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| Vladimir Kush - Surrealist Art |
SURREALISM
The Surrealist movement was founded in Paris by a small group of writers and artists who sought to channel the unconscious as a means to unlock the power of the imagination.
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| The Face of war - Salvador Dali - 1940 |
Disdaining rationalism and literary realism, and powerfully influenced by Sigmund Freud, the Surrealists believed the conscious mind repressed the power of the imagination, weighting it down with taboos.
Influenced also by Karl Marx, they hoped that the psyche had the power to reveal the contradictions in the everyday world and spur on revolution.
Their emphasis on the power of the imagination puts them in the tradition of Romanticism, but unlike their forbears, they believed that revelations could be found on the street and in everyday life. The Surrealist impulse to tap the subconscious mind, and their interests in myth and primitivism, went on to shape the Abstract Expressionists, and they remain influential today.
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| Salvador Dali |
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| Ernst’s painting Epiphany, above, dates from 1940, from the midst of a turbulent and hazardous period in his life. |
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| Max Ernst |
Surrealism has come to be seen as the most influential movement in twentieth century art. Figures like Salvador Dalí and Man Ray not only had an important influence on avant-garde art, but through their commercial work - in fashion photography, advertising and film - they brought the style to a huge popular audience.
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| Igor Morski - Surreal Art |
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| Vladimir Kush - Ilusion |
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| Alberto Pancorbo- Surreal Art |
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| Ben Toldman |
"Contrary to prevalent misdefinitions, surrealism is not an aesthetic doctrine, nor a philosophical system, nor a mere literary or artistic school. It is an unrelenting revolt against a civilization that reduces all human aspirations to market values, religious impostures, universal boredom and misery."
- Franklin Rosemont, from André Breton and the First Principles of Surrealism
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