SUR PLAY

PERSON

Surrealism emphasized the importance of experimentation and methodological research, viewing the artistic process as a means of exploring the depths of the psyche and revealing hidden truths. Person and his feelings and reflections became the central hero for surrealist works and the world.

This room discovers how artists used symbolic imagery to convey complex emotions, desires, and fears that often lie buried in the subconscious. Self-portraits, mythology, physiological distortion, metamorphosis and allegory were used as a means to explore artists’ identities, inner worlds, and subconscious minds.

OBJECT

The importance of quotidian objects for surrealists is indicated by the many classification systems, graphics, and theories that were created for and by them. It often involves unexpected combinations of objects, images, or ideas that challenge conventional logic and develop a sense of disorientation or surprise.

Juxtaposition, disjointed forms, and dislocated elements create uncanny or absurd effects that we sometimes see in our dreams and interpret as a window into the depths of the psyche, revealing hidden desires, fears, and emotions. Newly created objects became new symbols for the next 100 years.

NATURE

The surrealists praised numerous animals, plants, and stones as evidence that rich poetry was immanent in reality, modeled surrealist poetics on natural processes of growth and change, and compared the unconscious to dense vegetation teeming with animal instincts.

Their depicted landscapes undergo radical transformations, with natural elements morphing into surreal forms to evoke a sense of metamorphosis, inviting viewers to question the stability of the external world and the boundaries between nature and imagination, revealing the complex and ever-changing nature of human consciousness.