Surrealism in Metamorphosis
In The Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning as this strange creature, which is an example of surrealism’s dream-like logic.
What is an insect?
The slightly communist surrealist who utilized the biomorphic technique in his art?
Who is Joan Miró?
A strange and anxious feeling created by familiar objects in unfamiliar contexts.
What is the uncanny?
The years that the surrealist movement originated.
What is the late 1910s & 1920s?
This is used to critique modernism in Metamorphosis.
What are contradictions?
The fully communist founder of surrealism who wrote the surrealism manifesto.
Who is André Breton?
Creating art without conscious thought
What is Automatism?
The place that surrealism originated.
What is Paris?
Something the Samsa family does not do when Gregor has his absurd transformation.
What is question it?
This surrealist was fascist and was almost kicked out of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.
Who is Salvador Dali?
A displacement or taking something out of its normal place, resulting in a strange effect.
What is Dislocation?
The word surrealist means..
What is beyond reality?
An aspect of the story that leaves readers unsettled and questioning reality because it’s never logically explained?
What is Gregor's transformation?
This surrealist created the painting Metamorphosis of Narcissus.
Who is Salvador Dalí?
Psychic automatism in its pure state. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.
What is surrealism?
This is what surrealism does in literature and society.
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What is mixes images of life with the unconscious and dreams?
What is highlights the unexpected and the uncanny?
Kafka compares these two things in metamorphosis to emphasize the theme of surrealism.
What is the absurd image of Gregor as a bug and his mundane life?
This surrealist painted the art piece Desert Bug.
Who is Snake Jagger?
a term referring to abstract forms or images that evoke associations with living forms such as plants and the human body.
What is Biomorphic?
This French poet was the founder of surrealism.
Who is André Breton?