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Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali

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Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali

The early 1920s art movement of surrealism was founded by Andre Breton a French writer . Compared to other art groups or movements , surrealism focused on evoking the unconscious in painting . Members of this group showed immense importance in illustrating a more profound reality revealed by the unconscious mind ' Most of the surrealists have unusual portrayal of images in their paintings . They create visuals that

p go beyond mere painting to reach a new level of reality ' This extraordinary approach in creating a provocative image is derived from the surrealists ' dreams . The products of their subconscious mind combined with the concept of enigma or mystery ' have been their inspiration in producing eccentric but remarkable masterpieces (Artbeyondsight .com

One of the famous Surrealist painters who is well-known for his bizarre ideas and eccentric behaviors was Salvador Dali . Most of his artworks became and integral part in the advancement of the Surrealist aesthetic His main objective was to materialize images of concrete irrationality with the most imperialist fury of precision ' More so , Dali 's paintings illustrated dream-like images but these were treated with precision and fine details that made the viewers enter a hallucinatory landscape . Dali named these paintings with dream and fantasy theme as hand-painted dream photographs ' In these artworks , unusual placement of images and the modification of a specific form into another completely new form were evident . Because...

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