child Watching the Birth of a New Man"

You answer in a comment on this blog the following questions:

Remember Surrealism is:

a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.

Description:
1. What is the first word that comes to mind when you first view this painting?
2. How would you describe it?

3. Is there anything that stand out to you?

Analysis:
4. What kind of painting is this?  Is it a landscape, portrait, or?
5. Is it realistic, imaginary, or?
6. How is line and shape used?

Interpretation:
7. What is the message behind this work?  How does it speak to you? 
8. Explain the four components of Surrealism (they are listed below).

Dream like state of mind: a feeling of euphoria a sense of the surreal, out of reality.

Distortion: the manipulation of images or objects.

Juxtaposition or displacement: items out of place, items together that don’t belong.

Fetish: an obsession with something, an idea or object.

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