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Surrealism is evolved from the earlier Symbolist and Dada art movements under the influence of Freud and Jung. The term itself means "beyond realism," denoting that there is more to experience than the calculable. Consciousness is but a thin membrane spread out over a vast ocean of subconscious impulses and unconscious forces. Significant precursors of the Surrealist movement are Hieronymus Bosch, Henry Fuseli, and Arnold Bocklin. Modern members include Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Giorgio de Chirico, M.C. Escher, Joan Miro, Max Ernst, and Alberto Giacometti. Contemporary artists working in a Surrealist mode include Michael Parkes, Rafal Olbinski, and H.R. Giger. Check out our
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Salvador Dali was born in 1904 in Catalonia in Spain, and died in 1989. He is the leading figure of the Surrealism art movement. His early work was influenced by Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro. His work is one of the first to show the influence of modern psychology, including the theories of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Other Surrealist artists influenced by Dali include Giorgio di Chirico, Rene Magritte, Man Ray, and M.C. Escher. [More...]
Rene Magritte was born in 1898 in Lessines, Belgium, and died in 1967. His mother committed suicide when he was 14. After studying art in Brussels, he worked in a wallpaper factory and designed posters and advertisements. His first exhibition of paintings in Brussels, in 1926, was a failure, after which he moved to Paris where he met Andre Breton and other figures in the Surrealist movement, including Joan Miro and Jean Arp. His work was influenced by Giorgio di Chirico and Salvador Dali, but also shows influence from Marcel Duchamp and the Dadaists, as well as anticipating the later Conceptual artists, especially in his painting, La Trahison des Images ("The Treason of Images"), featuring the realistic depiction of a pipe, but with the caption, Ceci n'est pas une pipe ("This is not a pipe"). [More...]
M.C. (Maurits Cornelius) Escher was born in 1898 in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, and died in 1972. He studied architecture, and then decorative arts, at Haarlem. After a visit in 1924, he became fascinated with the Moorish mosaics of the Alhambra in Spain. He lived in Rome from 1924 to 1935, followed by six years in Switzerland and Belgium, until in 1941 he returned to the Netherlands, where most of the artworks for which he is best known, primarily lithographs, woodcuts, and mezzotints, were produced. Many of his works feature impossible objects and optical illusions, tessellations (or repetitious tilings), and the application of mathematical concepts in visual designs. [More...]
Rafal Olbinski was born in 1945 in the Kielce, Poland, and studied art at the Warsaw Polytechnical School. He emigrated to the United States in 1982, and has been a professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York since 1985. He is especially known for his Surrealist poster designs for opera and theatre productions, which are also notable for their frequent suggestive eroticism. [More...]
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