Surrealism

Surrealist artists were inspired by the psychoanalyst, Freud. Their subject matter usually had to do with dreams or the subconscious mind. Although the approach to painting the subject was realistic, the subject was usually not realistic. The artist would sometimes place their subjects in a strange location, for example, a surrealist artist might paint a submarine flying through the air and a plane gliding beneath the ocean. Or they might change the size of the subject, like a giant apple that filled an entire room, etc.

Artists: Rene Magritte Salvador Dali Frida Kahlo Joan Miro Marc Chagall *Influenced Paul Klee's personal style