Surrealism

 Surrealism

What is Surrealism?

Surrealism is a type of art that aims to revolutionize human experience. It uses the balance of vision of life with one that asserts the power of the unconscious and dreams . This type of art is often described as strange, beautiful, unexpected and uncanny.

Salvador Dalí was a Spanish Surrealist painter and printmaker known for exploring subconscious imagery. Arguably, his most famous painting is The Persistence of Memory (1931), depicting limp melting watches.

An example of his work:

This image sends the viewer into a dreamlike and strange universe. This artwork opposes surrealism to reality and questions the ineluctability of time. The melting clocks are the symbol for he lack of meaning and fluidity of time in the dream world. Dali used the techniques of hand-painted dream photographs. He applied the methods of surrealism, looking deep into the non-rational mechanics of his mind- dreams, imagination and the subconscious to generate the unreal forms that populate The Persistence of memory.

My examples of Surrealism:

Here are the examples of Surrealism that I took which shows the different aspects of how a person's imagination can affect ordinary objects and how different everyone sees them.