I had the strangest dream last night…

I had the strangest dream last night…

Salvador Dali, Giraffe on Fire Rene Magritte, Boot Feet

Surrealism• Artists combine normally

unrelated objects and situations

• Scenes are often dreamlike or in unnatural settings

• Surrealists base most of their work on DREAMS

Salvador Dali

• Painted memories of

dreams and fantasies

The Persistence of Memory, 1931

• He said the idea came to him while eating cheese

• Ants, a common theme in Dali's work, represent decay

Lobster Phone

'The surrealist object - one that is absolutely useless from the practical and rational point of view’

Swans

Giorgio de Chirico

• Produced series of disturbing cityscapes

• Mysterious imagery

• Hidden reality thru strange juxtapositions

The Mystery

and Melancholy of a Street,

1914

• Dark shadows

• Mysterious figures

• Haunting dream world

• Produces feeling of loneliness and despair

• Unexplainable shadow = impending doom

Ariadne, 1913

• Unreal dreamlike scenario• Allusions to ancient and modern world• Overall effect: anxiety, loneliness and abandonment

Head/Neck

Upper Body

Stomach/Waist

Legs/Feet

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