André Breton
Salvador Dali, Lobster Telephone, 1936
The beginning of Surrealism
Sigmund Freud
Frida Kahlo
James Gleeson, The arrival of implacable gifts, 1985
The idea behind Surrealism
Surrealism
Meret Oppenheim
Joan Miró, Harlequin's Carnival, 1924-1925
Salvador Dali
James Gleeson
Leader of a new grouping of poets and artists in Paris, and the founder of Surrealism.
"They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality." Which artist said this?
Which artist covered a cup and saucer in fur?
“Surrealism is said to be the symbolic language of the subconscious; truly a universal language, it doesn’t depend on education, culture or intelligence.” Which Surrealist artist said this?
Ideas and images from their unconscious minds (or subconscious), depiction of dream worlds or hidden psychological tensions.
A movement in visual art and literature during the 20th Century.
Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, 1931
An Austrian neurologist interested in people’s dreams and memories, as well as their random thoughts and ideas. The Surrealists used some of these ideas as concepts in their artmaking.
1920s (specifically from 1924 through to World War II)
Rene Magritte, The False Mirror, 1928
Which of these Surrealist artists is Australian?
