Dada & Surrealism
Surrealism: de Chirico (1888-1978)
- original member of the Dada movement
- style: prototype for Surrealism
- rejects Impressionism
- disregards experiments of Fauves & Cubists
- themes: isolation & sense of foreboding
- perspective: exaggerated yet deceptively rational space
- light/shadow: strongly cast (derivative of chiaroscuro”)
- motifs: architectural settings, mannequins & trains