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ISBN/EAN: 978-3-7544-0153-8
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29.07.2026
29.07.2026
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Beschreibung
Surrealism freed art from the grip of logic. Turning instead to dreams, desire, memory, and the volatile realm of the subconscious, these five modern masters pursued the impulse of Surrealism along radically individual paths, each one arriving at a distinct creative destination. Max Ernst was the movements great experimentalist. Embracing chance, collage, and invention, he pioneered new methods of image-making in which accident and intuition were his trusted collaborators. Joan Miró developed a language of dancing symbols and radiant color, filling his canvases with poetic constellations that are both playful and cosmically charged. René Magrittes cool, cerebral wit shifted the focus to perception itself. He reveled in visual paradoxes and deadpan humor, questioning the dynamics between image, language, and reality. Salvador Dalí was infamous for his theatrical flair and virtuosic precision. His images, rendered with almost scientific clarity, turned the irrational into something uncannily tangible. Frida Kahlo was often placed at Surrealisms margins and resisted the label herself. Her fiercely personal works fused physical pain, Mexican identity, folklore, and autobiography, juxtaposing reality and fantasy in images of raw emotional force. Surrealism was never a single doctrine but a shared impulse: to ignite the imagination and dismantle the familiar. Bringing landmark works from five canonical artists together with incisive commentaries, this is both the perfect primer and a rewarding deep dive into arts dream state, where fantasy, intellect, and emotion collide.