Salvador Dali 

The Persistence of Memory 

Surrealism

-        best known work

-        small painting of soft objects that represent things that are usually metallic and hard

-        came to him while eating soft cheese

-        limp watches, gigantic ants, partial face on plain of immense depth

-        rejected abstraction and any other form of simplified art

Marc Chagall

I and the Village 

Fantasy

subject is the Russia of fun-loving peasants, folklore and fairy tales he remembers

reality is mixed with happy memories

cow dreams happily of a milkmaid

lovers, village houses, and a green faced man holding a plant are also subject matter 

Chagall said “I do not understand them at all. They are not literature. They are only pictorial arrangements of images which obsess me.”worked in many media

Giorgio de Chirico

The Mystery and Melancholy of a Street

Fantasy

-        part of a series of crisp, clean, and strange and disturbing cityscapes

-        has buildings of tremendous solidity that are lit from the side so that long shadows are cast

-        small figures produce a feeling of loneliness and despair

-        appear to be last left in a deserted city

-        sense of impending doom

-        there are often unexplained, ominous shadows

Paul Klee

Twittering Machine 

Fantasy

-        settled in Munich in 1911 and joined the Der Blue Reiter while working in near poverty

-        later taught at the Bauhaus and was a close friend of Kandinsky

-        interested in children’s art

-        happy quality

-        exercise in imagination

-        perhaps bird sounds are produced if handle is turned

Jean (Hans) Arp

Birds in an Aquarium 

Dada

-        Born in Strasbourg which was sometimes German or French

-        Made collages by cutting bits of paper and floating them to floor

-        glued to paper

-        protest against the design quality and emotional expression of previous art

-        biomorphic relief sculpture

-        suggests image