In Surrealist painting there were at least two different attitudes among the artists, one part drew from subjects and objects of reality, although depriving them of logical and usual references (as is the case in dreams), and another part reached the limits of abstraction by instinctive and automatic means.
In Surrealist painting there were at least two different attitudes among the artists, one part drew from subjects and objects of reality, although depriving them of logical and usual references (as is the case in dreams), and another part reached the limits of abstraction by instinctive and automatic means. Recurrent motifs and favorite themes can be identified of each artist, which emerged through the mechanism of unconscious free associations. Nature is a frequent scenario and animals often present, in Max Ernst for example birds, in Salvador Dalí ants or eggs, in Joan Miró biomorphic figures. It is the extravagance and ambiguity of the imagery that applies to all to shake the viewer out of a comforting attribution of meaning.