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Dali and Surrealism
24 minutes
Color
Recommended audience age range 18-adult
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Availability:
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Additional information
Order number: 567B
`As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table,' Surrealism aimed to free the artist from the dictates of moral, aesthetic or intellectual concerns, to create from the unhampered subconscious. During the late 1920s and early 1930s, Salvador Dali became one of the leading Surrealists, producing memorable Surrealist images such as the famous `soft watches.' But although Dali and the Surrealists shared an interest in the functioning of the subconscious, and in subverting traditional realism, in other ways they diverged widely: some at least of the Surrealists were aiming at an art which could be practiced by anyone, without training, and this was part of their attempt to link the movement with Marxism, whereas Dali continued to base his work on fine technique - and eventually returned to the Catholic Church.
Credits -
Director
Robert Philip
Presenter/Writer
David Batchelor
Open University/BBC
