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Surrealism
About Surrealism
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.
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".
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.
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" and The Persistence of Memory can certainly be characterized as such.
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.
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.
