Surrealism was an artistic movement from 1924-1950 that was founded by Andre Breton. Some key artists of Surrealism included Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Georgia O'Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, and Salvador Dali. Surrealism stemmed from Dada and focused on using visual imagery from dreams and the subconscious mind to create works that were fantastical and not logically comprehensible.
2. Artists of Surrealism Giorgio de Chirico Max Ernst Georgia O’Keeffe Pablo Picasso Salvador Dali
3. Surrealism was mostly a European movement, stemming from Dada, Dada was an artistic and literary movement from 1916 through 1920. Dada was also a cultural movement focused on the rejection of the predominate standards of art through anti-art cultural works. “Dada was the groundwork to abstract art and sound poetry, a starting point for performance art, a prelude to post modernism, an influence on pop art, a celebration of anti-art to be later embraced for anarcho-political uses in the 1960’s and the movement that lay the foundation for surrealism.”-Marc Lowenthal Surrealism is a style in which visual imagery becomes fantastical visuals from the subconscious mind with no intention of making the work logically comprehensible. “I insist upon a likeness, a more profound likeness, more real than the real, achieving the surreal. This is the way I understood Surrealism, but the word had been used quite differently.“-Pablo Picasso
