Are You Surreal?

Unleash your subconscious mind and check these 11 art pieces from the Surrealism movement.

Growing out of the Dada Movement, the Surrealism movement began in the 1920s in rebellion against accepted conventions in art. Influenced by Freud and his dream work, as well as hallucinations, subconscious, and myth, it includes artists and writers, like Salvador Dali, Max Ernst and Rene Magritte, whose artistic methods experiment with ways to unleash the subconscious imagination and alter reality…

“The Surrealist artists sought to channel the unconscious as a means to unlock the power of the imagination. Disdaining rationalism and literary realism, and powerfully influenced by psychoanalysis, the Surrealists believed the rational mind repressed the power of the imagination, weighting it down with taboos. Influenced also by Karl Marx, they hoped that the psyche had the power to reveal the contradictions in the everyday world and spur on revolution. Their emphasis on the power of personal imagination puts them in the tradition of Romanticism, but unlike their forbears, they believed that revelations could be found on the street and in everyday life. The Surrealist impulse to tap the unconscious mind, and their interests in myth and primitivism, went on to shape many later movements, and the style remains influential to this today.” The Art Story

Here are 11 pieces selected… There are a lot so please explore elsewhere!

Kay Sage: I Saw Three Cities, 1944