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| Who was the principal theorist and literary figure who directed the Surrealist movement? |
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| What was an Exquisite Corpse? |
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| a group poem who randomly chose words not knowing what preceeded or followed |
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| In what year did the first Surrealist Manifesto appear? |
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| What were the three parts that Freud said made up the psyche? |
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| According to Freud, why do dreams occur? |
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| because elements of the unconcious are dangerous to the health of the psyche |
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| In De Chirico's work, what did Stimmung describe? |
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| What movement did De Chirico start with Carlo Carrà? |
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| What term is used to describe the type of Surrealism in which the image acts as a kind of mental photograph? |
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| What medium did Ernst use to make his book The Hundred Headless Woman? |
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| How was a frottage image made? |
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| by rubbing black lead onto sheets of paper onto objects |
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| What was the name of Ernst's alter ego? |
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| Lop-lop, the bird superior |
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| When Ernst came to the United States during WWII, in what state did he spend most of his time? |
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| What technique used by Ernst was invented by the Spanish Surrealist Oscar Dominguez? |
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| What Surrealist occasionally painted his works upside down so that he could surprise himself? |
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| Where did Tanguy get the title Mama, Papa is Wounded? |
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| amoung records of statements made by mental patients |
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| To what country did Tanguy move to avoid the Nazi occupation of France? |
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| Why was Dalí expelled from the San Fernando Academy? |
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| he painted a pair of scales instead of a Gothic Virgin |
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| Whose work did Dalí see illustrated in the magazine Valori Plastici? |
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| With whom did Dalí collaborate on the film Un Chien Andalou? |
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| In Un Chien Andalou what scene suggests the canceling out of ordinary vision? |
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| an eyeball being sliced by a razorblade |
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| What animals are in the pianos in Un Chien Andalou? |
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| What did Dalí call his method of accessing the unconscious as if in a voluntary hallucination? |
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| paranoiac - critical method |
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| What altarpiece by Hieronymus Bosch contained an abstract head that inspired the sleeping figure in Dalí's The Persistence of Memory? |
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| Garden of Earthly Delights |
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| What did Dalí do to make himself "classic" as a painter? |
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| imitate the artists of high renaisance |
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| According to Magritte, what do people who look for symbolic meanings in paintings fail to grasp? |
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| the inherent poetry and mystery of the image |
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| What (in translation) is the famous caption written on Magritte's The Treason of Images? |
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| the image is neither identical with the word 'pipe' nor with an actual pipe |
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| Why didn’t Magritte believe in chance? |
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| he believed we don't decide anything |
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| According to Magritte, what was the connection between his art and his life? |
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| life obliges him to do something, so he paints |
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| What was the nationality of Magritte and Delvaux? |
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| Where did Delvaux observe ancient ruins? |
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| What do the women in Delvaux's works represent? |
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| unattainable women in the dreams of men |
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| What term is used to describe Surrealist art that relies on psychic automatism rather than representational imagery? |
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| In what series did Masson paint images of fish and birds in conflict? |
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| What did Masson put in the glue that he dripped on some of his paintings? |
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| Where did Masson go during WWII? |
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What painter's primitivism became a source of inspiration for Miró? |
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| What painting did Miró begin on his family's property in Catalonia but finish in Paris? |
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| Whom did Breton call "the most Surrealist of us all"? |
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| What historical event influenced Miró's "savage style"? |
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| In what medium did José Llorens Artigas help Miró to make work? |
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| What was Giacometti's nationality? |
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| What was the name of Giacometti's brother who was a frequent subject of his work? |
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| What did Giacometti feel that he had to do in order to produce a "Vision of reality"? |
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| eliminate the solid planar elements of traditional sculpture |
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| What work by Giacometti was described by Breton as "the emanation of the desire to love and to be loved in search of its true human object and in its sorrowful ignorance." |
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| What two incidents led Kahlo physically crippled? |
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| polio and was speared through the abdomen by a steel handrail |
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| Who was Kahlo's artist-husband? |
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| With what Russian leftist did kahlo have an affair? |
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| What are Mexican folk retablos? |
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| depictions of Saints painted on sheets of tin |
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| What region of volcanic rock did Kahlo depict in many of her paintings? |
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| What is an ex-voto image? |
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| image on tin to commemorate the miraculous saving of an individual by the intervention of a saint |
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| Why did Breton feel "surprise and joy" when seeing Kahlo's works? |
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| it blossomed into pure surreality |
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