Surrealism“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it

considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”-Salvador Dali

…what is it?

• Began in the 1920 along side Dadaism as a rebuttal to the war ( WW1)

• Highly influenced by Freud (dreams are unconscious feelings- true feelings)

• Still had art quality to them- using art aesthetics- just the composition and the concepts were very “odd”

Salvador Dali• Most famous of them all• VERY quirky character• Once made a video that was 6 hours of a man

sleeping.• Was on many game shows, and once he was

chewing tacks and someone asked him why he would do that, and he would say “ for the sensation when I stopped”

• Would literally wake up in the middle of the night and “record” his dreams

Dali, “Persistence of Memory” 1931

“Metamorphosis of Narcissus”

Max Ernst “Oepudies”

Rene Marguriette “ Portal of Values”

Miro “Carnival of Harlequin”