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Surrealism• Artists combine normally
unrelated objects and situations
• Scenes are often dreamlike or in unnatural settings
• Surrealists base most of their work on DREAMS
Lobster Phone
'The surrealist object - one that is absolutely useless from the practical and rational point of view’
Giorgio de Chirico
• Produced series of disturbing cityscapes
• Mysterious imagery
• Hidden reality thru strange juxtapositions
Ariadne, 1913
• Unreal dreamlike scenario• Allusions to ancient and modern world• Overall effect: anxiety, loneliness and abandonment