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Surrealism

The Mystery of Yves Tanguy

Tanguy conjures expansive, non-representative, surreal landscapes. Within the composition, carefully placed shapes interact and allude to the human form, such as the group of towering grey figures in the left hand side of There, Motion has Not Yet Ceased. They appear to be threatened by the candy-cane coloured spear and you can distinguish a figure […]

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Surrealism

Automatic Drawing

Sexuality, desire and violence dominate the Surrealist’s mission to liberate the subconscious and embrace the irrational. In a beautiful, paradoxical way, the surrealists turn the intangible inner psyche empirical through heavy symbolism, écriture, juxtaposition of objects and so forth, such as Dalí’s recurring use of draws to represent the memories that can be locked away […]