Surrealism

Surrealism 1920's-1940's

Surrealism gave artists a chance to depict images of perverse sexuality, scatology, decay and violence. It also gave them the desire to

push against the boundaries of socially acceptable behaviors and traditions in order to discover pure thought and the artist's true nature.

Fundamentally, Surrealism gave artists permission to express their most basic drives: hunger, sexuality, anger, fear, dread, ecstasy, and

so forth.

Salvador Dali
-The Persistence of Memory, 1931.


-Swans Reflecting Elephants, 1937.


Rene Magritte
-The Son of Man, 1964.


-The Human Condition, 1933.

Marc Chagall
-Four Seasons, 1974.








-I and the Village