Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that started in the early 1920s and its
aimed at expressing imaginative dreams and visions.
During the 1936 International Surrealist Exposition, held in London, guest
speaker Salvador Dal addressed his audience, costumed head-to-toe in an
old-fashioned scuba suit, with two dogs on leashes in one hand and a
billiard cue in the other. Mid-lecture, constrained by the scuba mask, the
Spanish artist began to suffocate and flailed his arms for help. The
audience, unfazed, assumed his gesticulations were all part of the
performance. As art legend has it, the Surrealist poet David Gascoyne
eventually rescued Dal, who upon recovery remarked, I just wanted to
show that I was plunging deeply into the human mind. Dal then finished
his speechand his accompanying slides, to no ones surprise, they were
all presented upside down.

Rene
Andre Magritte -
Breton
Salvador Dail
man in a bowler
hat 1964