Surrealism

1. Surrealism

2. AboutSurrealism • 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.

3. 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".

4. 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.

5. 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.”

6. 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.

7. 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.