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Salvador Dalí was pretty popular for his artwork in surrealism. He was highly imaginative. In 1931, he painted one of his most famous works, The Persistence of Memory. This painting introduced a surrealistic image of soft melting pocket watches. The interpretation that I got from his work is that time is rigid and is forced out of shape. 

Giorgio de Chirico was an artist that founded the scuola metafisica  art movement, which influenced the surrealists. The Song of Love is one of the most famous works of de Chirico and an example of the early surrealist style. It depicts an outdoor setting with a small wall that has a main focus of a mounted Greek sculpted head. 

 

Max Ernst was another popular surrealist painter. The Elephant Celebes is one of Ernst’s most famous surrealist works he did in 1921 and was “undoubtedly the first masterpiece of Surrealist painting in the De Chirico tradition.” 

• The surrealist art movement occurred in the early 1920’s. Surrealism developed out of the activities during World War 1. It started in Paris then the movement spread around the world affecting the visual arts, literature, film, and music.

• The surrealist movement occurred because of negative reactions to the horrors of World War 1.

• Most surrealist artists were from Paris.

• It is important for our culture and imaginations, for artists to provide such imagery to the public because the images make us think more about how those things work together in that strange way. It provides us with a bigger imagination.