The Surrealism movement
"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings"-Dali
By : Kirsten Masten
Dates: 1924-1940,s
This movement was mainly to create visual art and writing. Most artist created their inner selves, their nightmares, and their mental illness through painting them. They tried to show the power of the unconscious mind.
Facts about Surrealism
2: The Surrealist usually did films as well
3:Surrealism was usually thought of as a literal movement
Examples of Surrealism
Salvador Dali
The Persistence of time
"Time is the theme here, from the melting watches to the decay implied by the swarming ants. Mastering what he called “the usual paralyzing tricks of eye-fooling,” Dalí painted this work with “the most imperialist fury of precision,” but only, he said, “to systematize confusion and thus to help discredit completely the world of reality.”
vladimir kush
The artist is trying to say that the butterfly on top of the axe is no longer going to have a place to rest and the axe is representing that more trees will be cut down for development.
Rene Magritte
The artist said " Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present."
Main People/locations
Max Ernst
Andre Brenton
The movement began in Europe after ww1