Surrealism, intended to oppose Dadaist art, linked to the dramatic historical moment experienced in Europe during the years of World War I, with a reconstruction that exalted human interiority and freedom of expression.
Surrealism, intended to oppose Dadaist art, linked to the dramatic historical moment experienced in Europe during the years of World War I, with a reconstruction that exalted human interiority and freedom of expression. Alongside Dadaism in the same years, equally decisive was the spread of Giorgio De Chirico ’s Metaphysical painting, which influenced many artists in conceiving works with suspended atmospheres, surreal in fact, to grasp a supra-reality beyond the sensible appearance. Individual subjects and objects of the imagination could tie together even without logical connections, and in settings that were not necessarily verisimilar.