The Surrealist art movement is full of dream images, inspired by the writings of the spiritual godfather of the movement, psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Artist Frida Kahlo exhibited with the Surrealists but insisted that her work did not belong inside of their classification.
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Discuss your understanding of the Surrealist movement (from online, scholarly sources such as museum websites and JSTOR articles, placing the information into your own words) and Kahlo’s reluctance to attach her work to the style. Then identify two of her artworks and make your case: is her work Surrealist (in the way that Surrealism is described and other Surrealist artwork looks) or not? Compare the two Kahlo works that you chose with the work of one other Surrealist artist, and compare and contrast the artworks. Are there similarities that you can use to prove or disprove your point?
Should you listen to what the actual artist says about their work (Kahlo states that she is not a Surrealist), or can you make a persuasive case to say that she actually could be considered as (for a while) a Surrealist artist?
Write at least 6 paragraphs (6-7 sentences per paragraph) in Times New Roman, 12 point, black, double-spaced. Place your scholarly sources as links at the bottom of your assignment.
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Always be sure to meet (and exceed) my minimum writing requirement. Always have the specified number of paragraphs in distinct paragraphs, not as one big text with no breaks. Remember, just meeting the writing minimum is a C; it’s average. Try to go beyond it!
Do not copy and paste any information directly into your paper (it’s plagiarism and results in a zero grade with no chance to re-do), but rather put things into your own words, then cite the source (copy and paste the URL address) at the bottom of your paper.
Don’t quote scholars too much in your work; I’d rather hear your take on what they said. Say: “According to whom?” and then reiterate what they said in your own words. After that, you can cite the source at the bottom of your paper (copy and paste the URL address).
List the artist, the date and the year of an artwork’s creation first.
Artwork titles, as well as movie titles and names of TV shows, appear in italics, not quotation marks, like so:
Artwork:
Jacques Louis David, Oath of the Horatii (1784)
Movie:
Steven Spielberg, Jaws (1975)
TV show (give the date range of how long it aired originally):
Joss Whedon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003)
You always date the artwork (or TV show or film that you are mentioning) the first time you talk about it to orient the reader, and then afterward you can just say Jaws or Oath of the Horatii, but it still remains in italics throughout your paper.
