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| The Son of Man (1964) by René Magritte |
Surrealism is an artistic movement that really interests me. Surrealist artworks are weird (and sometimes creepy), but they delve into the unconscious mind and make viewers to think.
Founded by the poet André Breton in Paris in 1924, Surrealism proposed that the Enlightenment—the influential 17th- and 18th-century intellectual movement that championed reason and individualism—had suppressed the superior qualities of the irrational, unconscious mind. Surrealism's goal was to liberate thought, language, and human experience from the oppressive boundaries of rationalism. The movement blurred boundaries between the conscious and the unconscious, joining the world of dream and fantasy to the rational world.
Surrealism was arguably the most extreme form of modernism.
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| Sleep (1937) by Salvador Dali |
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| The Menaced Assassin (1927) by Magritte |
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| The Persistence of Memory (1931) by Dali |
1 comment:
I think the surrealist movement is really interesting as well, Jun. I am intrigued that among many methods of modernist thinking, the surrealists focus similarly on what they think is most human, but that they believe that humanity is dictated by our subconscious. In that method of thinking, I also believe they created some of the greatest and most bizarre art.
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