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The Surrealist VI"It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute
whatever for the force and beauty of its process." -- Max Eastman
Question For You: What does Surrealism mean to you?
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The Surrealist"Surrealism is embedded in the everyday, in the daily experience." - Katharine Conley
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The Surrealist II"Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realized that the
imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality." - John Lennon
A surrealist generates creative works that exposes the inner mind in bizarre and symbolic ways.
Surrealist art depicts dream imagery and archetypal symbols derived from the unconscious.
The surrealist employs collage aesthetics as a way to tap into the subconscious.
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The Surrealist X

"Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist."-- Franz Liszt
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The Surrealist XVII

"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things

which escape those who dream only by night."-- Edgar Allen Poe

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The Surrealist V

"I guess surrealism has a draw for me because it's an unknown world.
It's a world of subconscious. Some things you can't really get your hands on very easily.
Things that are kind of nebulous and they feel like the're not completely formed.
You have to feel your way through that." -- Gotye
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The Surrealist XVIII
“Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle
between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.” ~Magdalena Abakanowicz

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The Surrealist XVI

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul,

and paints his own nature into his pictures." - Henry Ward Beecher

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The Surrealist IV"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things,
but their inward significance." -- Aristotle
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Some Key Characteristics of Surrealism:
*Emphasis on the mysterious, marvelous, mythological and irrational in an effort to make art ambiguous and strange.
*Expression of our most basic drives: hunger, sexuality, anger, fear, dread, ecstasy, and so forth.
*The desire to push against the boundaries of socially acceptable behaviors and traditions in order to discover pure thought and the artist's true nature.
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The Surrealist XIV

“Without art, the crudeness of reality
would make the world unbearable.” – George Bernard Shaw
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"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time." -- Thomas Merton

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=anjourekloos Oct 30, 2012 General Artist

surrealism is my way of coping with this rotten world, my mind makes drawings in my head all the time, surrealism comes very naturally to me. this is a gorgeous feature!!!! congrats to all the artists

*AFineWar Oct 30, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

I've always felt surrealism is a wonderful way to escape from reality, and it is one of the artforms that different viewers will connect with it differently.
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