Surrealism

__Salvador__ __Dali__ In 1929 Salvador became a member of the Surrealist group. After he was expelled by it's leader, Andre Breton, in 1941, his work still reflected the influence of Surrealist thought. His work featured intellectual puzzles and visual ambiguities. His style is marked by superrealistic illusionism that is used to describe completely unrealistic subjects. One of the several works Salvador made after 1941 was // Madonna. // This piece uses classical imagery as the basis for surrealist invention. In the picture below Dali paints two different subjects with a great quantity of grey and pink dots. The large ear, which’s jagged interior surface is defined by the presence of Madonna and child. Each figure is designed to into focus at a different distance. When you look at the piece up close it looks very abstract, but from six feet away it reveals the Madonna and child. From fifty feet away, the artist called it, “the ear of an angel”. To the left of the ear, there is a detail of a cherry hanging on a string from a torn and folded piece of paper. Its shadow is cast onto the other piece of paper which has the signature of the artist. (Ali Ellis and Leah Jennings)
 * Famous quote:** have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
 * Fun fact:** during his lifetime he produced more than 1,500 paintings as well as illustrations for books and lithographs



__**Paul Klee**__ __**Quote:**__ "Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible."
 * __Fun Facts:__** Paul Klee was born in MunchenbuchseeSwitzerlandDecember 18, 1879 and died in June of 1940. He was considered both German and a Swiss painter. His works reflect his dry and sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and beliefs and his musicality. Klee married Bavarian pianist Lily Stumpf in 1906 and they had a son named Felix Paul. Klee started a diary in 1897 and kept it until 1918. In 1919, Klee applied for a teaching job at theAcademyofArtinDusseldorf. This attempt fail but he did have a major success in securing three-year contract with dealer Hans Goltz. Klee suffered from a disease, scleroderma, towards the end of his life, enduring pain that seems to be reflected in his last works of art. Klee has been variously associated with Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism, and Abstraction, but his pictures are hard to classify. ( Lauren, Samm, Kayla)