Dada and Surrealism 1916

•Founded in neutral Zurich in 1916–Group of refugees from WWI

•Overthrow authority and cultivate absurdity

•Denounce and shock

•Awaken the imagination

Jean Arp

Mountain, Anchors,

Table, Navel1925

Marcel DuchampFountain 1917

Marcel DuchampNude Descending a Staircase, No. 2

(1913)

Kurt SchwittersDas Undbild 1919

Surrealism

• A direct off-spring of Dadaism• Flourished during 1920’s and 30’s

– Began as a literary movement

• Grew out of Freudian free-association and dream analysis

• Uncover truths unreachable by logic• Improvised Art • Others created hallucinatory scenes

Giorgio De Chirico The Mystery and Melancholy of

a Street (1914)

Joan Miro 1893-1983Dutch Interior II 1920

Max ErnstThe Elephant Celebs 1921

Max ErnstThe Preparation of Glue from

Bones 1921

Max Ernst Two Children

Threatened by a Nightingale 1924

Max ErnstL'Ange du foyer ou Le Triomphe du surréalisme

1937

Marc ChagallI and the Village 1911

Salvador DaliThe Persistence of Memory 1931

Salvador DaliSwans Reflecting Elephants 1937

Salvador DaliApparition of Face and Fruit Dish on Beach

1938

Salvador DaliGeopoliticus Child Watching the

Birth of the New Man 1943

Salvador DaliSoft Construction with Boiled Beans 1936

Rene MagritteThe False Mirror 1928

Rene Magritte

The Portrait 1935

Rene MagritteGolconde 1953