Surrealism
Surrealism
is a philosophical movement that began in 1920s Paris. It was seen as an escape
from reality and the harshness of war; an opportunity to explore the subconscious
of the human mind. It revolutionised human experience by removing all reason
and control.
The word
surrealism was first used by Guillaume Apollinaire to describe his opera “Les
Mamelles de Tiresias”, written in 1903, performed in 1917. Surrealism is the
idea of combining together two elements that don’t usually go together to
create a strong and startling result for the viewer.
Salvador
Dali is a surrealist artist, with one of his most famous paintings being “The Persistence
of Memory” 1931. This painting, as pictured below, is an excellent example of surrealism
and how art of the movement was without all reason and control. It shows Dali’s
iconic melting clocks on a landscape, the melting clocks represent a lack of logic,
Dali has allowed his subconscious mind to go wild and paint what it desires to.
Andre
Bretton was a psychologist who studied the work of Sigmund Freud and was
inspired to write the Surrealism Manifesto in 1924. Following on from this a
Surrealist Revolution Magazine was released from 1924 until 1929.
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