ADDED: Understanding Surrealist Art
(Room Lanier Grand Ballroom K)
26 Aug 21
6:00 PM
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7:15 PM
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Speaker (Non-Member)
Beginning primarily as a literary phenomenon, surrealism ultimately became the most influential artistic movement of the 20th century. Intimately affecting the development of abstract expressionism, pop art, magic realism and advertising, surrealism has achieved a level of integration into the modern collective consciousness that is historically unprecedented. Utilizing an extensive slide presentation, Christopher Kilgore will present a survey of surrealist art and illuminate the historical, political, philosophical and psychological context in which it developed, orienting surrealism wihin the previling Modernist cultural context. Numerous surrealist artworks will be analyzed in terms of their stylistic precedents, technical approaches, and thematic elements. Chris will also discuss many of surrealism's greatest artists and the way in which their personalities, relationships, synergies and conflicts influenced the movement's evolution.