Surrealism

By Ifrah Ansari Characteristics Art
 * Surrealism - 1920's **
 * Sought reality beyond the material, sensible world and found it in the world of the unconscious through portrayal of fantasies, dreams or nightmares
 * Employing logic to portray the illogical – rejected rationalism
 * Emerged as in the aftermath of WWI
 * Influenced by the theories of Freudian psychology
 * Artists consider work as an expression of the philosophical
 * Salvador Dali – //The Persistence of Memory// – sought to portray the world of dreams by painting recognizable objects in unrecognizable relationships
 * Rene Magritte – //The Treachery of Images// – this is not a pipe, it is an IMAGE of a pipe
 * Max Ernst – //The Elephant Celebs// – influenced by the “mechanical terror of the war experience”







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