LSG: Surrealism

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   Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. The aim was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality." 

   
   

                              -Wikipedia

   
   

   For my second Learner Survival Guide Idea I have researched into Surrealism.

   
   

   Surrealism paintings are usually made up of an irrational juxtaposition of images that are sought to release the creative potential of the subconscious mind. The surrealism movement grew out of symbolism and Dada and was strongly influenced by Psychologist Sigmund Freud.

   
   

   Most famously, Salvador Dali used  film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media to create his surrealism pieces. His most notable painting is The Persistence of Memory(1931) which features melting clocks.

   
   

   René Magritte is another artist famous for his surrealist paintings. He began to explore ways of creating a poetic, disturbing effect by depicting recognisable objects in alien settings, by startling juxtapositions or combinations of objects, by inversions of scale and so on.