salvatore dali and surrealism
To appreciate surrealism one must first understand it. Take a pen or a pencil, think for a minute, and write down the first words that come into your mind exactly as you think of them. Forget about the meaning of the words, and do not change one word for a better one; that would only interfere with the pure act of creation. Surrealism is the kind of writing that you just produced in that experiment. “In the 1920’s a group of French writers felt that one could record as accurately as possible the thoughts of the unconscious mind.”(Young 2251) However, as a result their writing made little sense to the ordinary reader. Among such senseless writing, one famous phrase “elephants are contagious,” by Paul Eluard, means little to the reader. “Unless one realizes surrealists are more interested in free expression than in making sense in the usual way.”(2251) Surrealistic painting became much more widely known than surrealistic writing in the 1920’s and 30’s. “Freud had presented some exciting discoveries about dreams- how they reveal a person’s innermost thoughts and how they relate to the unconscious mind.”(2251) Like surrealistic writers, surrealistic painters felt that art could come out of the unco
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Approximate Word count = 957
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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