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If these pictures made the viewer jump the artists who painted them were satisfied. This 1920s Parisian movement, led by the poet André Breton, announced that ‘rational’ thought was no longer valid (it had led to World War I), and the ‘irrational’, in the form of dreams and the subconscious mind, was a neglected aspect of life. This novel idea made a lasting impression on all the arts. 24-page teaching notes
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- ARP, JEAN
- Terrestrial forms, 1917
- CHIRICO, GIORGIO DE
- Conversation amongst the ruins, 1927
- The uncertainty of the poet, 1913
- DALI, SALVADOR
- Impressions of Africa, 1938
- Persistence of the memory, 1931
- Premonition of Civil War, study, c. 1937
- The Sleep, 1931
- DELVAUX, PAUL
- Sleeping Venus, 1944
- DUCHAMP, MARCEL
- *Marcel, Bicycle, 1913/64
- The bride stripped bare, 1915/65
- ERNST, MAX
- Celebes, 1921
- Dadaville, 1924
- Men shall know nothing of this, 1923
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- ERNST, MAX (cont.)
- The habits of leaves, 1925-6
- HOCH, HANNAH
- Dada panorama, 1919
- MAGRITTE, RENE
- Arnheim's domain, 1943
- Galconda (an ancient ruined city), 1953
- Human condition, 1933
- The blank signature, 1965
- MAN RAY
- Observatory hour, the lovers, 1934
- MIRO, JOAN
- Head of a Catalan peasant, 1924
- Message from a friend, 1964
- People and dog in front of the sun, 1949
- NASH, PAUL
- Landscape from a dream, 1936-38
- PICABIA, FRANCIS
- This is the girl born without a mother, 1916-17
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