Dada & Surrealism
Surrealism (cont.)
- Rene Magritte (1898-1967)
- nationality: Belgian
- themes: did not need to draw on hallucinations, dreams, occult phenomena, etc.
- subject: “preconsciousness” (related to data that can readily be brought to consciousness)
- style: illusionistic
- method: disjunction between context, size, or juxtaposition of objects
- effect: simplicity in his work is suspect