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Sur-re-al-ism
is defined as a 20th-century literary and artistic movement that attempts
to express the workings of the subconscious and is characterized by fantastic
imagery and incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter. In
painting and sculpture surrealism is one of the leading influences of
the 20th century. Surrealists often employ abstract and fantastic shapes
and forms, with a great variety of content and technique. Members of the
movement included German artist Max Ernst, French artist Jean Arp, American
painter and photographer Man Ray, French painter André Masson, Spanish
painter Joan Miró, French-American painter Yves Tanguy, Belgian artist
René Magritte, Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti, and Catalan
painter Salvador Dalí. Ora's
Art is considered by many to be a classic example of surrealism remeniscent
of the Great Salvador Dalí (1904-1989), a Spanish surrealist
artist known for his flamboyant personal style and his disquieting interpretation
of fantastic images in meticulously rendered canvases. Among his most
famous works is Persistence of Memory (1931), a desolate landscape inhabited
by limp, melting watches (see below).
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