Thinking Beyond Conscious Mind... Surrealism

It is said that Surrealism branched off of Dada, which you can see in my previous blog, and it is very much true. Although this time it the art had some what of a beauty to and meaning to the art it still had a very bizarre taste. The Surrealists were very anti- war just like Dadaists but also were anti-modern, meaning that they did not like the modern world and what it was becoming and wanted it to be more of man and nature not man and technology. Surrealists believed that they could create art within a subconscious state and without the intention of logical comprehensibility, in other words the artists had no idea what they were doing while they were painting. The founder of Surrealism is Andre Breton and the philosophy of Surrealism was officially created in 1924 with a majority of the artists coming for Dadaism. On an interesting note Surrealism aligned with the theories of Communism and anarchism. Why? Who knows but if you look at this quote from the most famous Surrealist artist, Salvador Dali, it does seem to make it all better "There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."

If you are interested about the Surrealist artists and their works:
http://www.surrealism.org/

Until I post again,

Tkoto

A really remarkable painting by Salvador Dali.

"The Ship"