Surrealism is a cultural movement began in the early 1920s, which developed out of the Dada activities during World War I. The most important center of the movement was Paris. It is best known as the movement for visual artworks and literiture.Surrealism was initially a literary movement, where writers and poets focused on the expression of subconscious mind. They wanted to freely express subconscious thought through surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur.
Leader André Breton was
explicit in his assertion that Surrealism was above all a revolutionary
movement.From the 1920s
onward, the movement spread around the world, eventually affecting the visual
arts, film, and music of many countries and languages, as well as
political thought and practice, philosophy, and social theory.In the 1930s, surrealism become more visible to the public at large. A Surrealist group developed in Britain. Their 1936 London International Surrealist Exhibition was a high water mark of the period and became the model for international exhibitions. Dalí and Magritte created the most widely recognized images of the movement. Dalí joined the group in 1929, and participated in the rapid establishment of the visual style between 1930 and 1935.Surrealism as a visual movement had found a method: to expose psychological truth by stripping ordinary objects of their normal significance, in order to create a compelling image that was beyond ordinary formal organization, in order to evoke empathy from the viewer.
The characteristics of
this style—a combination of the depictive, the abstract, and the
psychological—came to stand for the alienation which many people felt in the modern period, combined with the
sense of reaching more deeply into the psyche, to be "made whole with one's
individuality".
Salvador Dalí(Spanish, 1904-1989)
The Persistence of Memory. 1931
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