Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings.
Giorgio de Chirico's The Red Tower (La Tour Rouge) (1913), Guggenheim Museum
Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur; however, many Surrealist artists and writers regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost, with the works being an artefact. Leader André Breton was explicit in his assertion that Surrealism was above all a revolutionary movement.
Surrealism developed out of the Dada activities during World War I and the most important center of the movement was Paris. From the 1920s onward, the movement spread around the globe, eventually affecting the visual arts, literature, film, and music of many countries and languages, as well as political thought and practice, philosophy, and social theory.
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), known as Salvador Dalí, was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Spain.
The Persistence of Memory
Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.
Artists: Eileen Agar, Jean Arp , Antonin Artaud, Salvador Dalí, Paul Delvaux , Robert Desnos.
Surrealism is a period in art history when artists create dreamlike paintings filled with mysterious objects or familiar objects that have been oddly changed in ways that you would not see in reality.
ReplyDeleteSurrealism is a style of art where objects are realistically painted (they look real with light shadows, and details) but the way they are arranged or the way their shape is altered makes them look dreamlike, and therefore, beyond real.
Surrealist objects are painted in ways that look real but have been oddly changed.
In "The Red Model" by: René Margritte there is a pair of boots that has been oddly changed into feet but still look like boots!
In Salvador Dali's painting "The Persistence of Memory" there are melting clocks and a clock with ants coming out of it. The clocks look real but they are melting and clocks usually are not melting.
Mysterious objects in paintings are objects that still look the same just in a weird way. René Magritte’s painting "Not to be Reproduced" is an example of a painting with mysterious objects. There are two reflections in a mirror the person and the book. The book's reflection is correct, but the person's reflection is of the back of his head instead of his face.
Rene Magrittes painting "Son of Man" is another example of a surrealist painting with mysterious objects. There is a guy stiff with an apple on his face.