Artworks Surrealism

Salvador Dali

SALVADOR DALI, LOBSTER TELEPHONE, 1936. TELEPHONE, PLASTER. THIS OBJECT SHOWS HOW DALI WOULD COMBINE EVERYDAY OBJECTS TO CREATE A DREAMLIKE EFFECT

SALVADOR DALI, THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY, 1931. OIL ON CANVAS.

  • In the PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY (24x33cm) Dali creates a barren space where time stands still.

  • A strange never-setting sun illuminates the landscape.

  • The cliffs in the distance are actually from a place in Catalonia

  • An amorphous creature sleeps in the foreground. , where he grew up.

  • This could be the face of Dali himself with long eyelashes that seem to be insect-like.

  • Dali has draped this creature with a limp pocket watch.

Joan Miro

JOAN MIRO, CARNIVAL OF HARLEQUIN, 1924-25. OIL ON CANVAS

  • A room with a window and a table are indicated and they belong more or less to the everyday world, but after that Miro’s imagination took over.

  • Bizarre assemblies of insect-like creatures play, dance and make music.

  • One of them has the suggestion of a human face with a ridiculous moustache. According to Miro: “I begin painting and as I paint the picture begins to assert itself, under my brush

Rene Magritte

RENÉ MAGRITTE, TIME TRANSFIXED, 1938. OIL ON CANVAS

  • In this painting Magritte puts together precisely and realistically painted objects that do not belong together logically .

  • He paints a smoking steam train coming out of a fireplace in a suburban room.

  • He blends together the ordinary to create a strange and disturbing scene from a nightmare

RENÉ MAGRITTE, THIS IS NOT A PIPE, 1931. OIL ON CANVAS.

  • The work, This is not a pipe, is also known as the Treachery of Images.

  • Magritte represents a meticulously painted briar pipe.

  • It looks like a real pipe, but then he writes underneath it in French that ‘this is not a pipe’, which of course it is not, it is only a painted image of a pipe .

  • With this, Magritte explores the relationship between the real world and the painted world