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| | [[File:Dalí The Christ of St. John of the Cross.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Dali's The Christ of St. John of the Cross]] | | [[File:Dalí The Christ of St. John of the Cross.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Dali's The Christ of St. John of the Cross]] |
| − | '''Surrealism''' was an artistic movement that began in the early-1920. It was consisting of dreamlike paintings. Surrealism was based on [[Sigmund Freud|Freudian]] philosophies of dream analysis. Surrealism is a word [[Guillaume Apollinaire]] is credited for coining. | + | '''Surrealism''' was an artistic movement that began in the early-1920, as a reaction against the rationalism that resulted in the horrors of [[World War I]]. Poet Andrew Bretun published "The Surrealistic Manifesto" in 1924 to spearhead this movement , which strived for "an absolute reality, a surreality." The coining of the term Surrealism is credited to [[Guillaume Apollinaire]]. |
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| | Surrealist artists aimed to expose psychological truth and as a result created abstract images in order to evoke empathy from the viewer. Highly individualized, the movement relied heavily on the element of the unexpected, borrowed from various Dadaist techniques and eventually came to represent the alienation many experienced in the wake of a war stricken world. [http://all-that-is-interesting.com/most-iconic-surrealist-paintings] | | Surrealist artists aimed to expose psychological truth and as a result created abstract images in order to evoke empathy from the viewer. Highly individualized, the movement relied heavily on the element of the unexpected, borrowed from various Dadaist techniques and eventually came to represent the alienation many experienced in the wake of a war stricken world. [http://all-that-is-interesting.com/most-iconic-surrealist-paintings] |
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| | == Famous Surrealists == | | == Famous Surrealists == |
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| | [[Image:Dali-Memory.jpg|300px|thumb|''The Persistence Of Memory'' by [[Salvador Dali]].]] | | [[Image:Dali-Memory.jpg|300px|thumb|''The Persistence Of Memory'' by [[Salvador Dali]].]] |
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| | The most famous surrealist artist was [[Salvador Dali]], who is credited with the surrealist painting ''The Persistence Of Memory''. Other famous surrealists were [[Max Ernst]], Remedios Varo (1908–1963) and [[Magritte|René Magritte]]. Dali remained a devoted surrealist throughout his entire life, after dabbling and and then rejecting both [[anarchism]] and [[communism]] as a youth. | | The most famous surrealist artist was [[Salvador Dali]], who is credited with the surrealist painting ''The Persistence Of Memory''. Other famous surrealists were [[Max Ernst]], Remedios Varo (1908–1963) and [[Magritte|René Magritte]]. Dali remained a devoted surrealist throughout his entire life, after dabbling and and then rejecting both [[anarchism]] and [[communism]] as a youth. |
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| | In Mexico, [[Remedios Varo]] with [[Leonora Carrington]] developed an illusionistic Surrealism. | | In Mexico, [[Remedios Varo]] with [[Leonora Carrington]] developed an illusionistic Surrealism. |
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| | + | ==Sigmund Freud== |
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| | + | The overpromoted [[liberal]] [[Sigmund Freud]] is given too much credit for the surrealist movement, in which adherents felt that the rational mind repressed the immense power of the imagination. |
| | == See also == | | == See also == |
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