Salvador Dali Art Calendars and Planners 2012
Surrealism in art
Calendars devoted to Dali who was born as Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali i Domenech, 1st Marquis of Pubol on May 11th 1904. He lived to be 84, dying January 23rd 1989. He was a flamboyant surrealist painter born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain. As the video on this page shows, he was quite the character. His mustache had become his trademark, aside from melting clocks that is. At the end of his life he lost it and became quite mad, but in the meantime he has given the world some of the mo...

Yves Tanguy - Surrealist Artist
An Introduction to the Surrealist World of Yves Tanguy
Yves Tanguy (1900-1955) was a surrealist artist who beguiled and intrigued many with his unique and haunting images, paintings unlike those of any other artist. Indeed, he is considered to represent the "purest strain" of surrealist painting, as the only great artist from the height of 1930s surrealism to be entirely self-taught. His work has inspired many others who have followed him, and still fascinates us today. Indeed, he is my favorite surrealist artist and one from whom I've drawn a gr...

SURREALISM
WHAT *IS* SURREALISM? sur·re·al·ism [suh- ree-uh-liz-uhm]noun (sometimes initial capital letter) 1927, from Fr. surréalisme (from sur- "beyond" réalisme "realism"), coined c.1917 by Guillaume Apollinaire, taken over by Andre Breton as the name of the movement he launched in 1924 with "Manifeste de Surréalisme." A style of art and literature developed principally in the 20th century, stressing the subconscious or nonrational significance of imagery arrived at by automatism or the exploitation ...