Art with no borders for imagination
The Moscow Historical Museum has opened a retrospective display of graphic works by Surrealist artists.
From De Chirico to Dali and Magritte, the display offers a chance to explore the development of one of the most expressive and long-lasting cultural movements.
The display, entitled "The Collective Subconcious", looks into the history of Surrealism that in fact emerged from works of literature. French poet and writer André Breton is considered the father of Surrealism. After the World War I he and some of his spiritual friends/writers began to practice writing without censoring their thoughts and published the writings, as well as accounts of dreams. Their main principal was "no borders to imagination."
This principal was supported by numerous artists and writers, such as Pierre Naville, Paul and Gala Éluard, Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, Hans Arp, André Masson, Joan Miró, Marcel Duchamp and others. Artists started developing the principal that the subconscious was the cornerstone in developing methods to free imagination
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