surrealism. about surrealism surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s. it is...
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Surrealism
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About Surrealism
Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s.
It is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members.
Today surrealism is no longer a movement but a type of art that a lot of artists like to use to express them selves, in this digital era surrealism is one of the top digital art styles.
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André Breton (1896-1966)
The founder of Surrealism.
He was French writer and poet.
He wrote Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du surréalisme) in 1924, which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism".
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Salvador Dalí (1904-89)He was Catalan-Spanish surrealist painter born in Catalonia, Spain.
He combined a hyperrealist style with dream-like, sexualized subject matter.
His collaborations with Hollywood and commercial ventures, alongside his notoriously dramatic personality, earned him scorn from some Surrealist colleagues.
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Salvador Dalí ‘s painting
Meditative Rose (1958) is something of an enigma coming from a painter whose works are primarily the stuff of dream and nightmare.
The Persistence of Memory (1931), he refer as "hand-painted dream photographs" and The Persistence of Memory can certainly be characterized as such.
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Yves Tanguy
A French painter and one of the key figures of French Surrealism in the early 20th century.
Having never received any formal training, Tanguy was a self-taught painter who became best known for his highly imaginative landscapes and detailed precision.
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Indefinite Divisibility (1942)
The blue void on the horizon represents uncertainty, but a calmness in that the artist is not worried about what lays beyond this void. The bright orange of some items represents happiness, and passion.