Surrealism: 1920s-1940s
Characteristics:
- Emphasis on the mysterious, marvelous, mythological and irrational to make art ambiguous and strange
- Exploration of dream and unconsciousness as a valid form of reality
- A willingness to depict images of perverse sexuality, scatology, decay and violence
Artists of the Era
Salvador Dali:
The Persistence of Memory
1931
Swans Reflecting Elephants
1937
Rene Magritte:
The Son of Man
1964
Time Transfixed
1938
Marc Chagall:
La Mariée
1950
White Crucifixion
1938
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