Dada and Surrealism 1916 Founded in neutral Zurich

Dada and Surrealism 1916 • Founded in neutral Zurich in 1916 –Group of refugees from WWI • Overthrow authority and cultivate absurdity • Denounce and shock • Awaken the imagination

Jean Arp Mountain, Anchors, Table, Navel 1925

Marcel Duchamp Fountain 1917

Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (1913)

Kurt Schwitters Das Undbild 1919

Surrealism • A direct off-spring of Dadaism • Flourished during 1920’s and 30’s – Began as a literary movement • Grew out of Freudian free-association and dream analysis • Uncover truths unreachable by logic • Improvised Art • Others created hallucinatory scenes

Giorgio De Chirico The Mystery and Melancholy of a Street (1914)

Joan Miro 1893 -1983 Dutch Interior II 1920

Max Ernst The Elephant Celebs 1921

Max Ernst The Preparation of Glue from Bones 1921

Max Ernst Two Children Threatened by a Nightingale 1924

Max Ernst L'Ange du foyer ou Le Triomphe du surréalisme 1937

Marc Chagall I and the Village 1911

Salvador Dali The Persistence of Memory 1931

Salvador Dali Swans Reflecting Elephants 1937

Salvador Dali Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on Beach 1938

Salvador Dali Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man 1943

Salvador Dali Soft Construction with Boiled Beans 1936

Rene Magritte The False Mirror 1928

Rene Magritte The Portrait 1935

Rene Magritte Golconde 1953