Surrealism Art Movement

There is an old well-know saying – man doesn't live on bread along – and this fact is easy to confirm. In course of human history there have been a lot of trends and movements in art that replaced each other and has brought us a lot of outstanding artists and their works. One of such notable periods in the history of art development was surrealism art movement in the 20th century. This movement affected different spheres of our life – music, theatre, literature, films, etc. Talking about surrealism movement such names as Salvador Dali, Giorgio de Chirico, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, Yves Tanguy, Rene Margritte, Marc Chagall should be mentioned first of all.

Surrealism, a literary and art movement, was founded in Paris in 1924. The author of the movement is André Breton whose Manifesto of Surrealism played important role in the development of surrealism. Also, such names as French poets Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire and Lautreamont should be mentioned. All of them have direct relation to the movement that is dedicated to express the imagination as it is revealed in dreams. This is an art where the emphasis is made on the unconscious and the psychological aspects.

So as to define surrealism it is needed to say that this is a cultural movement developed out of the Dada activities of World War in the early 1920s and it is well-known for the visual artworks. Dada or Dadaism cultural movement peaked from 1916 to 1920 was informal and rejected the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works. The members of the movement uphold their principles by means of gatherings, demonstrations, and publications; the ideas of Dadaism influenced visual arts, literature, theatre, graphic design, and music.

Famous surrealism artworks are «Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate One Second Before Awakening» (1944), «The Persistence of Memory» (1931), «Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of a New Man» (1943), «The Elephants» (1948) by Salvador Dali; and a number of other artworks created by other famous painters. In fact, surrealism art movement was not concentrated at one place only, it reached many countries and languages that's why the list of famous surrealism artworks can be continued endlessly.

It was really revolutionary movement as it's leader Andre Breton mentioned – the movement spread around the globe and impacted on political thought, philosophy and social theory. The movement didn't disappeared without a trace. The impact of the movement was so strong that it's features can be noticed on today's popular culture.

These days there are also artists worldwide that also create their paintings in this very style. The artists carry on the tradition and the principles of the movement. One of such contemporary painters, Valeriy Klinkov, provides his collection on the site and everyone willing to have surrealism painting can obtain a work directly from the painter. Find out painting in sale on this web site!