I love surreal art, and I get most of my ideas from vinatage books, such as Alice in wonderland.
Because it suited his ideas.
He lived the surrealist ideas and created art accordingly, perhaps more convincingly than any of his fellow artists.
Pop artists got their ideas from anything, mostly from consumtional items such as campells.
It was originally intended to by a literary movement, but painters soon realised that the ideas could be used in pictorial art.
André Breton started Surrealism in 1924 with his 'Manifesto du Surréalisme'. It was the Surreal the artists were looking for to express, and founded this mainly in the Subconscious, discovered by Freud. Surrealism is an art movement in which one's dreams, nightmares, subconsciousness and fantasy inspire the final works.
Literature and pictorial art would be more interesting if the artists sought to express subconscious ideas and feelings.
The modern artists were most heavily influenced by War and science, it changed the way people thought and changed the type of art that was comming out at this time.
The object of Surrealism is to fathom the unconscious. In order to do this artists used their dreams and free association.
Rene Magritte and Salvador Dali
Because it suited his ideas.
Surrealism is a movement based on dreams and dreaming. Surrealism exists in contrast to reality. What we know to be true must be questioned in Surrealism. Look at any painting by Salvador Dali. His paintings are based in a world that is not our own. Essentially Surrealism is founded in a stark contrast to all paintings before them. Before, paintings were of reality or of things that could possibly exist. Surrealism strove to break the mold of what the world essentially understood to be "Art". Art was no longer the replication of reality on a canvas; instead, it became a creative outlet of the imagination of the Surrealist artists. Surrealism was about dreams, imagination, and the opposite of reality.
Quite true.
He lived the surrealist ideas and created art accordingly, perhaps more convincingly than any of his fellow artists.
Pop artists got their ideas from anything, mostly from consumtional items such as campells.
they got their ideas from the greeks and romans.
Artists find that their greatest work is made by being able to express their ideas. The freedom to express those ideas is what they value most when creating their works. This has been shown in history of art and their artists.
Surrealism followed many of the main ideas set by the Dada movement. According to James Voorhies in the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History hosted on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's webpage: "The cerebral and irrational tenets of Surrealism find their ancestry in the clever and whimsical disregard for tradition fostered by Dadism a decade earlier."