Surrealism
| A movement in literature and the visual arts that developed in the mid - 1920s and remained strong until the mid-1940s, growing out of Dada and automatism. Based upon revealing the unconscious mind in dream images, the irrational, and the fantastic, Surrealism took two directions: representational and abstract. Dali's and Magritte's paintings, with their uses of impossible combinations of objects depicted in realistic detail, typify representational Surrealism. Miro's paintings, with their use of abstract and fantastic shapes and vaguely defined creatures, are typical of abstract Surrealism. | |||
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Salvador Dali's painting The Persistence of Memory (1931) ranks as one of the most famous paintings of the 20th century. A surrealist, Dali referred to his work as "hand-painted dream photographs," and claimed that his imagery often came directly from his own dreams. The strange form in this painting's foreground, however, is based on an image from Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights (about 1505-1510). |
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