Surrealism

Surrealism is a movement in art and literature that originated in Paris in 1924 by André Breton, a French poet, from his Manifesto of Surrealism. The style is marked by perverse, bizarre, irrational, hallucinatory juxtapositions and non sequiturs. Surrealism employs a method of visual expression by personifying and convoluting ordinary objects and turning them into strange, severe or demented representations that provoked shock, sympathy, incomprehension and even disgust from an audience.


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Swans Reflecting Elephants
Salvador Dalí, 1937

Oil on canvas
51 × 77 cm, 20.08 × 30.31 in
private collection

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Leda Atomica
Salvador Dalí, 1949

Oil on canvas
61.1 × 45.3 cm
Dalí Theatre and Museum, Figueres, Spain

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The Disintegration of the
Persistence of Memory

Salvador Dalí, 1952-1954

Oil on canvas
25.4 × 33 cm, 10 × 13 in
Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida

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The Song of Love
Giorgio de Chirico, 1914

Oil on canvas
73 × 59.1 cm, 28 8/4 × 23 8/8 in
Museum of Modern Art, New York City

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The Disquieting Muses
Giorgio de Chirico, 1916

Oil on canvas
97.16 × 66 cm, 38 1/4 × 26 in
Private collection

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L'Ange du Foyer, ou le
Triomphe du Surréalisme

Max Ernst, 1937

Oil on canvas
146 x 114 cm
Private collection

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Europe after the Rain II
Max Ernst, 1940-42

Oil on canvas
54 x 146 cm
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

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Composition with Figures on a Terrace
Leonor Fini, 1938

Oil on canvas
99.5 x 81 cm, 39 x 32 in
Edward James Foundation Collection, Chichester, UK

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Self-Portrait
Frida Kahlo, 1940

Oil on canvas
24 1/2 x 18 3/4 in
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, Austin

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The Love Embrace of the Universe
the Earth (Mexico), Me, and Señor Xolotl

Frida Kahlo, 1949

Oil on canvas
27 1/2 x 23 7/8 in
Collection of Jorge Contreras Chacel, Mexico City

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Not to Be Reproduced
René Magritte, 1937

Oil on canvas
73 × 63.5 cm, 31.1 × 25 in
Private collection

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The Son of Man
René Magritte, 1964

Oil on canvas
116 × 89 cm, 45.67 × 35 in
Private collection

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Sun, Moon, Stars
Méret Oppenheim, 1942

Oil on canvas
48 x 51 cm, 18 7/8 x 20 1/8 in
Private collection

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Birthday
Dorothea Tanning, 1942

Oil on canvas
102 x 65 cm, 40 1/4 x 25 1/2 in
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia

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A Little Night Music
Dorothea Tanning, 1946

Oil on canvas
41 x 61 cm
Tate collection, London
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