The Surrealist art movement began in the mid-1920s in France and had evolved out of an earlier movement called Dadaism from Switzerland. Surrealism reached its peak in the 1930s. Surrealist artwork showed and expressed the subconscious areas of the mind. The art didn’t make sense to anyone as it was usually trying to depict a dream or random thoughts. The Surrealist movement was started by a poet named Andre Breton. The word "surrealism" means "above realism". Surrealists believed that the subconscious mind, such as dreams, held the secret to truth. The movement had an impact on film, poetry, music, and art. Surrealist paintings are often a mixture of strange objects and things that are normal out of place or are distorted.
Inspired by Sigmund Freud's writings, Surrealist artists believed that Freud's theories on dreams, ego, superego and the id opened doors to the authentic self and a more authentic reality. The artwork has emphasis on the mysterious ways of life in an effort to make
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Salvador Dali is the most famous one I know. He is considered to be the greatest of the Surrealist painters. He was a Spanish artist who embraced the idea and art of Surrealism. The painting “The Persistence of Memory” by Salvador Dali, the most famous of all the Surrealist paintings, is known for the melting watches. The painting gives you sense with the melting clocks that time is irrelevant.
Another famous artist is Giorgio de Chirico. The famous painting “The song of Love” is one of the earliest examples of Surrealist art. It was painted in 1914, before the movement technically began. It combines a number of unrelated objects like a green ball, giant rubber glove, and the head of a Greek statue. He was trying to explain his feelings for the ridiculousness of World War I through this painting. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the