Surrealism

An Important 20th century art movement. Surrealist artists worked during the 1920’s and 1930’s. They were interested in The sub-conscious mind. They tried to express the dream world in their works of art. The art they produced was full ofBizarre objects that would not normally go together.

Salvador DaliSalvador Dali 1904-1989 born in Figuera, Spain Dali is one of the most famousSurrealist artist. He was interested in Freud's dream Psycho analysis.

Max Ernst(1891–1976) He never received any formal artistic training. In 1910-1914 he studied philosophy and psychiatry at Bonn University and took a deep interest in painting

Max Ernst, Europe After the Rain 2 (1940)(detail)

Max Ernst

Max ErnstFireside Angel1937

Max Ernst

René Magritte. Belgian surrealist painter

Magritte painted it as a self-portrait. The painting consists of a man in a suit and a bowler hat standing in front of a small wall, beyond which is the sea and a cloudy sky. The man's face is largely obscured by a hovering green apple.

However some have argued the presence of the face at all, as it believed that the apple merely represented the loss of identity.

The name is believed to have derived from the modern businessman being the son of Adam (from the Abrahamic creation story) and the apple representing temptation with which one is still faced in the modern world.

MC Esher

Frida Kahlo

FRIDA KAHLO, The Two Fridas, 1939. Oil on canvas, 68 1/4 x 68 inches. Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City.