Surrealist techniques, the Glossary

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1. 82 relations: A Vision, Acrylic paint, Aleatoricism, André Breton, Art, Artist, Bohumil Hrabal, Bomb (magazine), Candle, Carromancy, Chalk, Charcoal, Chocolate, Collage, Consciousness, Consequences (game), Creativity techniques, Cut-up technique, David Hare (artist), Divination, Dolfi Trost, Drawing, Dream, Duke University Press, Echo, Echo (mythology), Edinburgh University Press, Emulsion, Entoptic phenomenon, Exquisite corpse, French language, Fumage, Gherasim Luca, Grattage, Guillaume Apollinaire, I Served the King of England, Image, Ink, Ithell Colquhoun, Jimmy Ernst, Joan Miró, Johns Hopkins University, Kerosene lamp, Les Champs magnétiques, Literature, Marcel Mariën, Max Ernst, Metal, Negative (photography), Newspaper, ... Expand index (32 more) »

2. Surrealist works

A Vision

A Vision: An Explanation of Life Founded upon the Writings of Giraldus and upon Certain Doctrines Attributed to Kusta Ben Luka, privately published in 1925, is a book-length study of various philosophical, historical, astrological, and poetic topics by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats.

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Acrylic paint

Acrylic paint is a fast-drying paint made of pigment suspended in acrylic polymer emulsion and plasticizers, silicone oils, defoamers, stabilizers, or metal soaps.

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Aleatoricism

Aleatoricism or aleatorism, the noun associated with the adjectival aleatory and aleatoric, is a term popularised by the musical composer Pierre Boulez, but also Witold Lutosławski and Franco Evangelisti, for compositions resulting from "actions made by chance", with its etymology deriving from alea, Latin for "dice".

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André Breton

André Robert Breton (19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer and poet, the co-founder, leader, and principal theorist of surrealism.

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Art

Art is a diverse range of human activity and its resulting product that involves creative or imaginative talent generally expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.

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Artist

An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art.

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Bohumil Hrabal

Bohumil Hrabal (28 March 1914 – 3 February 1997) was a Czech writer, often named among the best Czech writers of the 20th century.

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Bomb (magazine)

Bomb (stylized in all caps as BOMB) is an American arts magazine edited by artists and writers, published quarterly in print and daily online.

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Candle

A candle is an ignitable wick embedded in wax, or another flammable solid substance such as tallow, that provides light, and in some cases, a fragrance.

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Carromancy

Carromancy (from Greek κηρός, 'wax', and μαντεία, 'divination'), otherwise known as ceromancy, is a form of divination involving wax.

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Chalk

Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock.

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Charcoal

Charcoal is a lightweight black carbon residue produced by strongly heating wood (or other animal and plant materials) in minimal oxygen to remove all water and volatile constituents.

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Chocolate

Chocolate or cocoa is a food made from roasted and ground cocoa seed kernels that is available as a liquid, solid, or paste, either on its own or as a flavoring agent in other foods.

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Collage

Collage (from the coller, "to glue" or "to stick together") is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.

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Consciousness

Consciousness, at its simplest, is awareness of internal and external existence.

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Consequences (game)

Consequences is an old parlour game in a similar vein to the Surrealist game exquisite corpse and Mad Libs.

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Creativity techniques

Creativity techniques are methods that encourage creative actions, whether in the arts or sciences.

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Cut-up technique

The cut-up technique (or découpé in French) is an aleatory literary technique in which a written text is cut up and rearranged to create a new text.

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David Hare (artist)

David Hare (March 10, 1917 – December 21, 1992) was an American artist, associated with the Surrealist movement.

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Divination

Divination is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of an occultic ritual or practice.

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Dolfi Trost

Dolfi or Dolphi Trost (1916 in Brăila – 1966 in Chicago, Illinois) was a Romanian surrealist poet, artist, and theorist, and the instigator of entopic graphomania.

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Drawing

Drawing is a visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface.

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Dream

A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.

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Duke University Press

Duke University Press is an academic publisher and university press affiliated with Duke University.

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Echo

In audio signal processing and acoustics, an echo is a reflection of sound that arrives at the listener with a delay after the direct sound.

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Echo (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Echo (Ἠχώ, Ēkhō, "echo", from ἦχος (ēchos), "sound") was an Oread who resided on Mount Cithaeron.

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Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh University Press is a scholarly publisher of academic books and journals, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Emulsion

An emulsion is a mixture of two or more liquids that are normally immiscible (unmixable or unblendable) owing to liquid-liquid phase separation.

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Entoptic phenomenon

Entoptic phenomena are visual effects whose source is within the human eye itself.

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Exquisite corpse

Exquisite corpse (from the original French term, literally exquisite cadaver) is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Fumage

Fumage is a surrealist art technique popularized by Wolfgang Paalen in which impressions are made by the smoke of a candle or kerosene lamp on a piece of paper or canvas.

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Gherasim Luca

Gherasim Luca (23 July 1913 – 9 February 1994) was a Romanian surrealist theorist and poet.

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Grattage

Grattage (literally "scratching", "scraping") is a technique in surrealist painting which consists of "scratching" fresh paint with a sharp blade.

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Guillaume Apollinaire

Guillaume Apollinaire (born Kostrowicki; 26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist and art critic of Polish descent.

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I Served the King of England

I Served the King of England (Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále) is a novel by the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal.

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Image

An image is a visual representation.

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Ink

Ink is a gel, sol, or solution that contains at least one colorant, such as a dye or pigment, and is used to color a surface to produce an image, text, or design.

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Ithell Colquhoun

Ithell Colquhoun (9 October 1906 – 11 April 1988) was a British painter, occultist, poet and author.

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Jimmy Ernst

Hans-Ulrich Ernst (June 24, 1920 – February 6, 1984), known as Jimmy Ernst, was an American painter born in Germany.

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Joan Miró

Joan Miró i Ferrà (20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Catalan Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramist.

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Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University (often abbreviated as Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, Johns, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Kerosene lamp

A kerosene lamp (also known as a paraffin lamp in some countries) is a type of lighting device that uses kerosene as a fuel.

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Les Champs magnétiques

Les Champs magnétiques (The Magnetic Fields) is a 1920 book by André Breton and Philippe Soupault. Surrealist techniques and Les Champs magnétiques are surrealist works.

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Literature

Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, plays, and poems.

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Marcel Mariën

Marcel Mariën (29 April 1920 – 19 September 1993) was a Belgian surrealist (later Situationist), poet, essayist, photographer, collagist, and filmmaker.

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Max Ernst

Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German (naturalised American in 1948 and French in 1958) painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet.

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A metal is a material that, when polished or fractured, shows a lustrous appearance, and conducts electricity and heat relatively well.

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Negative (photography)

In photography, a negative is an image, usually on a strip or sheet of transparent plastic film, in which the lightest areas of the photographed subject appear darkest and the darkest areas appear lightest.

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Newspaper

A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Paint

Paint is a material or mixture that, when applied to a solid material and allowed to dry, adds a film-like layer.

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Painting

Painting is a visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support").

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Paper

Paper is a thin sheet material produced by mechanically or chemically processing cellulose fibres derived from wood, rags, grasses, or other vegetable sources in water, draining the water through a fine mesh leaving the fibre evenly distributed on the surface, followed by pressing and drying.

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Philippe Soupault

Philippe Soupault (2 August 1897 – 12 March 1990) was a French writer and poet, novelist, critic, and political activist.

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Phonetics

Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds or, in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign.

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Poetry

Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings.

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Potlatch

A potlatch is a gift-giving feast practiced by Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada and the United States,Harkin, Michael E., 2001, Potlatch in Anthropology, International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, eds., vol 17, pp.

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Rationalism

In philosophy, rationalism is the epistemological view that "regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge" or "any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or justification",Lacey, A.R. (1996), A Dictionary of Philosophy, 1st edition, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976.

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Résumé

A résumé, sometimes spelled resume (or alternatively resumé), is a document created and used by a person to present their background, skills, and accomplishments.

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Remedios Varo

María de los Remedios Alicia Rodriga Varo y Uranga (known as Remedios Varo, 16 December 1908 – 8 October 1963) was a Spanish surrealist painter working in Spain, France, and Mexico.

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Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.

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Rubbing (art)

A rubbing (frottage) is a reproduction of the texture of a surface created by placing a piece of paper or similar material over the subject and then rubbing the paper with something to deposit marks, most commonly charcoal or pencil but also various forms of blotted and rolled ink, chalk, wax, and many other substances.

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Salvador Dalí

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol (11 May 190423 January 1989), known as Salvador Dalí, was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in his work.

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Sculpture

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.

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Smoke

Smoke is a suspension of airborne particulates and gases emitted when a material undergoes combustion or pyrolysis, together with the quantity of air that is entrained or otherwise mixed into the mass.

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Spray painting

Spray painting is a painting technique in which a device sprays coating material (paint, ink, varnish, etc.) through the air onto a surface.

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Stanza

In poetry, a stanza (from Italian stanza) is a group of lines within a poem, usually set off from others by a blank line or indentation.

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Stencil

Stencilling produces an image or pattern on a surface by applying pigment to a surface through an intermediate object, with designed holes in the intermediate object.

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Surautomatism

Surautomatism is any theory or act in practice of surrealist creative production taking, or purporting to take, automatism to its most absurd limits.

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Surrealism

Surrealism is an art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike scenes and ideas.

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Surrealist automatism

Surrealist automatism is a method of art-making in which the artist suppresses conscious control over the making process, allowing the unconscious mind to have great sway.

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Title

A title is one or more words used before or after a person's name, in certain contexts.

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Unconscious mind

In psychoanalysis and other psychological theories, the unconscious mind (or the unconscious) is the part of the psyche that is not available to introspection.

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Visual arts

The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, comics, design, crafts, and architecture.

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Voronoi diagram

In mathematics, a Voronoi diagram is a partition of a plane into regions close to each of a given set of objects.

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W. B. Yeats

William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.

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Water

Water is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula.

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Wax

Waxes are a diverse class of organic compounds that are lipophilic, malleable solids near ambient temperatures.

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White chocolate

White chocolate is a confectionery typically made of sugar, milk, and cocoa butter, but no cocoa solids.

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William T. Williams

Williams is the first African American artist to be featured in The Janson History Of Art.

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Wolfgang Paalen

Wolfgang Robert Paalen (July 22, 1905 in Vienna, Austria – September 24, 1959 in Taxco, Mexico) was an Austrian-Mexican painter, sculptor, and art philosopher.

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See also

Surrealist works

• Anthology of Black Humor
• Champagne Standard Lamps
• Codex Seraphinianus
• Dalí Atomicus
• Disavowals or Cancelled Confessions
• Dona i Ocell
• Helhesten
• How Doth the Little Crocodile (Carrington)
• Las Pozas
• Le Déjeuner en fourrure
• Les Champs magnétiques
• Lobster Telephone
• Mae West Lips Sofa
• Meme Man
• Mind Fields
• Nieuw Amsterdam (Salvador Dali)
• Nuage articulé
• Personnages Oiseaux
• Pinky & Pepper Forever
• Rainy Taxi
• Surrealist techniques
• The Solar Anus
• Vision dans le cristal. Oniromancie obsessionelle. Et neuf graphomanies entoptiques.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealist_techniques

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