Surrealist Landscape Prints

SURREALIST STYLE

In the wake of World War I’s ravaging of Europe, artists delved into the unconscious mind to confront and grapple with this reality. Poet and critic André Breton, a leader of the Surrealist movement who authored the 1924 Surrealist Manifesto, called this approach “a violent reaction against the impoverishment and sterility of thought processes that resulted from centuries of rationalism.” Surrealist art emerged in the 1920s with dreamlike and uncanny imagery guided by a variety of techniques such as automatic drawing, which can be likened to a stream of consciousness, to channel psychological experiences.

Although Surrealism was a groundbreaking approach for European art, its practitioners were inspired by Indigenous art and ancient mysticism for reenvisioning how sculptures, paintings, prints, performance art and more could respond to the unsettled world around them.

Surrealist artists were also informed by the Dada movement, which originated in 1916 Zurich and embraced absurdity over the logic that had propelled modernity into violence. Some of the Surrealists had witnessed this firsthand, such as Max Ernst, who served in the trenches during World War I, and Salvador Dalí, whose otherworldly paintings and other work responded to the dawning civil war in Spain.

Other key artists associated with the revolutionary art and literary movement included Man Ray, Joan Miró, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Frida Kahlo and Meret Oppenheim, all of whom had a distinct perspective on reimagining reality and freeing the unconscious mind from the conventions and restrictions of rational thought. Pablo Picasso showed some of his works in “La Peinture Surréaliste” — the first collective exhibition of Surrealist painting — which opened at Paris’s Galerie Pierre in November of 1925. (Although Magritte is best known as one of the visual Surrealist movement’s most talented practitioners, his famous 1943 painting, The Fifth Season, can be interpreted as a formal break from Surrealism.)

The outbreak of World War II led many in the movement to flee Europe for the Americas, further spreading Surrealism abroad. Generations of modern and contemporary artists were subsequently influenced by the richly symbolic and unearthly imagery of Surrealism, from Joseph Cornell to Arshile Gorky.

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Style: Surrealist

Salvador Dalí, In Dark Limbo, La Divine Comédie (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200)

Surrealist Landscape Prints

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí, In Dark Limbo, La Divine Comédie (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200), 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí, The Seducers, La Divine Comédie (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200), 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí, The Ascent to Venus, La Divine Comédie (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200), 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí­, Farinata (Michler/Löpsinger 1039-1138; Field 189-200), 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí, The Celestial Staircase (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200), 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí, St. Peter and Dante, La Divine Comédie (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200), 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí, Manto, La Divine Comédie (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200), 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí, The Smoke of Irascibility, (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200), 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí, Virgil’s last words (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200), 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí, Mohammed, La Divine Comédie (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200), 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí, The Law of Climbing, La Divine Comédie (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200), 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí, The Black Cherub, La Divine Comédie (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200), 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí, The Reign of the Penitents (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200), 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí, Towards the Tree of Law (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200), 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí, The Logician Devil, La Divine Comédie (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200), 1963

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Salvador Dalí, The Proud One, La Divine Comédie (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200), 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí, The Powers of Soul, La Divine Comédie (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200), 1963

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Salvador Dalí, The Last Oratories of Virgil, Purgatory: Canto 27 (Field 189-200), 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí, Cacciaguida’s History Lesson (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200), 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí, The Divine Forest, La Divine Comédie (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200), 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí, The Prophecy of Vanni Fucci (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200), 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí, The Centaur, La Divine Comédie (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200), 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí, The Punishment of Vanni Fucci (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200), 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí, Virgil’s Admonishment (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200, 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí, The Flatterer, La Divine Comédie (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200), 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí, The Traitor of Montaperti (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200, 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí, The Sodomites, La Divine Comédie (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200), 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí­, The Neglectful Meets Violent Death (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200), 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí, The Simoniac, La Divine Comédie (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200), 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí, Ugolino and Ruggieri, La Divine Comédie (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200, 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí, The Minotaur, La Divine Comédie (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200), 1963

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Salvador Dalí, The Song of the Wise Spirits (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200), 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí, The Two Crowds of the Lustful (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200), 1963

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Salvador Dalí, Beatrice resolves Dante’s doubts (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200), 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí, In the Heaven of Mercury (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200), 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí, The Blind for Envy, La Divine Comédie (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200), 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí, A Spirit Interrogating Dante, Purgatory:Canto 14 (Field 189-200), 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí, The Triumph of Christ and the Virgin, Paradise: Canto 23, 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí, Language of the Birds, Paradise: Canto 19 (Field 189-200), 1963

1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints

Salvador Dalí, Farinata (Michler/Löpsinger 1039-1138; Field 189-200), 1963

Salvador Dalí, The Neglectful Meets Violent Death (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200), 1963

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Salvador Dalí, Gianni Schicchi’s Bite (Michler/Löpsinger 1039-1138; F. 189-200), 1963

Salvador Dalí, Charon (Michler/Löpsinger 1039-1138; Field 189-200), 1963

Salvador Dalí, The Blasphemers (Michler/Löpsinger 1039-1138; Field 189-200), 1963