Surrealism

Surrealism - 1920's
By Ifrah Ansari
Characteristics

• 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

Art

• 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”

Salvador Dali – The Persistence of Memory

Rene Magritte – The Treachery of Images

Max Ernst – The Elephant Celebs

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