ART & the UNCONSCIOUS

Paul Klee, Twittering Machine (1922)

Marc Chagall, The Birthday, 1915

Giorgio de Chirico, Melancholy and Mystery of a Street, (1914)

SURREALISM

The purpose of surrealism is “the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.”- Andre Breton, Manifesto of Surrealism (1924)

Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory (1931)

Joan Miro, Person Throwing a Stone at a Bird (1926)

Rene Magritte, Portrait (1935)

Meret Oppenheim, Fur Breakfast (1936)

Freedom of LoveAndre Breton. . .My wife with shoulders of champagneAnd of a fountain with dolphin-heads beneath the iceMy wife with wrists of matchesMy wife with fingers of luck and ace of heartsWith fingers of mown hayMy wife with armpits of marten and of beechnutAnd of Midsummer NightOf privet and of an angelfish nestWith arms of seafoam and of riverlocksAnd of a mingling of the wheat and the millMy wife with legs of flaresWith the movements of clockwork and despair. . .