Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.
The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure.
Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.
Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.
I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.
Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him; he was funny.
As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But by the early '60s, it had become petit-bourgeois; it was too intellectual and romantic, and had ground to a halt. It had become respectable.
Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
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