The document provides context about surrealism, which emerged as an art movement in the 1920s following World War 1 and was aimed at combining dreams and reality. It discusses key surrealist artists Salvador Dali, known for The Persistence of Memory, Max Ernst who created the surrealist technique of frottage, and René Magritte, known for paintings like The Son of Man.

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2. CONTEXT OF SURREALISM
• 1920s
• Also called the ‘Roaring Twenties’
• End of the First World War 1918
• Great depression in 1929
• Has its roots in late WWI in Paris France and takes its’ name
form a French play from 1917.

3. WHAT IS SURREALISM ABOUT?
• Surrealism is a cultural movement that was formed in the first few years of
the 1920s. Surrealism as an art style is all about creating
something, whether it be a painting or a sculpture, that would surprise
anyone who looked at it. Founder André Breton believed that above
all, surrealism was a revolutionary movement. It spread around the
world, affecting the film, music, visual arts and literature of many
countries.
• The aim of the movement was an attempt to discover a super-reality by
combining dreams and reality together
• Surrealism is a word made up by a man by the name of Guillaume
Apollinaire, who made a play featuring surrealism called Les Mamelles de
Tirésias.

4. • Salvador Dali was born on 11th May 1904
• He died on the 23rd January 1989, aged 84
• He was a skilled draftsman, and he was
known for his striking surrealist work
• His best-know artwork was The Persistence
of Memory
• Dali supported Franco’s regime in
Spain, although in his youth he thought
of himself as an anarchist and a
communist

5. • Max Ernst was born in 1891, and died at the
age of 84 in 1976
• He fought in World War 1 in both the Eastern
and Western fronts
• Ernst created a surrealist technique named frottage.
In this technique the artist takes a pencil or a drawing
tool and makes a rubbing over a textured surface
• One of Max Ernst’s most famous paintings is Two
Children are Threatened by a Nightingale

6. • René Magritte was born in 1898, and died at the
age of 68 in 1967
• René Magritte’s first surreal painting, The Lost
Jockey, was a failure. Disappointed, Magritte
moved to Paris, became friends with André Breton
and joined the surrealist group
• One of Magritte’s most famous paintings is The Son of
Man, painted in 1964