04+Surrealism


 * Surrealism c. 1924 – c. 1939 **
 * Surrealism** means ‘beyond or above realism’ and was the name given to an art movement that originated in France in 1924. Writer Andre Breton initiated the movement and the major visual artists involved were: Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Giorgio de Chirico, Joan Miro, Yves Tanguy and Max Ernst.

During the 1920’s the western world became very interested in the developing fields of psychology and psychoanalysis. Out of this fascination with the unconscious mind, a group of young artists developed Surrealism to challenge the accepted ideals of reality. Their aim was to take the spectators beyond the normal world and into the realm of dreams, fantasies and repressed feelings.

The Surrealist style of painting usually depicted single elements/objects extremely realistically. It was just the shock associations that made this art so far removed from reality i.e. trains coming out of fire places, giraffes on fire, melting clocks and strange landscapes etc. Their use of frequent distortion of forms and colours, curious objects and surroundings as well as strange juxtapositions all combined to provoke often-disturbing feelings in the viewer. They also sometimes used abstraction and childlikeness.

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