DAY AND NIGHT BY MAX ERNST



THE COUPLE IN LACE BY MAX ERNST




Carl Jung & the collective Unconscious from the Skeptics Dictionary:

The collective unconscious is a part of the unconscious mind common to all humans. According to Carl Jung, the collective unconscious contains archetypes, universal mental predispositions not grounded in experience. Like Plato's Forms (eidos), the archetypes do not originate in the world of the senses, but exist independently of that world and are known directly by the mind. Unlike Plato, however, Jung believed that the archetypes arise spontaneously in the mind, especially in times of crisis. Just as there are meaningful coincidences, such as the beetle and the scarab dream described in the entry on synchronicity, which open the door to transcendent truths, so too a crisis opens the door of the collective unconscious and lets out an archetype to reveal some deep truth hidden from ordinary consciousness.

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PAINTING OF SURREALISTS REUNION 1922 BY MAX ERNST.






"AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT"
BY RENE MAGRITTE






















" SKULL WITH CIGARETTE "
BY VINCENT VAN GOGH.

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A Surrealist Manifesto:

The Declaration of January 27, 1925

With regard to a false interpretation of our enterprise, stupidly
circulated among the public, We declare as follows to the entire braying
literary, dramatic, philosophical, exegetical and even theological body of
contemporary criticism:

1. We have nothing to do with literature; But we are quite
capable, when necessary, of making use of it like anyone
else,

2. Surrealism is not a new means or expression, or an easier one,
nor even a metaphysic of poetry. It is a means of total liberation of the mind
and of all that resembles it.

3. We are determined to make a Revolution.

4. We have joined the word surrealism to the word revolution
solely to show the disinterested, detached, and even entirely desperate
character of this revolution.

5. We make no claim to change the mores of mankind, but we intend
to show the fragility of thought, and on what shifting foundations, what caverns
we have built our trembling houses.

6. We hurl this formal warning to Society; Beware of your
deviations and faux-pas, we shall not miss a single one.

7. At each turn of its thought, Society will find us
waiting.

8. We are specialists in Revolt. There is no means of action
which we are not capable, when necessary, of employing.

9. We say in particular to the Western world: surrealism exists.
And what is this new ism that is fastened to us? Surrealism is not a poetic
form. It is a cry of the mind turning back on itself, and it is determined to
break apart its fetters, even if it must be by material hammers!
Bureaus de
Recherches Surréalistes,
15, Rue de Grenelle

Signed: Louis Aragon, Antonin Artaud, Jacques Baron, Joë
Bousquet, J.-A. Boiffard, André Breton, Jean Carrive, René Crevel, Robert
Desnos, Paul Élaurd, Max Ernst, et al.
Source: Maurice Nadeau, The History
of Surrealism, Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1989, pp.240-41.



Andre Breton and Marcel Duchamp


“Dada is not at all modern. It is more in the nature of a return to an almost Buddhist religion of indifference. Dada covers things with an artificial gentleness, a snow of butterflies released from the head of a prestidigitator. Dada is immobility and does not comprehend the passions. You will call this a paradox, since Dada is manifested only in violent acts. Yes, the reactions of individuals contaminated by *destruction* are rather violent, but when these reactions are exhausted, annihilated by the Satanic insistence of a continuous and progressive "What for?" what remains, what dominates is *indifference.* But with the same note of conviction I might maintain the contrary.”

And then Breton goes on becoming more & more metaphysical & drifts outwards into the ether as if he were going into a trance channeling some ancient one from “ the seven realms ” as he says:

"Dada is a state of mind. That is why it transforms itself according to races and events.
Dada applies itself to everything, and yet it is nothing, it is the point where the yes and the no and all the opposites meet, not solemnly in the castles of human philosophies, but very simply at street corners, like dogs and grasshoppers.

Like everything in life, Dada is useless.

Dada is without pretension, as life should be.

Perhaps you will understand me better when I tell you that Dada is a virgin microbe that penetrates with the insistence of air into all the spaces that reason has not been able to fill with words or conventions. ”

But then Breton leaves the Dadaist movement & creates the Surrealist movement as Breton states his case:

"Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the road."



PORTRAIT OF SURREALIST ANDRE BRETON (1896-1966)
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EXQUISITE CORPSE BY ANDRE BRETON & OTHER DADAIST
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MARCEL DUCHAMPS(1887-1968) LARGE GLASS PIECE "THE BRIDE STRIPPED BARE BY HER BACHELORS EVEN"
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"The Large Glass has been called a love machine, but it is actually a machine of suffering. Its upper and lower realms are separated from each other forever by a horizon designated as the "bride's clothes". The bride is hanging, perhaps from a rope, in an isolated cage, or crucified. The bachelors remain below, left only with the possibility of churning, agonized masturbation. "
see: wwar.com/masters/d/duchamp-marcel
Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968)


MARCEL DUCHAMP'S(1887-1968) READY MADE "THE FOUNTAIN"
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Duchamp defended the piece in the magazine The Blind Man, (which he edited), with these words:
"Whether Mr. Mutt with his own hands made the fountain or not has no importance. He chose. He took an ordinary article of life, placed it so that its useful significance disappeared under a new title and point of view ...[creating] a new thought for that object." When the "morality" of such an object was questioned he responded, "It is a fixture that you see every day in plumbers' show windows... The only works of art America has given [us] are her plumbing and her bridges."

AND HERE ARE MORE Gleanings from the net on Andre Breton & DADA & Surrealism:

André Breton, 1896-1966: French poet and critic, a leader of the surrealist movement. He...studied medicine, and worked in psychiatric wards in World War I. Later, as a writer in Paris, he was a pioneer in the antirationalist movements in art and literature known as Dadaism and surrealism, which developed out of the general disillusionment with tradition that marked the post-World War I era. Breton's study of the works of Sigmund Freud and his experiments with automatic writing influenced his initial formulation of surrealist theory. He expressed his views in Literature, the leading surrealist periodical, which he helped found and edited for many years, and in three surrealist manifestos (1924, 1930, 1942). His best creative work is considered the novel Nadja (1928), based partly on his own experiences. His poetry, in Selected Poems (1948; trans. 1969), reflects the influence of the poets Paul Valery and Arthur Rimbaud.



UBU ROI BY MAX ERNST
OR OUR NOBLE LEADER ?
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SPECTACULAR WAR BY MAX ERNST OR LEADERS &
THEIR PEOPLE GONE MAD
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ASSASSINS BY
RENE MAGRITTE
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The Virgin Spanking Jesus

Children Menaced by a Nightingale by Rene Magritte

Elephant Celebes by Max Ernst

Tilled Field by Joan Miro (1893-1983)

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