Surrealism1924-1950’s
Founded by Andre Breton
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Artists of Surrealism
• Giorgio de Chirico• Max Ernst• Georgia O’Keeffe• Pablo Picasso• Salvador Dali
• Surrealism was mostly a European movement, stemming from Dada, Dada was an artistic and literary movement from 1916 through 1920. Dada was also a cultural movement focused on the rejection of the predominate standards of art through anti-art cultural works. “Dada was the groundwork to abstract art and sound poetry, a starting point for performance art, a prelude to post modernism, an influence on pop art, a celebration of anti-art to be later embraced for anarcho-political uses in the 1960’s and the movement that lay the foundation for surrealism.”-Marc Lowenthal
• Surrealism is a style in which visual imagery becomes fantastical visuals from the subconscious mind with no intention of making the work logically comprehensible.
• “I insist upon a likeness, a more profound likeness, more real than the real, achieving the surreal. This is the way I understood Surrealism, but the word had been used quite differently.“-Pablo Picasso
Giorgio de Chirico1888-1978
Evil Genius of a King1914-1915
Great Metaphysical Interior1917
Giorgio de ChiricoTwo Figures, One at Left Standing-1934
Max Ernst1891-1976
Woman, Old Man and Flower/Femme1923-24
Landscape with Wheat germ1936
Max ErnstThe Antipope,1941-1942
Georgia O’Keeffe1887-1986
Abstraction White Rose1927 From the Lake
Year unknown
Georgia O’KeeffeJack in the Pulpit IV, 1930
Pablo Picasso1881-1973
Dance1925
Nude and Still Life 1931
Pablo Picasso Crucifixion, 1930
Salvador Dali
Female Nude1925
Venus with Cupids1925
Salvador DaliLugubrious Game, 1929
Websites• Moma.org• Virtualdali.com• Pablo-ruiz-picasso.net• Okeeffemuseum.org• Artcyclopedia.com• Chisnell.com