The period after World War I marked a significant shift in the history of art, and this German artist played a major role in two movements that emerged around this time. Max Ernst (1891-1976) was a pioneer of both the Dada and Surrealist art movements and invented several remarkable painting techniques. One of his most …
Surrealist paintings
One of the most famous Belgian artists in history produced thought-provoking images that have become some of the best-recognized paintings in the world. René Magritte (1898-1967) was a Surrealist artist who often depicted common objects in such a way that his paintings didn’t make sense. Although he studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in …
The simplest of images became one of the most thought-provoking paintings of the 20th century, and the Belgian artist who painted it had some explaining to do. René Magritte (1898-1967) became one of the leading Surrealist artists in history because he managed to depict seemingly common objects in a such way that it scrambles our …
Even though this Swiss artist was highly individualistic in his approach to art, he was influenced by several art movements during his career. The influences involved Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism, movements that emerged in the first half of the 20th century. Paul Klee (1879-1940) was a painter and an art theorist. He wrote an important …
Surrealism is an art movement that emerged in the aftermath of World War I and which continued to flourish well into the 1950s. Surrealist artists developed a technique that allowed the unconscious mind to produce the painting. This resulted in paintings with an illogical subject matter. André Breton (1896-1966), a French writer and poet, wrote …