The Dadaism & Surrealism Movement A Historical View Seen Through Art.

The Dadaism & Surrealism Movement

A Historical View Seen Through Art

Dadaism & Surrealism

“Provocative destruction, the path within and the exacerbation of the problem of a reconciliation of art and life.”

-Surrealism and Dadaism Phaidon 20th-Century Art

Dadaism

Dadaism was the product of the

disillusionment, defeatism, and insane

butchery of World War 1.

Surrealism

An early 20th-century movement in art and

literature that tried to represent the

subconscious mind by creating fantastic

imagery and juxtaposing elements that seem to

contradict each other.

Dada and Surrealist Artists

Salvador DaliRene MagritteJoan MiroMarc ChagallMax ErnstMarcel DuchampMan RayDorthea Tanning

Salvador Dali

The Persistence of Memory - 1931

The Temptation of Saint Anthony - 1946

Of all the surrealist artists, the self-proclaimed genius Salvador Dali became the most famous. Dali was not only involved in painting but also involved in surrealist films, and wrote books on his artistic theories.

Rene Magritte

Magritte was the co-

founder of the Belgian

Surrealist Movement.

He was one of the most

accessible surrealist

artists, he was also one of

the most popular.

The Human Condition 1927

Joan Miro

Miro

joined the

Surrealists

Movement

in 1924.

The Harlequin

Carnival

1924

Marc Chagall

In the Paris exhibits of

1911 and 1912, the

Russian Marc Chagall

anticipated the

development of surrealism

in his work.

I and The Village - 1911

Pablo Picasso

1881-1973

Picasso founded Cubism with Georges Braque then went on to pioneer Dada and Surrealism.He is best known for his painting Guernica, 1937. At once the most monumental and comprehensive statement of social realism against the brutality of war.

In Conclusion

The surrealist movement continues with artists of today. Recording the activities of the subconscious in their art.

Ben Fisher

Absence of

Freedom

2002