[[Image:Dali-Memory.jpg|300px|thumb|''The Persistence Of Memory'' by [[Salvador Dali]].]]
Possibly the 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.
In Mexico, [[Remedios Varo]] with [[Leonora Carrington]] developed an illusionistic Surrealism.