Art · Painting & art movements

What did the Surrealists, from Dalí to Magritte, want to set free?

What if reason were a prison, and dreaming the only way out?

1924-19693 min read5 partsQuiz of 9 questions
Read in the app Available in 30 languages
André Breton (1869-1966) · André Breton · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction

Surrealism (1924-1969) was not only a style; it was a revolution in thought. After World War I, it set out to fuse dream and waking mind, at the point where the real and the imaginary stop fighting each other.

With Salvador Dalí and René Magritte, the movement invented a visual grammar the whole world would recognize. One dived into personal delirium, the other into cold philosophical riddles.

The rest is in the Sophia app.The remaining parts, the open-book quiz and the full glossary. Free to start; Premium unlocks everything.
  1. 21924: the manifesto and Freud
  2. 3Dalí: delirium as a method
  3. 4Magritte: the mystery of the everyday
  4. 5What Surrealism left us
Open-book quiz9 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary6 terms explained in a tap.
30 languagesThe same course, from French to Japanese.

In the same subject

All Art courses