These artists explored subconscious thought in order to bypass restrictions placed on people by social convention.
1922 - 1939
These artists explored subconscious thought in order to bypass restrictions placed on people by social convention.
1922 - 1939
Influenced by French psychology and the work of Sigmund Freud, the Surrealists experimented with practices that allowed them to explore subconscious thought and identity and bypass restrictions placed on people by social convention.
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This furry tea service was a touchstone for Surrealism, but the artist was a victim of her own success.
The Surrealists saw collage as a means to enact what they considered to be the fundamental poetic activity of the unconscious mind.
Photographs were used by the Surrealists to call into question the nature of reality.
Surrealist exhibitions broke down conventional distinctions between art and non-art.
Everything is, in the end, a question of representation (in words or images) in which we choose to believe, or not.
Automatism was a group of techniques used by the Surrealists to facilitate the direct and uncontrolled outpouring of unconscious thought.
The Surrealists were interested in the unconscious as a creative source.
The goal of Surrealist writings and art was to “ruin” the logical, practical, and moral reasoning that structures human understanding of reality.
Surrealism may be familiar from dorm room posters, but what do you really know about this movement?
Identifying as agents of change, the Surrealists were interested in Freudian psychology and social revolution.
Dalí wages war on the rational in this naturalistic landscape populated by strange objects.
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