1. Review your notes on each of the artists presented in student reports
for the following information:
• country of origin
• when and how the artists was affiliated with Surrealism; medium (or
media) in which the artist worked
• techniques the artist invented
• a few good words to describe the artist's work (you might find some
on your vocabulary sheets)
2. Commit the slide list to memory. Consider the works on that list as you prepare study assignment #1 (above). It would be a good idea to make a card or paper for each of the works, and note down ideas pertaining to each as you go through the remainder of these assignments.
3. Look again at question #2 on your worksheet for 2/8 (concerning "difference"). Consider what you know now about Surrealism. How would you add to your previous answers concerning the ways in which Surrealism is concerned with difference? What works on the slide list are the best examples of this concern? Why?
4. I will list several "thinkers" below. You should make a separate
card or paper for each of them, and on that card or paper write the primary
"ideas" you would associate with each. If you don't understand these
ideas, it would be good to form a study group with other students in the
class before the exam.
• Breton
• Freud
• Benjamin
• Bataille
• Dali
• Marx (?)
(The first two should have lots of ideas attached to them)
5. Link the ideas you've noted down in assignment #4 to the works on the slide sheet (best to put these on the cards you made for each slide).
6. Of the list of "thinkers" in assignment #4, whose ideas do you find the most congenial or convincing? If you were an avant-garde artist in the 1920s or 1930s, whose ideas might you have followed? The purpose of this question is to allow you to see the positive and negative aspects of the theories of these "thinkers."
7. At this point in the course, which media do you think were
the best suited for Surrealism? Explain your answer clearly to your
self and consider how the works on the slide list prove your point.