Surrealism
(c.1924-1939)
RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967)
'Time Transfixed', 1938 (oil on canvas)
'Time Transfixed', 1938 (oil on canvas)
Surrealism was the positive response to
Dada's negativity. Its aim, as outlined in the First Surrealist
Manifesto of 1924, was to liberate the artist's imagination by tapping
into the unconscious mind to discover a 'superior' reality - a
'sur-reality'. To achieve this the Surrealists drew upon the images of
dreams, the effects of combining disassociated images, and the
technique of 'pure psychic automatism', a spontaneous form of drawing
without the conscious control of the mind.
The look of Surrealist art was inspired by the irrational juxtaposition of images in Dada collages, the metaphysical art of Giorgio de Chirico, and both 'primitive' and 'outsider' art.
The most influential of the Surrealist artists were Max Ernst, Joan Miró, Salvador Dali and René Magritte. The movement broke up at the outbreak of war in 1939 when several of the Surrealists left Europe for New York where they had a formative influence on the development of Abstract Expressionism.
source http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/timelines/modern_art_timeline.htm
The look of Surrealist art was inspired by the irrational juxtaposition of images in Dada collages, the metaphysical art of Giorgio de Chirico, and both 'primitive' and 'outsider' art.
The most influential of the Surrealist artists were Max Ernst, Joan Miró, Salvador Dali and René Magritte. The movement broke up at the outbreak of war in 1939 when several of the Surrealists left Europe for New York where they had a formative influence on the development of Abstract Expressionism.
source http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/timelines/modern_art_timeline.htm
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